ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 24, 2019

Dusty blackboards, smudged overhead projectors, and over saturated photocopies - Surely this sounds like many people’s education experience. The potential applications for this currently seem limitless, considering the presence of AI in several industries outside of education. Learning Management Systems. Mobile Learning.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 29, 2018

We have a hot standby with a dedicated fiber connection between our two data centers because it’s vital that all of our systems are highly available.”. Within K12, we have more than 20 platforms and systems that are proprietary, and we want to glean information from all of them.”. Use Data to Enhance All Aspects of Education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

Additionally, Chron reports that some schools have even replaced the usual blackboard and whiteboard with smartboards this year. With more educational institutions adopting virtual learning management systems (such as Moodle, Edmodo, etc.), Gone are the days when teachers had to drag TVs into classrooms to let students watch films.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2021

Going after an industry giant in K-12 college and career planning wasn’t what Katie Fang originally had in mind when she started SchooLinks in 2015. Naviance was recently acquired by PowerSchool , which is the most widely used provider of student information systems and other education data services in K-12 schools and districts.

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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. We can debate which one.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Where Instructure planned to go with Bridge, its learning management system for corporate and enterprise customers, has been an open question for over a year, when the company was still publicly traded. But the two markets are very different, as industry analysts like Michael Feldstein have pointed out.

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

The learning management system provider—best known for its Canvas product popular among colleges—is officially under private equity ownership. After ANGEL was acquired by Instructure rival Blackboard, Henderson served as president of learning platforms for Blackboard until 2013. They are builders,” Urdan says.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

Either way, Meta’s possible entrance into the market plays into a long-standing fear of big tech in the edtech industry. There was speculation early on in the development of the Blackboard learning management system, for example, that a company like IBM or Microsoft would acquire a company and eat the market for LMSes.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

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. In short, Classroom wants to be a lightweight learning management system.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

WASHINGTON (PRWEB) — In celebration of the 38th annual SIIA CODiE Awards, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced Education Technology finalists. The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. and globally. Congratulations to all of this year’s finalists.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2019

A third shareholder in Instructure , the publicly traded provider of the Canvas learning management system used by colleges and K-12 schools, has come out against a proposed $2 billion sale of the company to a private equity firm. Blackboard itself went from a publicly traded company to private equity owned in 2011.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The education industry didn’t. The maker of the Canvas learning management system, which went public in 2015, announced a $2-billion offer from private equity firm Thoma Bravo last December. A Tale of Two American Education Systems: An Edtech Investor’s Perspective. “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” so the saying goes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Wayland Baptist University professor Don Ashley received a call this week from a student saying she couldn't log in to her learning management system (LMS), preventing her from attending a live online lesson. The paid school version starts at $1500 per year and is negotiated by institution, depending on full-time equivalency. TechReady.io

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edWeb.net

JULY 2, 2020

In a recent edWebinar sponsored by Blackboard, Dr. Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow, and Chris O’Neal, a former teacher and current Blackboard Solutions Engineer, shared front-line stories and tips to provide insight into how to ensure continuity of learning for our students during this unprecedented time.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

The mid-Atlantic region near New Markets’ headquarters in Fulton, Maryland is home to some of the education industry’s biggest names, including Blackboard, EverFi, Laureate Education and 2U. Source: New Markets Education Partners. The only acquisition with a disclosed valuation was Questar’s $127.5

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. Branded eventually as Blackboard, it was the market leader in the U.S. To my surprise, I discovered that more than half of its 7.4

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. Now, a couple with similar industry cred has a similar vision—along with plenty of funding. “We That vision has investors feeling stoked. million seed round for Engageli. Details around licensing pricing have not been determined.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Edtech providers are as vulnerable as their peers in other industries. At a major cybersecurity conference last fall, an 18-year-old student detailed vulnerabilities he found in Blackboard, one of the most widely-used learning management systems in the country.

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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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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 I like early market. I like being able to grow and scale things,” Keehn says. “I

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams. Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2017

For the 39 months in between, we lived in the era of flashlight apps, an industry worth billions of dollars. This shift is happening in education technology as well, notably with the learning management system (LMS). Surely, to most it must sound like the industry has it figured out. Do you remember your flashlight app?

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Some people even lobby for a right to technology for every student, in the hope of making the presence of laptops and tablets in classrooms as spread as that of blackboards and notebooks. Integrating learning management systems in schools’ way of modern teaching may soon become the norm.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

This includes typical LMS (Learning Management Systems) functions like homework, classwork, schedules, quizzes, resources, and gradebooks so stakeholders–teachers and students–can access them from any location and any digital device. Designed by Freepik. It’s only free if you have a G Suite for Education account.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

While the emergence of “edtech” and the growing tide of investment towards this industry has led to a seemingly endless proliferation of new startups claiming to be in service of education, the perception of many educators, including some of my professors at Penn, is often one of skepticism. Blackboard Inc.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 30, 2013

Date : Tuesday, February 5th, 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]. Top photo by Carol Black'

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2018

In the past years, the education technology industry has given rise to a number of companies that have tried to create “Facebook for schools” tools to help connect students and teachers with one another—without all the other personal life updates.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 30, 2013

Date : Thursday, January 31st, 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. Health in International Perspective found that U.S.

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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). He will be hosting his presentation in Jibe, a web-based multiuser virtual world platform based on Unity3d and developed by ReactionGrid.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 8, 2012

Date : Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8 pm 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

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. edtech industry. Bankers, lawyers, researchers and policymakers. The joke’s on them.”. Its first partner was.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 16, 2012

will help higher education providers and industry leaders understand these potentially disruptive variables and design appropriate programs and career paths for tomorrow''s workers. will provide higher education and industry stakeholders a guide for understanding the emerging societal forces that are shaping the future."

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

To adopt test proctoring software is to enrich an unethical industry. The learning management system, as the name suggests, is as much a piece of enterprise software as it is educational software. To adopt test proctoring software is to maintain a pedagogical practice based on mistrust, surveillance, and punishment.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

Once upon a time the learning-management system (or LMS) was a new idea. To mark the 20th anniversary of Blackboard, one of the first LMSes, the company’s co-founder, Matthew Pittinsky, wrote an epic blog post about the company’s history, which includes his advice for today’s edtech leaders. But we’d say no.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

Join me Thursday, August 25th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Bob Compton, producer of the new documentary film The Finland Phenomenon , an "inside look at the world''s finest secondary education system." The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early.

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