Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

Called Course Kit, the new tool, announced today, lets students upload their work by tapping into their Google Drive account. Instructors can then use Drive and Google Docs to grade assignments and share course materials. Google is not the only major tech company that has pushed updates in the education space these past few months.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

But as the company itself will tell you, it didn’t spring up overnight. While post-pandemic growth has slowed as schools resume in-person learning, the company is still flush with cash, reporting over $1 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2021. In the future, there may be many such companies piggybacking off Zoom’s popularity.

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Online Learning Gamification Blackboard Company 218

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

For example, despite increased activity on the platform—concurrent users on the Canvas LMS were up 60 percent from typical use patterns and video submissions are up tenfold from typical use patterns pre-Covid-19—the costs of moving more data and training more educators will keep the company from a short-term windfall, Benson says.

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LMS Blackboard Company Moodle 95

ProfHacker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

I’ve never been a fan of Blackboard, the monolithic learning management system that’s the standard at so many schools. Recently, however, my attitude changed (slightly) when a colleague introduced me to BB Grader, a free iPad app for Blackboard designed to make the grading process in Blackboard mobile-friendly.

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Blackboard LMS Android iPad 40

eSchool News

JULY 21, 2015

Blackboard is launching a new platform, called the New Learning Experience, which aims to bring together all of its various products and services under one roof, with the goal of making it seem more focused on students and learners, not administrators. The company describes the new platform as a simplification of its existing offerings.

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Blackboard LMS Learning Mobility 40

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. Jay Sample, says that as technology and education evolve, more courses are relying on learning systems to deliver content or facilitate discussions.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

And it doesn't help, of course, that there is, in general, a repudiation of history within Silicon Valley itself. By "many people," of course I mean Jared and Ivanka. We already have, of course. Do the math there on the per course costs.) The former would pay $200 a course; the latter $250.

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Blackboard Coursera LMS ProctorU 96

ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 24, 2019

Dusty blackboards, smudged overhead projectors, and over saturated photocopies - Surely this sounds like many people’s education experience. Thus far, adaptive learning has been largely experimental, with companies and competitors having spent the past couple of years working out the kinks and engaging in small-scale execution.

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Trends Gamification Adaptive Learning LMS 397

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As early excitement about Zoom gave way to questions and concerns about privacy, security and unequal access, other companies seized the opportunity to elbow their way into the new competition for digital communication tools appropriate for preschoolers and college students alike. But Zoom has held on. Here’s what we learned.

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Company Education Kaplan Learning 174

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

companies reached a record $130 billion in 2020 , or up 14 percent from 2019. edtech companies that support educators and learners across preK-12, postsecondary and workforce education. edtech companies selling their services directly to consumers. A report from CB Insights showed that investments for all venture-backed U.S.

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EdTech Coursera Company Industry 190

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

It may not be the only publicly traded edtech company to be taken private. That led to record-setting traffic for many providers—along with a flurry of pitches from companies trying to capitalize on the moment (annoying more than a few school leaders in the process). Valuation, Course Hero Joins the Edtech Unicorn Stable.

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EdTech Coursera Udemy LMS 92

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2021

For counselors, there are application management trackers, a communication dashboard, course planners and other administrative tools for meeting state reporting compliance requirements. This path has led the Austin-based company to compete head-on against one of the most established players in the business: Naviance.

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Blackboard Company Industry System 149

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

By offering high-quality, affordable online courses and programs, coupled with tuition assistance, ASU and Starbucks enabled thousands to become degree holders—debt free. This has laid the infrastructure to support new instructional tools, many built by new companies that have emerged to compete with traditional print publishers.

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Trends EdTech Education Company 165

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Marissa's passion for education came early in her career when she was producing "edutainment" CD-ROM products for The Learning Company. Higher education institutions, edtechs and learning companies are using Alexa to enhance experiences for students and provide access to information and learning resources in a more convenient way.

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Technology Kickboard Education Coursera 176

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. Now, as a publicly traded company with more than 1,200 employees, things are different. We can’t be the “not Blackboard” company.

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Blackboard LMS Company Data 105

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

NovoEd traces its roots to Stanford University, where engineering professor Amin Saberi and Farnaz Ronaghi, then a PhD student, launched their first online course in 2012. In those days the platform was called Venture Lab, and 78,000 students from 150 countries signed up for its first course, which was on technology entrepreneurship.

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Online Learning MOOC Coursera Blackboard 99

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

when it comes to the LMS software that serves as the virtual classroom, online gradebook and other functions used in just about every college course these days. The company says its tools are used by more than 30 million people across the education and corporate learning markets. Canvas has the largest market share in the U.S.

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LMS Company Software Blackboard 143

Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

Developing my first online courses alongside my department was very much a humbling experience. I remember scrambling to learn all I could about the features of Blackboard and reviewing all of my textbook’s eLearning-related ancillaries, assigning self-paced modules and online quizzes to my students. What can you hold on to?

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Digital Learning Blackboard Course Exercises 174

Hack Education

OCTOBER 2, 2018

This story – that school hasn’t changed in a hundred or more years – has a corollary, of course: one that contends that this unchanging system was modeled on the factory. Why blackboards? When blackboards? What kinds of pedagogical practices led to the adoption of blackboards?

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Blackboard Khan Academy System Technology 111

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

Freitas (Garden of English, LLC) Most Innovative Ed Tech Company Age of Learning, Age of Learning, Inc. on behalf of CDWG Best Science Instructional Solution for Grades PK–8 STEMscopes Science, Accelerate Learning Inc. Freitas, Timothy G. Shift iQ, InSite Information Systems PowerSchool, PowerSchool Realityworks, Inc., Realityworks, Inc.

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IXL Learning Technology Pearson Education 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Branded eventually as Blackboard, it was the market leader in the U.S. and Canada for some time, and even today the company is in second place, with DTL Brightspace, a Canadian firm, close behind. Years before the University of Phoenix launched its first online course in the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Online Learning Learning Mobility Blackboard 117

The Electric Educator

JANUARY 17, 2011

After interviewing many prospective companies I became frustrated with the lack of innovation and impressiveness of their products. This content provider has top-notch content for virtual schools and their crown jewel, Teacher Space , which enables virtual instructors to modify course content on the fly based on the needs of their students.

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Company CMS Camtasia Blackboard 71

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs.

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Coursera Personalized Learning Learning Blackboard 105

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In our latest “New Gig Hotseat,” the Blackboard alum opens up about about education access, kegerators and what it means to put the “Ed” in NovoEd. It was also licensed as the core of Blackboard’s content management system. After our acquisition by Blackboard, I continued to be involved in a variety of educational technologies.

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Blackboard Company System Accessibility 60

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2018

Milliron stressed that the early-warning systems have worked at some colleges his company studied. Companies like Blackboard and Canvas offer the feature, though it is up to the university or professor whether to turn such dashboards on or off. “I And she left. And you can understand that.”

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Blackboard System Course Data 103

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2018

Advancement Courses has more than 200 graduate level online PD courses for K-12 teachers. Go to advancementcourses.com/coolcat and use the code COOL20 at checkout for 20% off any course. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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Facebook Social Media Education Learning 166

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Nufio, a senior and Spanish major at Denison University, is one of hundreds of students testing out a new way to manage courses and communication at the small liberal arts institution outside Columbus, Ohio. based company provides a central platform where students can find and share information for all of their courses and extracurriculars.

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Facebook System Blackboard LMS 60

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. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. billion in 2010.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 158

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. More than 4 out of 10 college students wind up in remedial math or English courses, and those that do are even less likely than other students to finish college.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 215

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Where previously the university saw about 350-400 incarcerated individuals enroll in courses each semester, more than 2,100 students are enrolled for the summer semester this year. Several have started their own companies. About 200 inmates are enrolled in related courses each quarter, she adds.

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Technology Laptops Education Blackboard 124

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Canvas , whiteboards and a company called Blackboard. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. Switches, routers, panels and projectors. Cornhole, crane games, magic shows and light-up swords.

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Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. Sink or swim. million students. The LMS market today is valued at $9.2

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 124

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

That’s starting to change, though, as more companies and campuses create technology-augmented advising systems like predictive analytics, self-service course registration platforms and early-alert tools. Their campus is now working to add to its arsenal EduNav, a degree-planning platform where students will register for courses.

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Tools Mobility Data System 93

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

BENCHMARK EDUCATION COMPANY ADVANCEALL ( benchmarkeducation.com ) Benchmark Education Company (BEC) released Advance ALL, a new series motivating students to read with literary and informational reading text sets. The course takes students up to four hours and can be completed over several weeks.

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Epson Blackboard Pearson STEM 50

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I was a speaker today at the #AgainstSurveillance teach-in , a fundraiser for Ian Linkletter who is being sued by the online test-proctoring software company Proctorio. The LMS is an administrative tool, designed at the outset to post course materials online in such a way that the institution, not the open web, could control access.

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Software LMS Microsoft Company 132

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.) The Flipped Classroom".

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

If you are an Uber fan, time to get to know how the company really operates and question whether they deserve your business. Tagged on: April 21, 2017 Google on disrupting the education system | Marketing Week → Google has unveiled plans to use its Squared Online course to disrupt the education system. Oh, and unroll.me

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170