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Blackboard to Sell Open LMS Product for $31.7 Million

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Blackboard, a Reston, Va.-based As part of the deal, LTG will resell Blackboard products integrated with Open LMS. LTG bought the company to grow its presence in the market of LMS software built off Moodle, launched in 2002 as a grassroots, open-source and more affordable option to Blackboard. LTG will pay $31.7

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Former Blackboard CEO Raises $16M to Bring LMS Features to Zoom Classrooms

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ClassEDU’s co-founder and CEO is Michael Chasen, who previously co-founded and served 12 years as CEO of Blackboard, which remains one of the biggest LMS providers in the education market. Other financiers in this seed round include early Zoom investors Jim Scheinman of Maven Partners and Bill Tai, the company’s first committed backer.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Workday Acquires Zaption; Dreamit Partners With Blackboard

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In the latest dealmaking news, Workday acquired online learning platform Zaption, while Blackboard teamed with Dreamit to support ed-tech startups. Dreamit, Blackboard Partner to Support Startups : Startup accelerator Dreamit and Blackboard Inc.

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Blackboard Co-Founder Urges ‘Disarmament’ Between Edtech Companies and Academics

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He has seen the situation from both sides, having spent years as a leader of Blackboard (he co-founded it 20 years ago), then heading back to school to get a PhD and become a professor, all before returning to business to become CEO of Parchment. Let’s rewind 20 years, to when you co-founded Blackboard. No, and this may surprise you.

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5 Digital tools for making the virtual classroom more inclusive

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Education used to be associated with classrooms and chairs, desks, and blackboards. Teachers create an account, and the platform finds a suitable exchange school partner with which they can collaborate. Nowadays, education also takes place online, as an integral part of academic education or lifelong learning programs.

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New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund

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Jason Palmer has returned to New Markets Venture Partners , where he spent two years beginning in 2012 as an entrepreneur-in-residence. His newest role—as general partner at New Market Venture Partners—coincides with the first closing on a new education fund. His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan.

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Startup Class Technologies Bets Big on the Future of Online Learning (and Zoom)

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Chasen is a familiar figure in edtech: he co-founded Blackboard, one of the largest providers of learning management systems to colleges and schools, and served as its CEO for years. Lessons Learned What did Chasen learn from his experience as the longtime CEO of Blackboard? Chasen says he has learned from that experience as well.