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Make your LMS a social learning platform

Ask a Tech Teacher

Vivek Singh, education professional and contributor to Ask a Tech Teacher, has some interesting ideas on using your native LMS as a social learning platform. What makes your LMS a social learning platform? Here are some critical features that can essentially leverage an LMS to become social in the true sense. References.

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The Facebook Scandal: What Can We Learn as Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

Professor Britt Watwood has moved his college classes off Facebook. The Facebook Scandal: What Can We Learn as Educators. Vicki: The Facebook scandal with Cambridge Analytica and more. So, first of all, Britt, how would you explain, in simple terms, what happened on Facebook and why so many people are wanting to #deletefacebook?

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Blackboard to Merge With Anthology, Forming a New Edtech Giant

Edsurge

Today one of the largest providers of course-management software for colleges and schools, Blackboard, announced that it plans to merge with Anthology, a company formed last year from the combination of three other edtech companies. Blackboard is one of the largest LMS providers.

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Why a Teacher-First Approach Is a Win for Edtech and Education

Edsurge

Just because edtech companies work outside of the classroom doesn’t mean they can’t position themselves as a support system inside the classroom. These actions allow companies to say that they’ve listened to teachers, but they aren’t adequate for truly understanding what would make their products transformative for teachers.

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Metaverse–Education Game-changer

Ask a Tech Teacher

Once completed, it can be shared through the app, with a link, by posting to some social media, or by uploading to a class LMS (learning management system). Here’s how you start: Log in using your Facebook account or your email address. Once the experience is completed, publish to Facebook, Twitter, an LMS, or share the link.

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A Small Liberal Arts School Becomes a Testing Ground for the ‘Facebook of Learning Management Systems’

Edsurge

The university is the first to adopt a tool called Notebowl to replace its legacy learning management system (LMS). based company provides a central platform where students can find and share information for all of their courses and extracurriculars. By contrast, “a legacy LMS is like a file system on a computer,” Chaifetz says.

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Should you build your own LMS?

eSchool News

And while core course content is often housed on the district’s internal learning management system (LMS), the extracurricular content—advanced placement (AP), English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), honors, homeschool, and blended learning content—must also be factored into the equation. Taking the DIY route. “At

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