Marketplace K-12

JULY 5, 2016

In the latest dealmaking news, Workday acquired online learning platform Zaption, while Blackboard teamed with Dreamit to support ed-tech startups. Workday Acquires Zaption: Workday , a provider of enterprise cloud management applications for human resources and finance, has acquired online learning platform Zaption.

Blackboard 53

Blackboard Company Industry EdTech 53

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

But even students who do have Wi-Fi and digital devices for schoolwork may not be able to fully participate in their courses if the technology they have is old, outdated or not powerful enough to handle the demands of today’s higher ed software and streaming services. You do need a device that is fairly new—not more than five years old.

Laptops 166

Laptops Software Blackboard Report 166

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

One name floated by company watchers is Ray Henderson, the former chief products officer at ANGEL Learning. After ANGEL was acquired by Instructure rival Blackboard, Henderson served as president of learning platforms for Blackboard until 2013. Thoma Bravo is unlikely to break Instructure down and sell its remains.

LMS 95

LMS Blackboard Company Moodle 95

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. on behalf of CDWG Best Science Instructional Solution for Grades PK–8 STEMscopes Science, Accelerate Learning Inc. For more information, visit [link].

IXL Learning 60

IXL Learning Technology Pearson Education 60

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

AllLearn wasn't the only online education failure of the early 2000s, of course. Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003. There, you can learn that this initiative was headed by one Michael M. TurnItIn was founded at UC Berkeley.)

Blackboard 96

Blackboard Coursera LMS ProctorU 96

myViewBoard

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Most teachers and students stay at home and conduct distance learning. Teachers are worried about student engagement and interaction online. Meanwhile, students find themselves hard to adapt to online learning, and learning outcomes drop significantly. A lose-lose situation is never what we want to see.

Laptops 67

Laptops Outcomes Blackboard Student Engagement 67

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

I’ve been trained in the blackboard- and text-oriented world,” he says. But nowadays, [student learning] is very graphic and video-oriented—which is a different skill set.” There are so many great things you can do in the online world that are not possible at all in the offline world,” he says. Consider that version 2.0.

Exercises 118

Exercises Classroom Gamification Course 118

Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I was asked to give a presentation on improving interaction for online courses. The answer lies in research that has been done in online learning, social psychology, distance or online education, communication (including interpersonal, group, and CM communication), and even organizational development.

LMS 49

LMS Adobe Blackboard Course 49

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Textbooks have given way to Google Classroom and the Blackboard Learn management system, and lessons are assigned, submitted and assessed online. Every fall, students are shown how to download assignments from Blackboard before they leave school, so they can complete them offline at home and then upload them again the next day.

Broadband 88

Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 88

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.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

6:00pm DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER: David Weinberger on "John Henry in the Library: Algorithms vs.

Libraries 64

Libraries Conference eBook Mobility 64

MindShift

APRIL 21, 2015

Jason Noble, a high school Spanish teacher, has been using Middlebury for three years, first through a partnership with Christian Schools International , where he was an online teacher, and now through Iowa Learning Online , the state-supported online learning platform. In a perfect world, all schools in the U.S.

Company 28

Company Moodle Software Strategy 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Elliot will share why in traditional schools kids have "no say and no way to get say" and why they are leaving to learn. Join this Blackboard Collaborate session here. He will explain how design is in the doing and how internship programs that are advisory-based support passion.

BYOD 52

BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 52

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2020

These were the days before TurnItIn and other plagiarism checking software were widely adopted by schools. These were the early days of the learning management system software, however, and the UO was an early adopter of Blackboard — that's a different albeit related story.) plagiarism detection software.

Software 78

Software Data Company Laptops 78

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.

Personalized Learning 96

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 96

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

“ Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive? E-Literate claimed this week that “ Canvas Surpasses Blackboard Learn in US Market Share” – with some additional analysis about “What’s Important about the Blackboard Market Share News.”

Education 43

Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

I wrote about social-emotional learning (algorithms) as a “trend to watch.” ” Elsewhere in algorithms… Via The New York Times : “Sent to Prison by a Software Program’s Secret Algorithms.” Happy 20th anniversary to Blackboard. ” Pittinsky is currently the CEO of Parchment. (

Kaplan 46

Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46

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.”

Education 40

Education Blackboard Common Core MOOC 40

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Tony Bates looks at “Brexit and online learning in Europe.” One company not using Amazon to run its computing infrastructure: Blackboard. ” EdWeek’s Market Brief has a write-up of a recent study by the Software & Information Industry Association about why teachers take online PD courses.

MOOC 48

MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Although sometimes talked about as a “movement,” Mozilla’s Open Badges Project was really more of a technical specification, one that was transferred from Mozilla to IMS Global Learning Consortium in 2017. And “free” doesn’t last. Without revenue the company will go away.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

“Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?” ” Inc lists “5 Entrepreneurs That Are Shaking Up Education” and includes the CEO of Blackboard. Via Honi Soit : “University abandons Cadmus anti-cheating software.” ” asks Edsurge. Never change.

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” Inside Higher Ed examines the challenges facing LMS provider Blackboard.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

The Common Core aligned reading software maker had raised $1.8 ” Trends to watch: investors’ interest in English language learning (software). ” Via ProPublica : “There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. Upgrades and Downgrades. Instead, it shames them.”

Education 52

Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52