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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Textbooks, blackboards, and overhead projectors remain the tools of choice for many teachers, at a time when their students are geared to learn from iPads, PowerPoint, and instant messaging. The result is a lost message, and a lost opportunity.

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Creating Engaging Courses for Professional Training

Academy of Mine

Depending on your age, if you were in high school or college in the past 10 years, you were probably using Blackboard or Canvas to manage courses online. When it comes to modality of training, schools usually adopt technology a lot slower than say, private sector businesses. This isn’t a big deal for most universities.

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Blended Learning Becoming Standard

LearnDash

It is a great time to start-up with blended learning as we are now seeing the massive adoption across many sectors of society. Blackboard. Evaluate what works and what does not work – substituting the less effective tools and methodology for new ones. Sources: Innosite Institute. Charter School Growth Fund.

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Digital Badges for Educational Achievement

Web Courseworks

Since then, adoption of “badging,” as it has come to be known, has been steadily increasing: Mozilla put on a grant-funded competition to help a variety of organizations develop their own badge programs. The latest version of Blackboard Learn as well as recent versions of Moodle and our own CourseStage all have badging capabilities.

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Moodle 2.9 Pre-Release Announcement

Lambda Solutions

With more than 70 million users, Moodle is the clear market leader, with almost double the adoption of the two subsequent vendors, SumTotal and Blackboard, combined. Moodle is the world’s leading Learning Management System. Moodle is already far ahead of its competition, and 2.9 gives it even more edge.

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Observations of a Critical Theory newbie

E-Learning Provocateur

Those who adopt new technologies will go forth and conquer, while those who resist will lag behind. My problem with Friesen’s argument this time around is that since the dawn of time, technologies from paper to blackboards, from computers to smartphones, have changed education. Shoot the messenger.

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Best LMS Software in California & Los Angeles: Top Picks for 2025

Paradiso Solutions

While headquartered in Seattle, this powerful learning management system is widely adopted by California-based tech companies and SaaS providers needing robust partner training and external education solutions. Blackboard Learn Best for Higher Education Blackboard remains the gold standard for LMS in California higher education.

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