Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It's entertaining, I guess — the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that. I talk a lot about the problems of industry when it comes to ed-tech — how venture capital and venture philanthropy have enormous influence on shaping the direction of education policy. " Let's not forget that.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

After ANGEL was acquired by Instructure rival Blackboard, Henderson served as president of learning platforms for Blackboard until 2013. The market perception is different, the industry as a whole is in a different place, and the product focus isn't as bifurcated as Blackboard's was at the time,” Whitmer said in an email.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Instructure’s Canvas product dominates the higher education LMS market with an estimated 35 percent share and continues to take business away from one-time industry leader Blackboard. Blackboard itself went from a publicly traded company to private equity owned in 2011.

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Blackboard LMS Company Report 79

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2014

After Hastings sees DreamBox in action at a Rocketship school, he e-mails his friend Dan Kerns, DreamBox’s chief architect (the two worked together several years earlier; in Silicon Valley, all the best software engineers know one another) to say, nice job. But Danner couldn’t find that software, anywhere. This was 2009.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Before that, she founded education advisory company Quantum Thinking, was an entrepreneur-in-residence and senior fellow at the Gates Foundation, and worked for Kaplan, Pearson, Ellucian, Blackboard and Oracle. “I Zoom has open LTI, API and SDK—an alphabet soup of acronyms that help product developers connect software.

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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

JUNE 9, 2020

If few students answer the question correctly, the software can flag the professor, or the textbook author, to consider revising the content to make it clearer. He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I was a speaker today at the #AgainstSurveillance teach-in , a fundraiser for Ian Linkletter who is being sued by the online test-proctoring software company Proctorio. To adopt test proctoring software is to maintain a pedagogical practice based on mistrust, surveillance, and punishment. This should not come as a surprise.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Neck and neck for the top spot in the LMS academic vendor race are Blackboard—the early entry and once-dominant player—and coming-up quickly from behind, the relatively new contender, Canvas, each serving about 6.5 Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes. million students.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 125

Slate and Tablets

APRIL 7, 2014

Enter Blackboard. I have many things to say about Blackboard, but one can’t fault their ingenuity and their status as a pioneer of the industry during a dark era. Blackboard united many of the tasks that a school might want to do online under its own design and software umbrella. We must ask ourselves, why?

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Technological minutiae in the classroom carry such immense consequences that it can be hard to think beyond tomorrow’s software update, nevermind next year’s LMS rollout. The central stage featured a projector screen the size of several blackboards, a live band and a variety of furniture for interviews.

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Robotics Blackboard LMS Libraries 84

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

Date : Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. The edtech industry made big strides during this era.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 158

ViewSonic Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

2. Enhance Learning Outcomes with Interactive Whiteboards Technology and software usage in classrooms can foster creativity for better learning outcomes. Unlike in the past, when teachers used to lecture at the front of the class and write on blackboards, educators today are using interactive whiteboards.

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Outcomes Gamification Blackboard Classroom 317

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. I mean, one of its founders celebrated. Not sure anyone else did.)

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

A most disruptive year to schools and society proved lucrative for the education industry, particularly for those raising private capital. edtech industry. In the big picture, the surge of capital in the edtech industry is not an anomaly. In 2020, U.S. education technology startups raised over $2.2 million in 2020.

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EdTech Coursera Company Industry 191

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. ALMA START ( www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies launched an enrollment and admissions management tool called Alma Start.

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Epson Blackboard Pearson STEM 53

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). Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. billion.

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

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. Digital data is fragile.

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Technology Learning Data Libraries 40

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. BLACKBOARD ALLY ( www.blackboard.com ) Blackboard announced that Blackboard Ally is now available for multiple learning management systems used by K-12 school districts. Among the new updates includes Blackboard Gradebook integration.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 30, 2013

Date : Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link].

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2016

Based on my experience in the enterprise software world and now in education technology, I’d like to offer some of my thoughts on how to go about doing this. Is it mainly a digital software tool for a specific instructional or administrative task, or a broad-based technology platform that an entire school or district must adopt?

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MindShift

APRIL 21, 2015

would have perfect connectivity and modern hardware and software that could connect to ours.’ That processing time is a little longer than students expect because big audio files are bouncing between the school’s learning management system , like Blackboard or Moodle, back to Middlebury and then back to the school again.

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Company Moodle Software Strategy 28

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.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Via Buzzfeed : “The Industry That Was Crushed By The Obama Administration.” Also by Michael Feldstein : “Why Ed-Tech Software Patents Could Harm Innovation.” ” Among the not-awesomeness of ed-tech built by teachers, please let’s not forget: Blackboard, TurnItIn. It lives.).

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Education E-rate MOOC Report 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

She uses a software program popular among architects and designers. The students learn how to use industry-approved software programs and are often granted paid internships at local design firms and research labs, and Greeley’s planning and development departments. They also take field trips to area manufacturing firms.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Via The Atlantic : “The Downsides of America’s Hyper-Competitive Youth-Soccer Industry.” “ Is Blackboard dying? That is, the announcement from RealNetworks that they’re offering facial recognition software to schools for free. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ U. ” Racist.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “There’s a well-funded campus industry behind the Ann Coulter incident.” ” Elsewhere in algorithms… Via The New York Times : “Sent to Prison by a Software Program’s Secret Algorithms.” Happy 20th anniversary to Blackboard.

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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. The company: RIB Software SE. “ Blackboard ’s Defense of its Finances is not Persuasive,” writes Michael Feldstein. More via AJC.

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Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

Via Education Week : “Ed-Tech Software Group Objects to Messages in Feds’ #GoOpen Campaign.” ” “About The Blackboard Partnership With IBM And Amazon Web Services ” by Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill. Theobald during a private session, and announced its intention to dismiss him.”

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Education Blackboard Common Core MOOC 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. 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. And “free” doesn’t last. 3D Printing. I know, I know.

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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. Blackboard – or an affiliate of Blackboard recently formed by its parent company, Providence Equity Partners – has acquired Higher One for $260 million, a move that will allow Blackboard to handle more financial services for schools.

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

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. The Procurement Problem.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Inc lists “5 Entrepreneurs That Are Shaking Up Education” and includes the CEO of Blackboard. Via Ed Week’s Market Brief : “ Predictive Analytics in Ed-Tech Create New Questions in K–12, Higher Ed” – a dispatch from an Education Technology Industry Network event. Never change.

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. . “A bold move,” says Inside Higher Ed. ” Oh.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

But you’re full of fallacy yourself if you think that’s going to stop me from making critiques about this industry. The Common Core aligned reading software maker had raised $1.8 ” Trends to watch: investors’ interest in English language learning (software). Good grief. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52

Hack Education

AUGUST 18, 2017

Tune into the Contrafabulists podcast this weekend, when Kin Lane and I will discuss the response (or lack thereof) from the tech industry, including Cloudflare , Spotify , Squarespace , GoDaddy , Google , the EFF , and others. Via Edsurge : “Software Helps Instructors Stop Mangling Hard-to-Pronounce Student Names.”

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