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WebAssign Unveils New Version of Blackboard Building Block
WebAssign, — Tuesday, July 17, 2012
WebAssign, the leading provider of powerful online instructional tools for college faculty and students now in its 15th year, has released its latest version of their Blackboard Building Block. WebAssign's enhanced Version 2.0 provides new functionality to meet current users' growing needs .... Read More »
Study.Net and Inkling Partner on Interactive Textbook Chapters for Coursepacks
Study.Net, Inkling — Saturday, July 14, 2012
Study.Net and Inkling, the premier platform for interactive textbooks in higher education, announce a new partnership today. Inkling’s library of titles is now integrated into Study.Net, so that educators can add textbook chapters to their class’s digital coursepack, alongside case studies from leading publishers. Read More »
Blackboard and Ingram To Integrate VitalSource Bookshelf and Blackboard Learn
Blackboard Inc., Ingram — Saturday, July 14, 2012
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 e-textbook platform directly within Blackboard Learn™... The planned integration would be available for users both online and for mobile devices. Read More »
NAU and Pearson Launch Region’s First Competency-based Online Learning Programs
Pearson — Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Northern Arizona University (NAU) and Pearson today announced a partnership to create the region’s first competency-based online learning degree programs, as part of NAU’s new Personalized Learning Division. Pearson will collaborate closely with NAU to design more than 90 completely online competency-based courses. The courses will be offered through the Pearson LearningStudio online learning platform. Read More »
Tyler Junior College Selects Ellucian
Ellucian — Monday, July 02, 2012
Tyler Junior College (TJC) has licensed a comprehensive suite of solutions from Ellucian to help deliver more personalized and comprehensive support for students during a period of record enrollment. The expanded services and new analytical capabilities will be delivered without a significant increase in staff hours and are expected to help increase the number of students who will complete a degree. Read More »
Blackboard and Pearson Launch Integration
Blackboard Inc.; Pearson — Monday, July 02, 2012
Blackboard Inc. and Pearson today announced a new integration for using Pearson's MyLab / Mastering within Blackboard's flagship learning management system (LMS). The systems integration includes single sign-on, gradebook, improved workflows and state of the art Web services that enable instructors to find and access MyLab / Mastering directly in Blackboard Learn ™. Read More »
Pearson Announces Deeper Integration Between EQUELLA 5.2 Digital Repository and Moodle
Pearson — Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Pearson today announced the upcoming release of EQUELLA 5.2 (QA 2), the latest version of the digital repository that enables users to search, create and manage content online. This release of EQUELLA introduces advanced integration capabilities with Moodle 2.3, the latest version of the popular learning management system, which has been released. Read More »
North Dakota State University Selects Turning Technologies as Campus-Wide Clicker Provider
Turning Technologies — Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Turning Technologies, the global leader in the student response industry, adds North Dakota State University to its list of institutions to standardize support around the company's student response solutions. After a semester-long pilot, North Dakota State University has selected ResponseCard® NXT as the centrally supported clicker device. Read More »
Ithaca College Selects Turning Technologies as Campus-Wide Clicker Provider
Turning Technologies — Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Turning Technologies adds Ithaca College to its list of institutions to standardize support around the company's student response solutions. After the completion of an independent evaluation period of Turning's polling solution and a competing solution, Ithaca College has selected the ResponseCard® NXT as the centrally supported clicker device. Read More »
UniversityNow Secures $17.3 Million Funding To Build Network of Low-Cost, Accredited U.S. Universities
UniversityNow — Saturday, June 23, 2012
UniversityNow today announced that it has raised $17.3 million in Series B funding ...The funding will enable UniversityNow to expand the program offerings at New Charter University, the innovative, highly affordable university it launched in March, and grow its network of partner schools. It will also enable UniversityNow to expand its operations in order to serve more students. Read More »
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