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4 Items on Instructure’s To-Do List After the Sale of the Canvas LMS Provider

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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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Campus Edtech Has Shifted Focus From Tech to Ed

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Instructure, then an upstart challenger to Blackboard, made its bones on two major differentiators, one of which was “usability.” And how well can you demonstrate that the expense of the product, and the risks and compromises taken with student data privacy, will yield benefits for the students? And it showed.

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Meet Caliper, the Data Standard That May Help Us (Finally) Measure Edtech Efficacy

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How Caliper Enables a Deeper Level of Data Sharing. You don’t have to be a technologist, teacher, or even work in a school, to appreciate the conveniences that data sharing enables. For example, a learning activity is represented like this: “Student A (actor) started (action) Quiz B (object.)”.

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BloomBoard Appoints New CEO, Restructures Focus Around Micro-Credentials

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Today it offers 250 micro-credentials, from “Analyzing Student Misconceptions” and “Makerspace Safety” to “Foundations of Student Data Privacy” and “Writing Publicly to Influence Parents,” built by more than 20 providers using the nonprofit’s framework. Or, teachers can also pick their own learning paths.

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Teacher-Student Digital Communication Makes for Good Learning

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So explained Dr. Julie Evans, Chief Executive Officer of Project Tomorrow, in an edWebinar sponsored by Blackboard , examining findings from the program’s 2020 annual research project, Speak Up , for which 10,000 K-12 students nationwide shared their preferences and expectations for two-way communications with their teachers.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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E-Literate claimed this week that “ Canvas Surpasses Blackboard Learn in US Market Share” – with some additional analysis about “What’s Important about the Blackboard Market Share News.” Canvas has two more installations than Blackboard in the E-Literate calculations? But wait wait wait.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Implied: students are lazy; students are conniving; students are academically unprepared. There were also cyber attacks against testing systems and several examples of data being leaked due to negligence and “ human error ” – and as a result of all of this, plenty of lawsuits. million children ?

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