Edsurge
MARCH 10, 2020
Blackboard, a Reston, Va.-based based provider of learning management software for K-12, higher ed, government and businesses, has agreed to sell its Open LMS business to Learning Technologies Group, or LTG, a London-based conglomerate of workplace learning software services. LTG will pay $31.7
Edsurge
APRIL 1, 2020
The learning management system provider—best known for its Canvas product popular among colleges—is officially under private equity ownership. Previous expansion plans had been put on hold by a disappointing corporate learning product, activist investor interest and an acquisition that became messy at times.
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Edsurge
DECEMBER 23, 2019
At the start of the last decade, professors were just beginning to have their say in the design of the newest tech at the time: the Learning Management System. Instructure, then an upstart challenger to Blackboard, made its bones on two major differentiators, one of which was “usability.” And it showed. Absolutely not.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
Today it offers 250 micro-credentials, from “Analyzing Student Misconceptions” and “Makerspace Safety” to “Foundations of Student Data Privacy” and “Writing Publicly to Influence Parents,” built by more than 20 providers using the nonprofit’s framework. Or, teachers can also pick their own learning paths.
techlearning
OCTOBER 25, 2018
This is no small feat, considering that she and now-NJ Commissioner of Education Lamont Repollet stepped into a struggling district with 75% of students reading below grade level (half of those being three-to-six grades below). When we support parents’ learning, they create a culture of learning at home.”
Edsurge
MAY 23, 2017
Over 500 education technologists from companies and districts gathered last week in Denver for the IMS Learning Impact meeting , hosted by the IMS Global Consortium. This annual event aims to accelerate the development and adoption of data standards that allow technologies used in schools to “talk” to one another.
edWeb.net
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
With remote learning still at play, students now rely on virtual engagement with their teachers to have questions answered and assignments clarified. The report is one of four reports featured in the executive brief series 90 Days that Changed K-12 Teaching & Learning. By Michele Israel. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.
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