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Blackboard to Sell Open LMS Product for $31.7 Million

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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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Meet Caliper, the Data Standard That May Help Us (Finally) Measure Edtech Efficacy

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This annual event aims to accelerate the development and adoption of data standards that allow technologies used in schools to “talk” to one another. What if there were a way to correlate students’ engagement with a digital curriculum or blended learning program to their grades?

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. Tagged on: April 20, 2017 OIT unveils two-factor authentication for Blackboard log-in | The Princetonian → Princeton University is moving to 2FA authentication for student LMS logins.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. Tagged on: April 20, 2017 OIT unveils two-factor authentication for Blackboard log-in | The Princetonian → Princeton University is moving to 2FA authentication for student LMS logins.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The Wall Street Journal : “The federal government is pumping $245 million into the creation and expansion of public charter schools across the nation with hopes of helping students in low-income communities.” ” Via the Data Quality Campaign : “ Student Data Privacy Legislation : A Summary of 2016 State Legislation.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The chain in question: Celerity Educational Group. Via The New York Times : “ Canada Beckons International Students With a Path to Citizenship.” Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Virginia circuit court on Thursday ruled against a George Mason University student group seeking access to donor agreements between a university foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation.” Canvas has two more installations than Blackboard in the E-Literate calculations?