From ISACA JOHN DE SANTIS, PAST CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF HYTRUST, WILL SERVE AS BOARD CHAIR Schaumburg, IL, USA—Global digital trust association ISACA introduced its 2023-2024 Board of Directors today. Bringing deep tech, finance and business expertise and a strong global perspective, the board—including three new directors and ISACA CEO Erik Prusch—will be helmed by […]
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Going green at school isn’t just about student involvement. Teachers can learn how to make eco-conscious choices in the teacher’s lounge and when designing lesson plans, too.
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How did Blackboard help build #dctech? These original team members’ founding journeys explain. “We’re not the PayPal mafia, we didn’t go found Tesla after or anything like that, but I think that the network of the ex-Blackboard people that have gone on and done some pretty interesting things is large,” said Full Measure Education (and
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It’s time for another company profile and Brief History of Blackboard merger and Acquisitions. For this post, we want to paint the picture of one of the first LMS companies: Blackboard. Once the leading company in this product category, Blackboard diversified its corporate assets to curb the decline of revenues and to explore new business
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While most Cornell seniors are stressing over resumes and graduate school applications, Daniel Cane ’98 and Stephen Gilfus are concentrating on their company’s first academic marketing conference at the end of next month. Cane and Gilfus are founders of CourseInfo, a Cornell student and alumni company based in Ithaca. It produces academic software that helps
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Everybody in tech knows (and often deifies) the PayPal mafia, the group that sold PayPal and turned their initial success into seven “unicorn” companies worth more than $1B each. In founding these companies and investing in others, they changed Silicon Valley forever. Well, the same concept applies to other companies (albeit on a smaller scale).
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The Business of Ed-Tech Once a popular edTech Blogger this post written by Audrey Waters first appeared on Hack Education on December 23, 2013. Part 10 of my Top 10 Ed-Tech Trends of 2013 series. “Education is broken, and someone should fix it.” It’s not a new narrative. Nor is the pressure for schools to
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By Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed Syndicated News A one-hour phone conversation between officials at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a regional accreditor was necessary for the creation of one of the biggest developments in the MOOC craze. Whether that discussion was a regulatory burden or a courtesy call depends on whom you ask.
The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday approved a proposal to spend $113 million to implement new learning standards, an issue that became surprisingly controversial and contributed to the resignation of the district’s No. 2 administrator. The plan for the money launched a protracted discussion that spanned three meetings and three weeks. The purpose
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Business executives from a variety of fields continued a high-profile push to support the Common Core State Standards at an event in Washington today hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, stressing the importance of the standards to students’ ability to transition from school to the labor market and to improving the country’s
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