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

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After ANGEL was acquired by Instructure rival Blackboard, Henderson served as president of learning platforms for Blackboard until 2013. They have to learn how to listen to their customers again. One name floated by company watchers is Ray Henderson, the former chief products officer at ANGEL Learning.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

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Dream Academy students—chosen through a mix of GPA, interview, teacher recommendations, and academic portfolio review—can graduate from high school with an associate degree in social science. They use the Blackboard platform to communicate with professors and engage fellow students in their courses.

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

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This sharing of data between different social apps is possible because they have a standard way of exchanging this data. So far, data sharing capabilities are fairly limited in today’s education technology tools, because there is no standard agreement on how to share data between them.

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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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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts. People were relieved that there was a new alternative to Blackboard. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via El Paso Inc : “In mid-April, computer hackers had five days’ access to the personal data of a reported 51 El Paso Independent School District employees and were able to redirect their April 15 paychecks.” ” Via The Kansas City Star : “ Rockhurst University is sued over data breach in phishing scam.”