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Who is the CEO of Blackboard?

Rip Empson is a writer, explorer, eager learner and part-time rabble-rouser — whatever that means. ... Over the years, Blackboard has become one of the most familiar brands in the world of ...

Is blackboard’s user experience handicapped by feature creep?

Oct 31, 2012 · Rip Empson is a writer, explorer, eager learner and part-time rabble-rouser — whatever that means. ... Blackboard: With Both Co-founders Now Gone, It’s The End Of An Era For The Education ...

Is blackboard helping or hurting Higher Education’s software adoption?

Oct 11, 2021 · Jan 16, 2014 Rip Empson Over the years, Blackboard has become one of the most familiar brands in the world of education. Today, Blackboard’s learning management system (LMS) and educational tools...

What happened to Blackboard Transact?

Oct 20, 2012 · On Monday of this past week Michael Chasen announced that he is leaving Blackboard, the company he co-founded in 1997 and has led as CEO since 2001. Blackboard simultaneously announced the appointment of Jay Bhatt, a software industry executive as the immediate replacement. As Rip Empson has noted in TechCrunch, this is the end of an era.

How safe are school records? Not very, says student security researcher

If you can’t trust your bank, government or your medical provider to protect your data, what makes you think students are any safer? Turns out, according to one student security researcher, t...

Campuswire launches to redesign classroom communications

Tade Oyerinde is obsessed with communications inside educational institutions. A few years ago, while studying at Leeds University in England, he founded Gleepost, a Craigslist-like service targeti...

Blackboard cofounder Michael Chasen takes CEO reins at PrecisionHawk

Commercial drone tech venture PrecisionHawk has a new CEO—again. Red Hat Inc. cofounder Bob Young, who has served as PrecisionHawk’s CEO since July 2015, is handing over the reins to another vetera...

The LMS market glacier is melting

Phil Hill Contributor Phil Hill is a partner at MindWires Consulting, co-publisher of the e-Literate blog and co-producer of e-Literate TV. The world of edtech is strange and full of apparent contr...

Parchment Launches College Recommendation Engine So Applicants Can Hedge Their Bets

Hello, high school juniors. Stressed about graduation next year? Nervous about getting into college? Well Matthew Pittinsky, co-founder of the online education giant Blackboard and current chief ex...

Education Giant Blackboard Buys MyEdu To Help Refresh Its Brand And Reanimate Its User Experience

Over the years, Blackboard has become one of the most familiar brands in the world of education. Today, Blackboard’s learning management system (LMS) and educational tools are used in 75 perc...

Who is the Chief Financial Officer of Blackboard?

In 2019, Blackboard Inc., announced that Edwin Scholte will be appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

Who is the CEO of Blackboard?

is an American educational technology company with corporate headquarters in Reston, VA. It is known for Blackboard Learn, a learning management system. The company's CEO is William L. Ballhaus, formerly president and CEO of SRA International, who was also named chairman and president, on January 4, 2016, ...

What is Blackboard Analytics?

The Blackboard Analytics platform is a system for data warehousing and analysis, with applications for educational institutions to analyze student numbers, class scheduling, and financial information.

How much did Blackboard spend on acquisitions?

Between 2006 and 2012, the company spent more than $500 million on acquisitions.

When did Blackboard merge with CourseInfo?

Blackboard Inc. In 1998, after Cane met Chasen at a conference on adaptive learning, Gilfus and Cane decided to merge CourseInfo LLC. with Chasen and Pittinky's Blackboard LLC. company in order to raise money and scale the business. The combined company became a corporation known as Blackboard Inc. They renamed the CourseInfo platform built by ...

What percentage of colleges use blackboard?

Seventy-five percent of US colleges and universities and more than half of K–12 districts in the United States use its products and services, and 80 percent of the world's top academic institutions reportedly use Blackboard tools, according to Times Higher Education Reputation Ranking.

What is Blackboard's patent?

The patent established Blackboard's claims to the concept of connecting together web-based tools to create an interconnected university-wide course management system. The firm announced the patent on July 26, 2006, and on the same day it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against rival education software company Desire2Learn Inc. According to news reports, the awarding of the patent and the lawsuit against Desire2Learn led to concerns about patentability in the electronic learning community.

How AI is helping to make breast cancer history

With AI helping to diagnose patients earlier and enabling the rapid development of treatments, it is possible that in a few decades, we may no longer have the need for Breast Cancer Awareness Month...

Does the NFT craze actually matter?

Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, we talked about Apple’s subscription addiction. This week, I’m diving deep into whether there’s actually any meaning ...

Coinbase, Clubhouse and the inevitable conflict of competition

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. This week, cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase announce...

This Week in Apps: Apple appeals Epic Games suit, Google files a counterclaim and Twitter adds more ads

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a...

Analogue aspires to build the definitive OS for retro gaming

Analogue’s much-anticipated Pocket retro gaming machine will come with more than just sleek design and the ability to play tons of classic games. The device will be the first with AnalogueOS ...

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VC Lab introduces free fund formation documents to make startup investing cheaper and easier

There may be plenty of funding for some startups these days. But plenty of companies will tell you otherwise. VC Lab, an accelerator for venture capital firms, wants to create investors who will ba...