IT Bill

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This means lower costs up-front and lower costs overall when compared to the combined costs of cellular and monthly broadband Internet service to the home. By replacing LMS threaded discussion with SMT (e.g. The cost of the smartphone is usually spread out over monthly payments within a contract.

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Smartphone Learning Mobility Social Media 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Politics and Policies FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced Connect to Compete , a new non-profit initiative that brings private industry and the non-profit sector together to help expand broadband adoption and promote digital literacy. Updates and Upgrades Apple released its latest iOS this week.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

Neo LMS

AUGUST 17, 2021

don’t have a broadband connection and don’t own a laptop or computer. While there are video and audio tools that help bridge the physical distance, your communications strategy needs to include cognizance of the digital divide and your students’ access to these tools. Read more: 6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Kajeet introduced Kajeet Private Wireless, its next-gen, cloud-based, private 5G and LTE platform delivering fast, secure, and reliable broadband connectivity for students in remote areas and communities underserved by public wireless options.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

A robust and feature rich LMS (Learning Management System). Modern systems have moved beyond the old concept of a LMS, and are really much more than they were 10 or 15 years ago. I know of organizations that have had four LMS in a decade, hoping each time that the newest one will be “right”. This is not an IT decision.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Next-Generation LMS. The LMS is now on the horizon for the very first time, despite being one of the oldest education technology systems out there, with origins in the 1970s and the development of PLATO. Adaptive Learning Technologies. Mobile Learning. Two to Three Years. The Internet of Things. Four to Five Years.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

From the FCC : “Fact Sheet on Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal.” ” Via The Atlantic : “How ‘ Daycare ’ Became ‘ School ’ ” Via Edutechnica : “4th Annual LMS Data Update.” ” Via Education Week : “ Textbook Costs Hurt Student Achievement, Study Finds.”

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Via Wired : “ Koch Brothers Are Cities’ New Obstacle to Building Broadband.” iContracts has acquired the EasyCampus LMS from Educadium. Via Motherboard : “ New York City Passes Bill to Study Biases in Algorithms Used by the City.” ” Education in the Courts.

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Education Robotics MOOC Facebook 46

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Edsurge runs with Trump’s promise to boost rural broadband like it’s a truth anyone can count on. LMS news from Edsurge : “​ University of Michigan ’s Gamified LMS Opens Up to Other Institutions.” Among those cringeworthy ideas: the LMS. “technologizing” the government.

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Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

.” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. ” More on this scramble to serve (profit from) low-income broadband customers in the upgrades/downgrades section below.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Absorb Software has raised $59 million from Silversmith Capital Partners to build an LMS. Via Brookings : “Signs of digital distress: Mapping broadband availability and subscription in American neighborhoods.” .” “Charity is no substitute for justice withheld” – St. Unacademy has raised $11.5

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Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

If those two say “ the LMS market glacier is melting ,” it’s probably melting. (I’m In May, their company began offering a subscription service for a report on the LMS market – a signal, perhaps, that “the march to replace the learning management system” won’t be over anytime soon.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom. Inside Higher Ed examines the challenges facing LMS provider Blackboard. ” (In Cleveland.).

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource – a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools – called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). ” – data about LMS adoption from Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

“ FCC Delays Are Keeping Broadband From Rural School Kids,” says Wired. ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Comparing the First Ten Years of Blackboard and Instructure in LMS Market.” Muñiz as the Education Department’s General Counsel. ” (State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Providers Will Need Permission to Collect Private Data.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Blackboard Study on How Instructors Use the LMS.” Should have called them “personalized ads,” and then education reformers would be super stoked. ” So says the FCC.

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