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How to use anything on the web as an LMS assignment

Ditch That Textbook

Blackboard. We educators often see digital learning through the lens of our learning management system (LMS). Google Classroom. No matter your LMS, you have LOTS of power to create great assignments! Many times, because we're looking for our LMS, it keeps us from seeing what's possible.

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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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Schools Must Support Educators While Keeping Tabs on Tech Trends

EdTech Magazine

No matter what investments school districts make to create a modern learning environment, they likely won’t have much impact if teachers don’t use them. To change teacher attitudes, school and district leaders must show instructors how technology can benefit their practice and provide them with resources that set them up for success.

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Speak Up 2020: A look at digital learning and transformation

eSchool News

For the last seven months of 2020, school districts have gone through extreme changes regarding how learning is happening in pandemic-induced hybrid and digital learning environments. Digital learning during the pandemic. Related content: Keeping COVID innovations even after the pandemic passes.

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Blackboard to Sell Open LMS Product for $31.7 Million

Edsurge

Blackboard, a Reston, Va.-based based provider of learning management software for K-12, higher ed, government and businesses, has agreed to sell its Open LMS business to Learning Technologies Group, or LTG, a London-based conglomerate of workplace learning software services. LTG will pay $31.7

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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

Edsurge

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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

Edsurge

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?