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Blackboard launches New Learning Experience platform

eSchool News

Integrated platform enables personalized learning, streamlined communication with family and community engagement, and unified workflows. Blackboard’s offering combines multiple products, integrations, and professional services that can be deployed individually or as a comprehensive solution.

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How One University is Working to ‘Humanize’ Online Teaching

Edsurge

Michelle Pacansky-Brock: I had been teaching in the California Community Colleges System and very much embraced the student-centeredness of teaching and learning in that environment. I was teaching in Blackboard, teaching art history and art appreciation in a text-centered environment. To me, that's not what learning is about.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Of course, teachers have utilized social media sites for years to launch various side-hustles — speaking gigs and “ brand ambassadorships ”, for example — as well as to facilitate their main hustle — you know, teaching. The incident, she added, had also made her aware that “Pearson is monitoring all social media during PARCC testing.”

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