Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
The software can pull in data that learners generate as they move through software that colleges already deploy, such as learning-management systems including Blackboard and Canvas. With funding from the National Science Foundation, researchers at CMU have developed an analytics tool called LearnSphere.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 24, 2011
Learning management system giant Blackboard announced this week that it plans to add a "share" button to its site, so that professors will be able to make their course materials available beyond the walled garden of the LMS. of Text-Messaging at School A Big Step for Gesture-Based Learning?
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. I mean, one of its founders celebrated. Not sure anyone else did.)
Hack Education
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Neither Pearson nor Blackboard, companies that were quite active in gobbling up startups a year or so ago, bought a single company this year. Zuoyebang (tutoring): $585 million. 17zuoye (tutoring): $585 million. EverFi (“critical skills” training): $251 million.
Edsurge
MAY 3, 2017
The conference also welcomes the return of familiar faces in new gigs: former Knewton CEO is now with Bakpax, and Los Angeles Unified’s former superintendent John Deasy will share plans for rebuilding prisons to better serve incarcerated youths. Kamau Bell. This is the week when everyone—us included—is finally locking in the calendars.
Hack Education
JULY 1, 2017
Knewton (algorithmic textbooks) – $157.25 Companies that were actively acquiring startups in previous years – Blackboard, Pearson, and PowerSchool for example – have not bought any startups this year. AltSchool (private school; learning management system) – $173 million. Kaltura (video platform) – $165.1
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 9, 2016
Knewton has partnered with WebAssign. ” The claims are based on Blackboard data, published on the LMS company’s blog. . “ Telcel customers can now access Khan Academy free of data charges on mobile apps and es.zero.khanacademy.org thanks to partnership with Carlos Slim Foundation and Telcel,” says Khan Academy.
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