Marketplace K-12

JULY 5, 2016

In the latest dealmaking news, Workday acquired online learning platform Zaption, while Blackboard teamed with Dreamit to support ed-tech startups. Dreamit, Blackboard Partner to Support Startups : Startup accelerator Dreamit and Blackboard Inc. Dreamit is currently accepting applications for the next cohort.

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Blackboard Company Industry EdTech 53

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

In today’s K-12 education ecosystem, most classroom management tools have moved online. The first ‘lite’ option that most educators think of is Google Classroom. If you have an LMS you love, Google Classroom often won’t work well with it because it isn’t well-aligned with industry standards.

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Moodle Google Classroom LMS 155

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017.

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EdTech Chegg Udemy Company 182

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

Gone are the days when teachers had to drag TVs into classrooms to let students watch films. Now, nearly every classroom is at least equipped with a screen and projector. Additionally, Chron reports that some schools have even replaced the usual blackboard and whiteboard with smartboards this year. Video-assisted Learning.

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Trends EdTech MOOC Learning Analytics 246

Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

It turned out that Blackboard Collaborate, the LMS that WBU’s Anchorage satellite campus uses, is not compatible with Safari, the internet browser the student was using. Using TechReady.io, students are able to test classroom technology before they set foot on campus. Jay Sample says TechReady.io TechReady.io

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 29, 2018

based 21st Century Cyber Charter School (21CCCS), teachers and administrators rely on learning tools such as Edmentum’s Study Island , Blackboard Collaborate and Moodle to identify student needs and trends. The classroom is no longer the anchor it used to be,” Nuland says. For instance, at the Downingtown, Pa.-based At K12 Inc.,

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Outcomes Data Blackboard Moodle 268

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It's entertaining, I guess — the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that. I talk a lot about the problems of industry when it comes to ed-tech — how venture capital and venture philanthropy have enormous influence on shaping the direction of education policy. " Let's not forget that.

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Blackboard Coursera LMS ProctorU 96

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

When Instructure was a fledgling at the turn of this decade, it proudly branded itself as a rebel with a cause—to become the anti-Blackboard by building a better learning management system. It flagship product, Canvas, has overtaken Blackboard in the North American higher education market, and is gaining adoption in K-12 as well.

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Blackboard LMS Company Data 107

edWeb.net

JULY 2, 2020

In a recent edWebinar sponsored by Blackboard, Dr. Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow, and Chris O’Neal, a former teacher and current Blackboard Solutions Engineer, shared front-line stories and tips to provide insight into how to ensure continuity of learning for our students during this unprecedented time. Dr. Julie A.

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Online Learning Blackboard Learning Social Media 85

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

Meta’s learning offering could be most trouble for other tech behemoths like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams, according to some speculations. Either way, Meta’s possible entrance into the market plays into a long-standing fear of big tech in the edtech industry.

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Facebook Course EdTech Video 120

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

WASHINGTON (PRWEB) — In celebration of the 38th annual SIIA CODiE Awards, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced Education Technology finalists. The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. and globally. Congratulations to all of this year’s finalists.”

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IXL Learning Technology Pearson Education 62

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And despite some “uneven” progress in recent years, STEM fields are just not as diverse as industry leaders would like. But students in these classrooms confronted the problems they wanted to solve first, only getting the equations after the curiosity had set in. But the impact the educators hope for reaches beyond the classroom, too.

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Training Course STEM Social Media 218

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The education industry didn’t. Former Blackboard CEO Raises $16M to Bring LMS Features to Zoom Classrooms. “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” so the saying goes. In fact, many capitalized on it in 2020. US Edtech Raises $803M in First Half of 2020 As COVID-19 Forces Learning Online. to Recreate In-Person Learning, Online.

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EdTech Coursera Udemy LMS 93

Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Some people even lobby for a right to technology for every student, in the hope of making the presence of laptops and tablets in classrooms as spread as that of blackboards and notebooks. This post was originally published on eLearning Industry , on June 18, 2016.

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Gamification Social Media Smartphone Tablets 234

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Broadband penetration in K-12 schools reached over 98 percent , while low-cost computing devices like Chromebooks have proliferated in classrooms. Edtech providers are as vulnerable as their peers in other industries. Education technology reached a tipping point in the last decade.

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Trends EdTech Education Company 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

So goes the origin story of many education startups born this year, like ClassEDU, which raised $16 million to put some oomph in Zoom classrooms. It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. The couple is no longer with Coursera, which is now valued at $2.5

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Coursera Personalized Learning Learning Blackboard 108

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Before that, she founded education advisory company Quantum Thinking, was an entrepreneur-in-residence and senior fellow at the Gates Foundation, and worked for Kaplan, Pearson, Ellucian, Blackboard and Oracle. “I Even as students go back to the classroom, the world is open to them now,” Keehn says. I like early market.

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techlearning

MAY 22, 2018

LTI Advantage streamlines key classroom management tasks and making it easier to integrate multiple sources of digital tools and content. LTI Advantage streamlines key classroom management tasks and making it easier to integrate multiple sources of digital tools and content.

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Edmentum Blackboard Learning Industry 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2018

It’s been quite a year for education news, not that you’d know that by listening to much of the ed-tech industry (press). And yet the education/technology industry (press) still maintained that blockchain would surely revolutionize the transcript and help insure that no one lies about who they are or what they know.

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Technology Industry Education Robotics 110

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Working in conjunction with the Michigan Department of Education and Emmy Award Winning Director, Allyson Rockwell, the Mason-Lake and Oceana ISDs are working on a documentary film chronicling the success in the pilot kindergarten and second grade iPad classrooms in Ludington, Michigan. Log in at [link]. psid=2011-09-29.1440.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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iPad Blackboard Classroom Elementary 74

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 11, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). If you do, then the Mini-Geek Fest is here for you! Join co-hosts Kim Thomas and Peggy George in AzTEA Elluminate from the comfort of your own home.

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Blackboard ePortfolio Industry STEM 44

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Pierre Pica will introduce his math, language, cognition studies with peoples in tribal and industrial societies.

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Blackboard Digital Citizenship Conference iPad 43

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2017

For the 39 months in between, we lived in the era of flashlight apps, an industry worth billions of dollars. Surely, to most it must sound like the industry has it figured out. They are often offered as “unbundled” features, yet they are the basic building blocks relevant for any classroom and discipline, regardless of geography.

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LMS Sakai iPhone Moodle 60

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Over the last two years, Google has taken its popular applications and outfitted it for the classroom. While many schools and districts continue to use existing learning management systems, such as Blackboard, Canvas , Moodle and Schoology , Google’s Classroom platform is increasingly catching teachers’ eyes.

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System Google Schoology LMS 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 15, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Come join us and share in this exciting use of technology in the classroom. link] POWER OF PROJECTS ( Classroom 2.0

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Blackboard ePortfolio Secondary Google 43

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. Neck and neck for the top spot in the LMS academic vendor race are Blackboard—the early entry and once-dominant player—and coming-up quickly from behind, the relatively new contender, Canvas, each serving about 6.5 Sink or swim.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 126

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

ASU+GSV Summit , now in its eighth year, has assembled yet another potent cocktail of education industry stakeholders from different walks of life. Take Blackboard , which has bought 15 companies since 2014. And G Suite for Education and Google Classroom far outpace Microsoft’s offerings (68 to 17 percent). edtech industry.

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Pearson Microsoft Company EdTech 78

Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2018

She stayed with her Facebook group method her first two years of teaching there, but stopped once the school started using Google Classroom. In higher education, learning management systems including Blackboard, Canvas and Moodle have taken on these functionalities. Jackson now teaches at Zurich International in Switzerland.

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Facebook Social Media Moodle Edmodo 76

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Technological minutiae in the classroom carry such immense consequences that it can be hard to think beyond tomorrow’s software update, nevermind next year’s LMS rollout. The central stage featured a projector screen the size of several blackboards, a live band and a variety of furniture for interviews. But Now, Back to the Classroom.

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Robotics Blackboard LMS Libraries 87

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

He also knew that the notion of introducing what he called “learning engineers” would face resistance from faculty convinced they already knew perfectly well what they were doing in their classrooms. “A A substantial part of the nation’s resources are being devoted to higher education,” Simon said.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 216

ViewSonic Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

By incorporating creativity into the classroom, students can gain a renewed enthusiasm for learning and develop skills for their future careers. Therefore, utilizing creativity in classroom design and activities is a powerful tool for improving the well-being of students.

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Outcomes Gamification Blackboard Classroom 317

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

To mark the 20th anniversary of Blackboard, one of the first LMSes, the company’s co-founder, Matthew Pittinsky, wrote an epic blog post about the company’s history, which includes his advice for today’s edtech leaders. At Blackboard we packaged learning management into three tiers. In fact, the notion emerged about two decades ago.

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Blackboard Company Pearson LMS 98

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

To adopt test proctoring software is to enrich an unethical industry. Zoom, for example, was not designed for classroom use (although Stanford University was, interestingly, its first paying customer); it was designed to facilitate remote business meetings. And I should add that it was designed rather poorly for even that.

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Software LMS Microsoft Company 132

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

Date : Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].

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Blackboard Secondary System Software 49

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. The edtech industry made big strides during this era.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 159

Hack Education

JULY 5, 2019

Teaching machines never sat on every desk in every classroom in America. In “Elroy’s Mob,” a scene at the Little Dipper School opens with Elroy talking through a math problem written on the blackboard. .” That verb “claimed” makes it sound like this was a promise unfulfilled.

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Robotics Course Blackboard Elementary 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

You don’t need to be an expert in the Blackboard Collaborate platform to help (we give you training and then live help at the time), but it makes a HUGE different to presenters to have a moderator helper in their session rooms, and we try to make sure there is one for every session! Sears, M.A.,

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