Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Specifically, he tried to get into some of the learning and student management systems built by Blackboard and Follett, which are two of the most widely used edtech systems in the country. EdSurge: The student reported the security holes to both companies. Blackboard didn’t respond either, which also frustrated him.

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System EdTech Industry Blackboard 132

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 110

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 187

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

AUGUST 24, 2020

I've spent over 20 years designing user experiences for tech companies, parents, schools and children. She cites a recent example of teaching students how to draw and analyze scales for bar graphs. The impact was even worse for low income and African American students.

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Learning Blackboard Collaborative Learning Chromebook 213

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Perhaps it is because of the myth of the entrepreneur that resounds throughout popular culture: examples like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, who both dropped out of college, and in doing so, seemingly spurned education in order to build major tech companies—and yet now each have education initiatives of their own. Blackboard Inc.,

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Education LMS Moodle EdTech 83

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In Canada, for example, about two-thirds of colleges offer online degrees —and many have for years. 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. I’ve always thought of the U.S.

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Online Learning Learning Mobility Blackboard 127

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 1, 2017

It could be Google Classroom, it could be Schoology, it could be Blackboard, it could also be Microsoft OneNote. VICKI: So give me some examples. You’ve already given the beginning of the school example where people introduce themselves. Are there some other cool examples for this tool?

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Comparison Schoology Tools Video 273

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

Over 500 education technologists from companies and districts gathered last week in Denver for the IMS Learning Impact meeting , hosted by the IMS Global Consortium. For example, a educator who is making a restaurant reservation on OpenTable may be delighted to see if their Facebook friends have eaten at that restaurant.

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Data EdTech Meeting Blended Learning 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

With the Notebowl implementation, Denison is working closely with the company to tailor the platform to its needs, specifically managing all of the administrative work that goes into teaching, learning and campus life at the institution. I used maybe 10 percent of what you could do in Blackboard. The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based

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Facebook System Blackboard LMS 60

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. Real world examples, not hypotheticals here. To adopt test proctoring software is to enrich an unethical industry.

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Software LMS Microsoft Company 132

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

One example of an institution working to expand its effort is Ashland University in Columbus, Ohio. Several have started their own companies. A similar Blackboard product takes the same approach: “It uses a secure channel over the internet but is not the internet,” Marshall says.

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Technology Laptops Education Blackboard 133

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

That would mark a turning point for the San Francisco-based company, which launched five years ago selling teacher observation and evaluation tools to districts. Prior to joining BloomBoard he was an executive at Blackboard and CEO of Reliance Communications, the parent company of SchoolMessenger (now owned by West Corporation).

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Digital Badges Student Data Privacy Blackboard Company 67

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. education technology companies each year for the past three years. billion in 2010.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 161

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

The university already looks at student data such as grades or how frequently a student interacts with Blackboard, the school’s instructional platform. Mitchelson says the school hopes to bring that number up to 85 to 90 percent. These systems capture structured data that Mitchelson believes the school is “probably well equipped to analyze.”

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Data Blackboard Policies Study 79

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2018

The university already looks at student data such as grades or how frequently a student interacts with Blackboard, the school’s instructional platform. Mitchelson says the school hopes to bring that number up to 85 to 90 percent. These systems capture structured data that Mitchelson says the school is “probably well equipped to analyze.”

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Data Blackboard Policies Study 77

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 18, 2013

Take, for example, Jay''s "Why is this topic important?" Date : Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Recording: A full Blackboard Collaborate recording is at https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?

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Blackboard Learning Training Conference 58

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

What’s more, for each of these choices, there are additional decisions about which media to use (video, audio, hands-on), whether to give concrete examples, and more. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. Even in more normal times, Newkirk’s overall strategy has limitations.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 217

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

According to Katie Blot, who recently joined Vemo as chief operating officer, the company has its sight set on growing the number of traditional colleges and universities it partners with. says Blot, who joined Vemo after working as the chief strategy officer at Blackboard.

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Policies Outcomes Blackboard Company 63

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

What students won’t see in the promotional materials or when they register, however, is that the programs are being managed by a private, for-profit company called Noodle that is being paid $12,000 to $22,000 per month , per program, plus $88 per credit hour, per student, according to a list of fees disclosed by Noodle.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

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 million students. The LMS market today is valued at $9.2

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 130

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Moodle, Schoology, Blackboard and Summit round out the top five.) The idea that MAPLE exists to help LearnLaunch-affiliated companies sell products to schools “couldn’t be further from the truth,” says Klau. Last week, MAPLE released its first report: a. The fox is guarding the henhouse,” the MTA letter reads. This is wrong.”.

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Personalized Learning Learning Moodle Secondary 75

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2020

During the virtual summer training, corps members taught reading and literacy virtually to children in grades K-3 through the student-coaching company Springboard Collaborative, as a way to practice engaging with students, working through lessons, setting and reaching goals, and meeting with parents and families.

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Training Blackboard Video Online Learning 146

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 9, 2017

Check out the work of leading global educators, companies and nonprofit organizations at the Global Education Fair, a free, virtual meet and greet for teachers and school districts. The purpose of this event is to connect educators to companies and organizations working in the global education space.

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Education Conference Survey Blackboard 50

NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Check out the updating calendar of events arranged by time zone, Global Collaboration Day is looking for schools, after-school programs, libraries, universities, museums, and companies to volunteer to host online activities on September 17th with the primary goal of demonstrating the power of global collaboration in the learning process.

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Blackboard Conference Libraries Twitter 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. That’s why, for example, 92.9 Photo: Chris Berdik. This is an equity issue.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 91

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Over the past 10 years, new learning management systems (LMSs) have sprung on the scene to rival the Blackboards and Moodles of old. And with certain established companies like Pearson pulling out of the LMS ranks , where do you start? An example of a "narrative stream" on the Schoology LMS platform.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Not sure anyone else did.)

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2018

And yet the education/technology industry (press) kept up with its rosy repetition that social equality is surely its priority, a product feature even – that VR, for example, a technology it has for so long promised is “ on the horizon ,” is poised to help everyone, particularly teachers and students, become more empathetic.

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Technology Industry Education Robotics 110

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This presentation highlights specific eBook tools, presents tactics to ensure educators are meeting CCSS and state standards, and presents examples of best practices in enhancing the reading experience for all readers, but specifically kids who struggle. Sarah has been a librarian for many years, and also a long distance runner.

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eBook Libraries Strategy Blackboard 28

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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Conference Education Case Study Blackboard 44

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

Take, for example, the founding editor of the technology trade magazine Wired , Kevin Kelly. There often are competing claims as to who invented a technology and when, for example, and there are early prototypes that may or may not “count.” Our Internet service providers today are likely telephone and TV companies.

Technology 40

Technology Learning Data Libraries 40

Fractus Learning

JANUARY 4, 2017

As teacher becomes facilitator, moving farther away from the spotlight, and as the student focus shifts from the blackboard, there is a fear for some that the teacher is facilitating himself out of a job. Acquisition is what happens to all individuals while they’re traversing the world, whether alone or with company.

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Blackboard How To Classroom Course 41

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. One should be conscientious, as such.

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

That’s one reason schools have avoided using the word dyslexia, according to Fran Bowman, a former special education teacher who now runs an educational services company that works with school districts to train teachers. Whole language was big in the 1920s, for example, as progressive education became influential.

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Training Report Groups System 78

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2018

Milliron shared one example of how a student, who is a working mother, said she received early-warning messages and left school because of it. Milliron stressed that the early-warning systems have worked at some colleges his company studied. And she left. And you can understand that.”

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Blackboard System Course Data 112

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2020

They threw training companies in the mix, and also global incidents. A new kind of attack that is COVID-related is what we call “Zoombombing,” but which also occurs on Google, Microsoft, Blackboard or any sort of real-time videoconferencing tools that schools are using. They treated K-12 and higher ed as the same. It’s a vicious cycle.

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Microsoft Report Blackboard Data 125