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. It flagship product, Canvas, has overtaken Blackboard in the North American higher education market, and is gaining adoption in K-12 as well.

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Blackboard LMS Company Data 104

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Over the last two years, Google has taken its popular applications and outfitted it for the classroom. While many schools and districts continue to use existing learning management systems, such as Blackboard, Canvas , Moodle and Schoology , Google’s Classroom platform is increasingly catching teachers’ eyes.

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System Google Schoology LMS 60

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

A few days later the district switched to Google Meet, according to Ashley Boyd, whose two children—ages 9 and 12—attend school in Berkeley Unified. The report looks at 15 popular video-conferencing apps, some of which have been adopted for use by companies and schools, including Zoom, Google Hangouts and Microsoft Teams.

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Report Video Schoology Microsoft 151

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. Ashley told the student to try Google Chrome, and the student was able to resolve the issue and hop into the session. Jay Sample says TechReady.io TechReady.io

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Company LMS Blackboard Classroom 99

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2018

It’s been quite a year for education news, not that you’d know that by listening to much of the ed-tech industry (press). And yet the education/technology industry (press) still maintained that blockchain would surely revolutionize the transcript and help insure that no one lies about who they are or what they know.

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Technology Industry Education Robotics 110

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

ASU+GSV Summit , now in its eighth year, has assembled yet another potent cocktail of education industry stakeholders from different walks of life. Take Blackboard , which has bought 15 companies since 2014. And G Suite for Education and Google Classroom far outpace Microsoft’s offerings (68 to 17 percent). edtech industry.

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Pearson Microsoft Company EdTech 76

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 15, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Come and join in the conversations and consider how google and its apps can be used in education.

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Blackboard ePortfolio Secondary Google 43

Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2018

She stayed with her Facebook group method her first two years of teaching there, but stopped once the school started using Google Classroom. In higher education, learning management systems including Blackboard, Canvas and Moodle have taken on these functionalities. Jackson now teaches at Zurich International in Switzerland.

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Facebook Social Media Moodle Edmodo 74

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

To adopt test proctoring software is to enrich an unethical industry. Microsoft and Google offer schools "productivity tools," for example, making it quite clear — I would hope — that whatever students or staff type or click on feeds into financial measurements of efficiency. Real world examples, not hypotheticals here.

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Software LMS Microsoft Company 132

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Education’s Proto-Platforms.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. The edtech industry made big strides during this era. School districts developed IT departments, even creating and hiring for the title “CTO/CIO.”

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 157

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Designed to inspire students to succeed in Bioscience, Business, Engineering, and Human Services, CAP brings together industry and education for student-driven learning through authentic problem-based work projects. We Collaborate has become the official user network for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate and Wimba) users.

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Khan Academy Trends Blackboard Education 40

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

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Founder Michael Chasen, formerly chief executive of the learning management system company, Blackboard, has raised a hefty warchest of funding: $46 million from investors that include Emergence Capital, Bill Tai (one of the first investors in Zoom) and leading education investors including GSV Ventures, Owl Ventures and Reach Capital.

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Classroom Learning Company Video 191

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | New York Times → Could it be that Google has become a natural monopoly by supplying an entire market’s demand for a service, at a price lower than what would be offered by two competing firms? Windows 10 Cloud appears to be Microsoft's attempt to compete.

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | New York Times → Could it be that Google has become a natural monopoly by supplying an entire market’s demand for a service, at a price lower than what would be offered by two competing firms? Windows 10 Cloud appears to be Microsoft's attempt to compete.

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

BLACKBOARD AND READSPEAKER ( www.blackboard.com ) & ( www.readspeaker.com ) Blackboard and ReadSpeaker are furthering their partnership to help instructors worldwide improve course content accessibility. EDTHENA ( www.edthena.com ) Edthena has developed a one-click video recording and uploading solution for Google Chrome.

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Epson Blackboard Pearson STEM 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2020

While I found cybersecurity industry reports that covered education, the way they did it didn’t make sense. 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.

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Microsoft Report Blackboard Data 117

eSchool News

JULY 28, 2021

Poll respondents named Canvas, Schoology, Google Classroom, Desire2Learn, Blackboard, Edsby and others as their district’s LMS of record. Edsby has received more than 60 industry awards and distinctions. A free, downloadable report with complete poll results is available here. About Edsby. More information at [link].

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LMS Schoology Blackboard Education 52

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

And even if partially true, we are not required to respond the way those in power or in the technology industry would like. And as they do so, we hand over a certain level of control – to the technologies themselves, sure, but just as importantly to the industries and the ideologies behind them.

Technology 40

Technology Learning Data Libraries 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

It chronicles the rise and fall of Theranos, a company that promised to revolutionize the medical industry by running a complete slate of tests using only a drop of blood (rather than the more voluminous quantity of blood that can be rather frightening to have drawn). Microsoft bought three companies in 2018. But it matters.

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

Bryan Alexander

MAY 4, 2015

Now we have added a smattering of other portable and often networked devices, including fitness trackers (I wear a Jawbone UP , my wife a Fitbit), Nike’s shoe devices , head-mounted video cameras, Google Glass, Bluetooth headware, the Livescribe Smartpen , various Leapfrog devices , classroom clickers, and more. How old is he?”).

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Tablets Laptops Mobility Education 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Personalized learning argues that the entrepreneurial nature of the knowledge economy and the gaping need, diversity and unmanageable size of a typical public school classroom are ill-served by the usual arrangement of a teacher lecturing at a blackboard. We use Google all the time.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 96

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

Luminaries in the edtech industry, including Richard Culatta (ISTE CEO and former director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. There’s also Pluralsight, a provider of tech-training courses that analysts bet will hit the public market soon. Department of Education) and David Wiley (the.

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Coursera Knewton Udemy EdTech 70

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Via Buzzfeed : “The Industry That Was Crushed By The Obama Administration.” Google announced it was adding to search results about colleges and universities data from the U.S. ” You know what would be helpful Google? Just resubmit the ones about Google Glass, right?). It lives.).

Education 40

Education E-rate MOOC Report 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

” Via Edsurge : “Golden State GDPR: What the Edtech Industry Should Know About CA ’s New Privacy Rules.” Wait, [ Sebastian Thrun has another new startup](The creator of Google’s self-driving car project is now working to automate boring office functions)? ” “Big Online Courses Have a Problem.

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Education MOOC Pearson Blackboard 58

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Fines Google $5.1 Via The Atlantic : “The Downsides of America’s Hyper-Competitive Youth-Soccer Industry.” “ Is Blackboard dying? ” The Google blog post announcing “ Course Kit ,” a tool that will integrate Google Drive with the LMS. The Google Empire. It was racist.

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Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “There’s a well-funded campus industry behind the Ann Coulter incident.” CNN tries to explain “Why Google , Apple and Microsoft are battling for education.” Happy 20th anniversary to Blackboard. ” The attack was at Transylvania University. Don’t click.

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

There’s more for-profit higher ed news – and how the Trump Administration has deep, deep ties to this industry – in the for-profit higher ed section below. “ Blackboard ’s Defense of its Finances is not Persuasive,” writes Michael Feldstein. of Oklahoma Weather Expert to Top Science and Tech Post.”

Education 43

Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

.” The Ed-Fi Alliance and IMS Global Learning Consortium have announced their plans to develop “a single, unified approach for rostering across the most adopted K–12 data standards and have now further solidified their joint support for IMS OneRoster™ as the cross-industry rostering API.” ” Hooray.

Education 40

Education Blackboard Common Core MOOC 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

One company not using Amazon to run its computing infrastructure: Blackboard. Google released a handful of updates timed with ISTE, including Google Cast for Education which I heard someone say was the product most enthusiastically received by educators at the conference. A screen sharing app.

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Inc lists “5 Entrepreneurs That Are Shaking Up Education” and includes the CEO of Blackboard. ” Via Edsurge : “ Google and Digital Promise Reimagine Teacher Tech Training with New National Program.” ” Via Education Week : “ Google Launches $50 Million Effort on the Future of Work.”

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

NovoEd co-founder Amin Saberi was replaced by Ed Miller, a former Blackboard exec. Blackboard replaced its CEO. For the last five or six years, education technology has been largely talked about in terms of “startups,” something that helps position the industry as an outsider and an underdog.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. There have been several stories recently calling the Google Books project a failure. ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom. Yik Yak has raised $73.5

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Lots of goings-on this week in the loan industry. Speaking of loans, Google will ban ads for payday loans. “ Blackboard Partners with Fishtree for Personalized Learning,” says Campus Technology. The for-profit higher ed chain Education Management Corporation will lay off some 200 employees. ” ( PDF ).

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Also via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans.” “The textbook publishing industry is considering a transformation that could significantly alter how faculty members assign readings, publishers make money and students obtain course materials,” Inside Higher Ed reports. .”

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Education MOOC Data Elsevier 40