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Blackboard Co-Founder: ‘4 Secrets to Building a Tech Company for Higher Ed’

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Once upon a time the learning-management system (or LMS) was a new idea. The winner of the LMS market would be the company with the most widely adopted platform. And if you appealed to what the CIO needed to provision an LMS at scale, you’d seal the deal. Also back then, Pearson generally operated as an enabler of learning.

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On the Road to Interoperability with Denver Public Schools

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This case study was originally published on Getting Smart With a student enrollment edging ever closer to six figures, Denver Public Schools (DPS) is Colorado’s largest school district. Read the full Denver Public Schools case study here. This case study is from a Getting Smart series on interoperability.

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Passwords, Permissions and Student Data—How One District Got Account Provisioning Right

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One of the things that appealed to the district is that the platform is based on OneRoster , an open standard that governs the sharing of student data among different educational systems, such as an LMS or digital content platform. Case Study: Clay County School District. It has been a wonderful solution for us.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The Hindu Business Line : “ Pearson India set to launch K–12 online private school.” “ Girls in the Middle East do better than boys in school by a greater margin than almost anywhere else in the world: a case study in motivation, mixed messages, and the condition of boys everywhere.”

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The Business of Education Technology

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Pearson cut 4000 jobs – 10% of its staff. ” “Taking action,” in this case, meant releasing some case studies and posting a notice on the Federal Register about how a competitive grant program could provide a more “innovative” way to build assessments. K12 Inc got a new CEO.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Contrasting community college takes: a Pearson op-ed in Edsurge versus pretty much anything “ Dean Dad ” writes. That doesn’t seem like much money if you’re selling access to your students as a “case study” for a tech company. ” Accreditation and Certification. .”