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Blackboard To Acquire Elluminate and Wimba
Blackboard Inc. — Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Blackboard Inc. announced that it has entered into definitive agreements to acquire both Elluminate, Inc. and Wimba, Inc., two of the leading providers of synchronous learning and collaboration technology to the education markets, for a total of approximately $116 million in cash, excluding transaction costs and subject to certain adjustments. Read More »
Cengage Learning Announces Streamlined Operating Structure
Cengage Learning — Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Cengage Learning announced that the company will consolidate its business units into one streamlined operating group, a new structure that will allow for greater synergies, more focused technology investments and increased innovation both domestically and internationally. Read More »
Questar Wins Augmented Benchmark Examinations Program Contract for Arkansas
Questar Assessment, Inc. — Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Questar Assessment, Inc. announced a contract award from the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) for the Augmented Benchmark Examinations program (Benchmark), part of the Arkansas Comprehensive Testing, Assessment, and Accountability Program. Read More »
MCH Announces New Company Name, Logo, and Web Address
MCH Strategic Data — Tuesday, June 29, 2010
MCH Inc. CEO Peter E. Long announced today that the company would now do business under a new name, MCH Strategic Data. The company has been known simply as MCH since 2001. In addition, the company has a new logo and a new web address – www.mchdata.com. Read More »
Next Generation Search Tool Powers Research and eLearning
Focus Marketing, Inc. — Monday, June 28, 2010
Educational technology marketing experts, Focus Marketing, Inc. and next generation search tool developers, TigerLogic Corporation (Nasdaq: TIGR), today announced the availability of yolink enhanced search tools for SellingToSchools.com (STS). Read More »
Journey Education Marketing Becomes New Microsoft® Software Large Account Reseller
Journey Education Marketing, Inc. — Monday, June 28, 2010
Journey Education Marketing, Inc. drives growth full speed ahead as the first new Large Account Reseller (LAR) named by Microsoft® in the U.S.A. in over a decade. Online sales champion Journey has been on a course of rapid growth over the last few years... Read More »
Mindset Works™ Wins Contract from DOE To Develop Tools To Raise Student Motivation & Achievement
Mindset Works — Monday, June 28, 2010
Mindset Works™ was awarded an $849,000 contract by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to develop its Growth Mindset Learning Platform. The Growth Mindset —students’ belief that their intelligence can be developed— has been shown to increase students’ motivation, grades, and achievement test scores. Read More »
US DOE U.S. Awards ScholarCentric Small Business Innovation Research Grant;
ScholarCentric — Monday, June 28, 2010
ScholarCentric has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research award by the U.S. Department of Education to fund the development of a new technology platform for ScholarCentric’s successful Success Highways product line: combination of university developed assessment, curriculum and professional development. Read More »
RM Education Announces Launch of New Branding Image
RM Education — Friday, June 25, 2010
RM Education, the U.S. division of RM, a worldwide supplier of technology-based curriculum products for education, announced today the launch of its new branding image, exemplified by its new logo. The new tagline “Inspiring Engaging Learning” reinforces RM’s commitment to creating tomorrow’s K-12 schools today. Read More »
Teachscape Expands Its Operations in San Francisco
Teachscape — Wednesday, June 23, 2010
In response to the rapid growth of the company, and to consolidate offices to one location, Teachscape has taken new, larger office space in downtown San Francisco. The new office space will house the majority of Teachscape’s employees and executives. Read More »
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