Archive for the ‘Learning Management Systems’ Category

UW-Madison moving from three online learning management systems to one

UW-Madison students and faculty are gradually transitioning to a single learning management system — a computer application that allows students and instructors to communicate about course materials, assignments and grades — from the three now used on campus. Madison.com

Blackboard to Release Updates to Blackboard Learn

New Workflows and Enhancements to Flagship Learning Management System will Support Educator & Student Efficiency PR Newswire

The Relationship Between an Online Synchronous Learning Environment and Knowledge Acquisition Skills and Traits: The Blackboard Collaborate Experience

 Online learning is becoming more attractive to perspective students because it offers them greater accessibility, convenience and flexibility to study at a reduced cost. While these benefits may attract prospective learners to embark on an online learning environment there remains little empirical evidence relating the skills and traits of knowledge acquisition with a synchronous online […]

State of learning management systems ‘verging on embarrassing’

FutureLearn’s Simon Nelson says universities must go through ‘organisational pain’ of prioritising learning technology or suffer the consequences Times Higher Education 

Campus Considers Learning Management System Switch

This fall, the University of Missouri-St. Louis is in the process of deciding whether to keep its current learning management system (LMS), Blackboard, or migrate to a different system called Canvas. The decision must be made by November 30 and input is being gathered from students, faculty, and staff about which system’s features will best […]

UT System partners with tech industry leader to develop next-generation learning platform

AUSTIN—The University of Texas System is developing a revolutionary technology learning platform — which includes an online marketplace of courses and credentials, real-time feedback and personalized support services  — bringing the benefits of a UT education to potential students across Texas and around the world. University of Texas System

New UT System online learning platform in development

The UT System is developing TEx, a new online learning platform, which will benefit students in the System and bring a UT education to potential students around the world. The Daily Texan 

Introducing a personal learning environment in higher education. An analysis of connectivity

Universities have a key role to play in the progress and development of the Knowledge Society. They should lead the way in the design of teaching strategies that promote knowledge building. Personal learning environments (PLE) represent a groundbreaking new development in educational practices through the incorporation of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), and an opportunity […]

SaaS Deployment For Blackboard Learn Available To Customers In Australia And New Zealand

SYDNEY, 29 August 2016 – Blackboard announced today at the annual Teaching and Learning Conference in Sydney that its flagship Learning Management System (LMS) Blackboard Learn (commonly referred to as Learn 9.1) is available as a software as a service (SaaS) solution to its customers in Australia and New Zealand. Delivered via the local Amazon […]

Canvas as OU’s replacement learning management system receives mixed reviews

Canvas will fully overtake Desire2Learn as OU’s learning management system in the summer of 2017, but the transition toward it has begun. OUDAILY