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  Blackboard To Go Private

  1563 readersThe academic tech company Blackboard announced lat last week that it has accepted a buy out offer. Founded in 1997, Blackboard is a global leader in learning solutions that improve the experience of students and learners around the world. Blackboard’s technologies allow thousands of colleges, public and private schools, as well as corporate

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  Blackboard To Go Private

  1661 readersThe academic tech company Blackboard announced lat last week that it has accepted a buy out offer. Founded in 1997, Blackboard is a global leader in learning solutions that improve the experience of students and learners around the world. Blackboard’s technologies allow thousands of colleges, public and private schools, as well as corporate

• Wiley and Blackboard Partner on Digital Learning Tool

  752 readers Blackboard has added WileyPlus content to its Blackboard Learn learning management system platform, which is used by nearly 2,000 educational institutions around the world. WileyPlus offers over 300 Wiley titles and is used in 20 countries around the world. The partnership promises users a single log-in that will give them ability to seamlessly move between courses and

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  McGraw-Hill now Offers Access to its Content From Any Campus Portal

  1878 readersMcGraw-Hill Education announced this week that it had accomplished a minor milestone in platform integration. College students and instructors now have 1 click access to McGraw-Hill content from just about any learning management system on the market (and a couple that shouldn’t be). McGraw-Hill Campus, its digital content platform, can easily be connected with an existing

• Ingram Vital Source Partners With Blackboard on E-Textbook Integration

  1038 readers PRESS RELEASE: Blackboard and Ingram Announce Plans to Integrate VitalSource Bookshelf and Blackboard Learn NEW ORLEANS—July 11, 2012—Blackboard customers will soon have a powerful new option for delivering e-textbooks on their campuses. Today, Blackboard Inc. and Ingram’s Vital Source Technologies, Inc. announced a global agreement to give students and faculty one-click access to Vital Source’s industry leading

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  Streaming Ebooks Into Schools

  386 readersSchools are starting to invest in digital reading for their students. For educational and trade publishers, this represents a juicy opportunity. Districts are buying thousands of devices and there are millions of students that are going to need content to read on them.   One problem, and it’s a big one: The distribution model for getting content

• Ingram’s E-Textbook Platform Adds Learning Outcomes Tools

  756 readers PRESS RELEASE: Ingram’s VitalSource® simplifies e-textbook integration and adds learning outcome support tools through IMS LTI v1.1 conformance NASHVILLE, TN – As more institutions implement sophisticated online learning programs for faculty and students, Vital Source®, the leading provider of e-textbook solutions in education, today announced their conformance certification for IMS Global Learning Consortium’s Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) v1.1

• Scholastic Launches Global Platform For Teachers, Students to Access Educational Material

  167 readers[Press Release]SCHOLASTIC LAUNCHES SCHOLASTIC LEARNING ZONE™, PROVIDING WEB-BASED ACCESS TO DIGITAL INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS FOR GLOBAL MARKETSToday Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, announced the launch of Scholastic Learning Zone, a platform through which teachers, students, and school administrators in international markets can access Scholastic’s growing portfolio of quality digital instructional programs with

• New Online Educational Library For Jewish Schools

  125 readers [Press Release] A First-of-its-Kind Online Library for Jewish Schools in the United States Israel’s Center for Educational Technology (CET) to Launch Online Library for Jewish Schools in the United States in Partnership With Behrman House Behrman House, the leading publisher of textbooks and digital learning materials for Jewish religious schools in North America, has entered a collaborative agreement

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  App of the Week: MaraMedia Educational Manuals

  1114 readersBy Teresa Demel MaraMedia uses Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to build educational digital manuals for students in grades 7-9. With a goal of supporting active participation in students’ education, MaraMedia provides opportunities for interaction with learning material, from acquiring new information to ultimately applying that information to the real world. My past career was in education, and