Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

To mark the 20th anniversary of Blackboard, one of the first LMSes, the company’s co-founder, Matthew Pittinsky, wrote an epic blog post about the company’s history, which includes his advice for today’s edtech leaders. At Blackboard we packaged learning management into three tiers. In fact, the notion emerged about two decades ago.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

ClassEDU’s co-founder and CEO is Michael Chasen, who previously co-founded and served 12 years as CEO of Blackboard, which remains one of the biggest LMS providers in the education market. If some of these functionalities sound like what one might find in a learning management system, that is no coincidence.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2024

Orlando, Florida – Anthology, the leading educational technology company, revealed the latest iteration of its Learning Management System (LMS), Blackboard, at Anthology Together 2024. AI Conversations is a new activity type in Blackboard to drive AI literacy and deepen student engagement.

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Educational Technology Guy

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Today, however, teachers can engage their students in a variety of ways using technology. Many teachers have found that the implement of educational technology in their learning environment encourages students to learn. Presentation Technology Technology can encourage the creative side of your students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Its clear that the ways we communicate, make decisions and solve problems are changing as we embrace this new technology. The conversation should shift toward leveraging our teaching and learning approach and harnessing this new technologys potential. Education is no exception.

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Ascend Math

JUNE 1, 2017

“Write the following on the blackboard 100 times: Schools don’t want technology. Schools don’t want technology. Okay, we have certainly gotten past the premise that technology itself holds answers for education. Recently, THE Journal went a step further calling for less attention to technology and more to curriculum. “As

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2020

Below is a short curation of the most useful articles, links, resources, and webinars to help you through this challenging environment: Online articles: Resources, tips and more for remote and e-learning (teaching online) — from Educational Technology Guy. Blackboard. CourseSites –like Blackboard, but free for some set-up.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 29, 2018

For BASIS Curriculum Schools , the answer is next-generation technology, including analytics that inform not only curriculum planning, but also hiring, test creation and student performance. We’re using technology like a startup might,” says BASIS Educational Ventures CIO Matthew New. “We News & World Report ? CEO Peter Bezanson.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2024

It’s not just about ditching blackboards for tablets – education today is undergoing a paradigm shift in teaching methodologies. It’s not far-fetched to claim that technology is reshaping the philosophical and practical underpinnings of education. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

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? Chasen says he has learned from that experience as well.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

Even amid the proliferation of mobile technology in K–12 schools through BYOD programs and one-to-one computing, desktop computers remain a popular choice. For now, about 48 percen t of the teachers and students who responded to a 2018 report about classroom technology from Cambridge International reported using a desktop computer in schools.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

He has seen the situation from both sides, having spent years as a leader of Blackboard (he co-founded it 20 years ago), then heading back to school to get a PhD and become a professor, all before returning to business to become CEO of Parchment. Let’s rewind 20 years, to when you co-founded Blackboard. They didn’t know how to program.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Marissa Mierow It’s no secret that voice-enabled technology is taking off in the domestic sphere, but how is this increasingly robust technology impacting education? How do you see voice-enabled technology changing the contours of education? Voice is the most natural interface; it is our primary mode of communication.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

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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Marketplace K-12

MAY 25, 2022

Startup Class Technologies has acquired Anthology's Blackboard Collaborate, and India-based Byju's company Great Learning has acquired Northwest Executive Education. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Class Acquires Blackboard Tool; Byju’s Great Learning Acquires PD provider appeared first on Market Brief.

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Neo LMS

MAY 7, 2019

Ever since the classroom was invented educators have been using the latest technologies to enhance the learning process and support students in achieving the best academic outcomes. Educators today can’t really complain about not having enough options in terms of classroom technologies. Exchanging ideas is the basis of collaboration.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 24, 2019

Dusty blackboards, smudged overhead projectors, and over saturated photocopies - Surely this sounds like many people’s education experience. Social learning takes the base components of human interaction and group dynamics and applies them to the modern technological age. Today, eLearning reigns supreme. Social Learning.

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ViewSonic Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For the uninitiated, Smart Classrooms are digitally equipped learning spaces that come tailored with an array of teaching and educational resources, most of which are dependent on some form of digital technology. Given the surge in Smart Classroom technology requirements, the demands on these IT professionals gets ratcheted up ever further.

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Digital Promise

JULY 15, 2021

For more than 30 years, California’s Outreach and Technical Assistance Network ( OTAN ) has been at the forefront of meeting the technology needs of adult education providers, including English as a Second Language (ESL), Adult Basic Education (ABE), Adult Secondary Education (ASE), and Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Palmdale School District Superintendent Dr. Raúl Maldonado discusses the district’s “Palmdale Promise” initiative, focusing on technological equity and early literacy. And I will have to tell you that my technology team does. I know that there is a pretty heavy technology component. Follow your show.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 27, 2011

Photo credit: blogs.oxfam.org The problem though is that a large majority of stakeholders throughout the world think that the integration of technology is not essential in the classroom. At NMHS we place an emphasis on sound pedagogy, and only after this is ensured technology is integrated. Change Social Media Technology Integration'

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2017

No one sends a press release when a school decides that a technology it once raved about has failed—or outlived its usefulness. That was the focus of a session at the annual meeting this week of WCET , which brought together hundreds of college-technology leaders. Faculty resistance to phasing out.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2015

The technological advances of the past two decades have changed the world, and education is no exception. But that’s not the only way technology is making it easier for students to learn. Students who use technology in the classroom perform better, and emerge from their educations better prepared for the challenges of adult life.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Technology for teaching needs to be seamless, and having one cable to do it all works perfectly for achieving just that. Teaching has moved on from the days of chalk and blackboards. And you also get to be a technology magician. While such methods are still used, they are now often supplemented by various media and techniques.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 27, 2019

Quick Take: Discuss and understand the SAMR Model of educational technology integration. The SAMR Model for categorizing technology integration in education was created by Dr. He is President of Hippasus an educational consulting firm with expertise in technology, pedagogy, and administration. What is the SAMR Model.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

APRIL 4, 2014

You can even join our Technology Smackdown and present your favorite web tools or apps. Just click on the green links on this page and a Blackboard Collaborate room will popup. Join us this Sunday, April 6th! Professional Development in your PJs. Only 4 hours. Find all the web room links here. Check your time zone here, Bit.ly/rscontz46.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

If you don’t “get” why technology is important, or know people who don’t, take a listen to understand and learn about transformative practices that work in education. I wanted to talk today about why I think Teachers Using Technology are Super Heroes. Today’s sponsor is Kids Discover Online. Vicki: Awesome!

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ViewSonic Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Education technology (EdTech) can support this by allowing students to have fun as they participate in interactive and collaborative activities. 2. Enhance Learning Outcomes with Interactive Whiteboards Technology and software usage in classrooms can foster creativity for better learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Colleges and universities with prison education programs are increasingly using technology to deliver instruction to incarcerated individuals, even with strict limitations on internet access in correctional facilities. But the technology is also raising serious questions about quality. Only a tiny percentage of U.S. More than 1.5

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 8, 2019

As technology continues to sprint forward, it’s up to educational institutions to keep pace or risk falling behind. While traditional teaching methods have served us well until now, the huge opportunities presented to us by technology cannot be ignored — whether in a college or pre-K environment. The evolution of classroom tech.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 31, 2016

From old teaching methods to innovative technology, schools need to deliver the best education if we want our kids to stand a chance when facing the unknown future. Display technologies. My first school years meant a lot of white chalk on a really black blackboard. I wasn’t a fan of the situation. Document cameras.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The blackboard or overhead projector for the teacher at the front of the room. This shift is both a result of, and further propelled by, technology. Two, the integration of technology that fosters collaboration and sharing. We’ve come a long way since the humble blackboard. Traditional tech did this well.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

Technology has vastly disrupted and improved numerous sectors around the world, be it the government and banking, or retail and marketing. Unsurprisingly, technology is also impacting the world of education. Additionally, Chron reports that some schools have even replaced the usual blackboard and whiteboard with smartboards this year.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 7, 2013

It is a MOOC with a focus on educational technology and media. Sessions take place in Blackboard Collaborate and are archived and repeated if you can''t make the time. The idea is that we learn from each other and create our own paths of learning.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 2, 2022

While it provided a smooth transition from the blackboard in the past to modern solutions, it poses many limitations in today’s technologically advanced world. Furthermore, it helps develop skills needed for future-facing jobs in STEM areas (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) or arts and design. .

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

With all the changes and challenges over the last year, one takeaway I keep reflecting on is how essential education technology has become to learning—and how quickly this transition occurred. No, technology couldn’t address every issue, and not all students had adequate access to tools or WiFi at home.

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