Blackboard Gets Bought
he e-learning giant, known for gobbling up smaller companies, is gobbled up by a private equity firm. What does it mean for customers? SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed Read the Full Article
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Apollo Climbs After Earnings Beat Analysts’ Estimates
July 1 (Bloomberg) — Apollo Group Inc. (APOL), operator of the University of Phoenix and the biggest U.S. for-profit college, rose 6.4 percent on the Nasdaq Stock Market after quarterly earnings and revenue beat analysts’ estimates. SOURCE: BloomsbergRead the Full Article
The Future of Blackboard
As a Gartner research director and previously a faculty member and administrator at three different universities, Marti Harris has been monitoring the higher education software and services segment for a long time. SOURCE: Campus TechnologyRead the Full Article
Providence Equity in Lead to Buy Blackboard, Bloomberg Says
Providence Equity is the leading candidate to buy Blackboard Inc., the dominant course-management software company in higher education, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing an anonymous source. Blackboard announced in April that it was considering takeover offers from unnamed bidders. SOURCE: Wired Campus Read the Full Article
Studies Find Feds, Companies Nationwide Share Similar Views of Telework
Telework is now the law of the land for federal employees, and based on the results of a recent survey, it appears that teleworkers nationwide share many of the same likes, dislikes and concerns about working remotely as their federal colleagues.SOURCE: Microsoft CorporationRead the Full Article
Middle-class teens opt for online university learning to save money
More middle-class teenagers are taking up remote learning because they can not afford to go away to university, a new vice-chancellor has suggested. SOURCE: The Times (London) Read the Full Article
Professors collect big bucks for online classes
The University of Iowa has capped the number of online students and courses that faculty members can teach after discovering a handful of professors received hefty bonuses for teaching up to three times more classes than their regular loads, reports the Des Moines Register. Read the Full Article
‘Free Market’ for Higher Ed
Larry Johnson is a self-described “entrepreneur from hell,†so it’s of little surprise that the University of Cincinnati dean likes the plan for a new budgeting system on campus.Read the Full Article
US Corporate eLearning Market Reached $5.2 Billion in 2007
The recession is a growth catalyst for certain types of products and servicesRead the Full Article
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