Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Canvas , whiteboards and a company called Blackboard. FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” BLACKBOARD'S NEW FRONTEER: Blackboard acquired Fronteer , the U.K.-based

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Join this Blackboard Collaborate session here. Education Revolution Google+ Community The Data Driven Education Trend. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts. He will explain how design is in the doing and how internship programs that are advisory-based support passion.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

It was the latest big-fix trend in K-12 education, and Gist, a favored daughter of Silicon Valley philanthropists, offered up the nation’s smallest state as a laboratory mouse. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. If every child had a computer or iPad, she could log into a customized cyberclassroom and learn at her own pace.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

“ Is Blackboard dying? It’s almost as though we cannot talk about wealth and income and higher ed without looking more broadly at trends and institutions outside of higher ed. ” Via Chalkbeat : “Do suspensions lead to higher dropout rates and other academic problems? Should They? ” asks Wired.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

I’m also curious how this news – again, I’m not sure two closures are really a “trend” – will affect student loan startups. “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” Inc lists “5 Entrepreneurs That Are Shaking Up Education” and includes the CEO of Blackboard.

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