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Blackboard Joins Internet2 -- Campus Technology

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Blackboard is joining nonprofit education technology consortium Internet2.
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A quote about the LMS

“The proliferation of learning management systems suggests that no one system is sufficiently feature rich, or adequately flexible and extensible enough to meet everyone’s needs or even most institutions’ requirements."

Ira Fuchs, vice president for research in information technology, Mellon Foundation. (2004, July) Learning Management Systems: Are we there yet?
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I've always loved this quote and while it is over 10 years old now, it is still are relevant as it was back then. I've always said "An LMS is an LMS is an LMS" It's not the tool you use but how you use it. Good learning design can work in whatever environment it is given and still work. In saying that, it's nice to have a wide pallette of tools available to craft with and make our educational visions a reality.
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How to Enhance Students' Experience in Blackboard Learn: The UX Way

How to Enhance Students' Experience in Blackboard Learn: The UX Way | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
Upon a new LMS implementation over an institution, it’s not unusual to get detailed instructions from academic leadership, instructors, marketing, or other departments, stating they know their users, how to structure the virtual campus and what must be in a particular place of a given template. It could be a headline, a tab, a button, or a whole page structure. They might be right, of course, but Why don’t ask end-users in the first place to -at least- prove your point?

That’s the so-called UX way: putting user’s experience in the center of every decision-making process.
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Michael D Sankey on Twitter: "A point in time glimpse of LMS use across Australian and New Zealand Universities (as best as I understand it) @ACODEnews… https://t.co/wG8otvCPWx"

LMS use in Australia and NZ.
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Kits: Building the NGDLE Outside the LMS

Kits: Building the NGDLE Outside the LMS | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
The ideal academic technology strategy should support the diversity of disciplinary and pedagogical needs.
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Blackboard Launches Chatbot for Student Support

Blackboard has added a live conversation simulation tool to its suite of student support offerings.
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Learning management system switches slow down

Learning management system switches slow down | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
Institutions aren’t switching learning management systems as often as they used to. What does that mean for companies looking to win new customers?
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Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE) | EDUCAUSE

Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE) | EDUCAUSE | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
In April 2017 the next generation digital learning environment (NGDLE) celebrated its two-year anniversary. The shift to a component-based NGDLE approach allows us all to adopt an architect's perspective and continue our work to design the learning environments we want and need.  Explore our library resources on what will the future of the Learning Management System (LMS) looks like.
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All About LMSs 

All About LMSs  | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
Introduction to LMSs When engaging in this lesson, be sure to do the following: Follow the links that you are directed to in each section View the videos in their entirety Use the questions to prompt your thinking in your Reflection and Participation Journal What are common LMSs?  Which systems are most often used in…
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Things to Avoid When Selecting LMS

Things to Avoid When Selecting LMS | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
7 Things to avoid when selecting a learning management system. Learn about responsive design, secure systems, hidden costs of an LMS and contracts
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LENA Report Published

LENA Report Published | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
Learning Environment Needs Analysis (LENA) The Learning Environment Needs Analysis (LENA) project is sponsored by the University of Wisconsin System Learn@UW Executive Committee (L@UWEC) and financially supported by all UW institutions through Common Systems Review Group funding. The LENA project is a continuation of a multi‐year UW System effort to: Understand the current and future [...]
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A Comparative Study of Strategies and Lessons Learned in Recent MOODL…

A Comparative Study of Strategies and Lessons Learned in Recent MOODLE Training in Tonga, Samoa, Papa New Guinea, Botswana and South Africa Introduction Backgr…
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Instructure is not "the New Blackboard"

Instructure is not "the New Blackboard" | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
Yesterday, I wrote about my experiences at the recent IMS Learning Impact Leadership Institute. Today, I'm going to write about a sentence that I heard uttered several times while at that summit. One
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Moodlerooms Becomes Blackboard Open LMS

Blackboard is rebranding its open source learning management system. The LMS formerly known as Moodlerooms will now be called Blackboard Open LMS. The company said it's also "accelerating investment and development of the product."
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The End of Blackboard as a Standalone EdTech Company

The End of Blackboard as a Standalone EdTech Company | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
Phil Hill's blog - making sense of EdTech, bringing together insights from people you can trust.
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Blackboard - Webinar Training Series: Accelerate Your Transition to Remote Instruction

Free webinar series to getting started with teaching online
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The Instructure LMS Data Points

The Instructure LMS Data Points | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
I have been tuned into the discussion of the LMS provider Infrastructure by a private equity firm lately because of my exposure to my partner in crimes world of Ed-Tech. I have also written several stories about the LMS providers API in the past, and I find the recent discussion around the economics of the business interesting in several ways. For me, the conversation represents what I consider to be the fundamentals of the API economy, a phrase we like to throw around in the API sector. Most
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Learning Management Provider Instructure Weighing Options - Including Sale

Instructure, which owns the widely used learning management system Canvas, says it is considering putting itself up for sale, or going private.
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Did Instructure Refute LMS Market Slowdown? It’s a matter of semantics

Did Instructure Refute LMS Market Slowdown? It’s a matter of semantics | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
Instructure is changing definitions of what Canvas is, confusing the subject of whether the LMS market is slowing
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H5P to be integrated in Moodle Core

H5P to be integrated in Moodle Core | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
We’re thrilled to announce that H5P is soon to be integrated in Moodle core. We will be getting hundreds of millions of new community members for Christmas!
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Stepping into the T process: a chat with Dr Moira Scerri

Stepping into the T process: a chat with Dr Moira Scerri | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
How can we ensure a logical path through a course made up of many discrete subjects? And how can we cultivate cumulative building of knowledge & skills as our students move through a course? These questions are fundamental to the UTS LX Transformation and, hopefully, their answers can be found in the Whole of Course …
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State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: 2019 Mid-Year Edition

State of Higher Ed LMS Market for US and Canada: 2019 Mid-Year Edition | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
Phil Hill's blog - making sense of EdTech, bringing together insights from people you can trust.
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Trustees approve new learning management system contract - Purdue University News

Trustees approve new learning management system contract - Purdue University News | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
Purdue’s Board of Trustees approved on Friday (Aug. 2) an agreement with Desire2Learn (D2L) for its product, Brightspace, to become the university’s next systemwide learning management system.
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Designing a Digital Learning Environment for the University of Wisconsin System

Designing a Digital Learning Environment for the University of Wisconsin System | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
With its LMS contract set to expire, the University of Wisconsin System set out to reimagine its systemwide learning technology platform to better har
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Strategically using LMS in business to improve quality and culture. By @KinashInAus

Strategically using LMS in business to improve quality and culture.
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University of Melbourne taps Canvas as new LMS

University of Melbourne taps Canvas as new LMS | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
Blackboard to be replaced by early 2020.
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Moodle Drops Blackboard

Moodle Drops Blackboard | Blackboard Tips, Tricks and Guides | Scoop.it
Open source software company Moodle today announced it is ending its partnership with Blackboard.
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