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I'd like to invite you to the WCET Leadership Summit: Under the Sword of Data, taking place in Salt Lake City, UT June 12-13. Reserve your hotel room at the Marriott Salt Lake City Center by May 20th to take advantage of the discounted rate of $149.  

The topic is data analytics, it’s titled Living Under the Sword of Data, with an eye on how data affects student success and strategies or interventions that...

Today NEA announced its investment in Desire2Learn, one of the largest and fastest growing cloud learning platforms for the education industry. The $80 million financing is the first ever for the company and is one of the largest investments we’ve made out of our new $2.6 billion fund. Over $1 trillion is spent on K-12 and higher education globally, and schools are in the midst of a technology renaissance that is reinventing the classroom ...

The Gilfus Education Group launched its new web presence today. President and CEO of the Gilfus Education Group, Stephen Gilfus, stated, “Over the past few months, we have been working on updating our website to reflect the latest in technology, enhancing the site’s representation of Gilfus Education Group activities, and expanding our Education Industry Insights capabilities.” The Gilfus Education Group has been working on a design that incorp...

Blackboard Inc. today updated its plan for supporting clients using the ANGEL learning management platform, extending support for the platform beyond its previously scheduled end date in 2014. Read More...

Blackboard Inc. today announced the launch of Blackboard Education Open Source Services, a new effort to support clients using open source education technologies. With the announcement, the company will continue to focus on its flagship Blackboard Learn ™ platform as well as ANGEL and Edline, while also helping institutions successfully manage open source learning management systems (LMS) including Moodle and Sakai.
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Blackboard Inc. today announced the appointment of Charles Severance, a longtime leader and one of the founders of the Sakai community, to a senior role to lead the company’s initiative on the Sakai open source learning management system (LMS).

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Blackboard Inc. announced a major investment in open source today with news that it has acquired Moodlerooms and NetSpot, two leading providers of open source online learning solutions to the education industry. Both organizations will continue to operate independently to support their clients.

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Enterprise Hive announces the general availability of Release 3.30 of HiveSocial and HiveSocial Now.

HiveSocial is the social knowledge platform that  powers the professional online communities of edu1world.org, Datatel +SGHE Commons, Chesapeake Academy, Atlanta Metropolitan College, GeorgiaBEST, and other education and not–for profit organizations.

This release contains significant enhancements that enrich the robust features of the plat...

Psst - Guess what??   Email a comment to a community is here!!!

Yep,  next week, the week of February 27th,  we will be uploading a major release of HiveSocial that will deliver this functionality plus a number of significant new features and enhancements that will directly benefit edu1world members. (HiveSocial is a product of Enterprise Hive and the platform that powers edu1world.)
 
Email a comment to a post in a community.  You asked for t...

I wanted to share with you an announcement that we have just made in regards to a grant program for HiveSocial communities from Enterprise Hive.  Following is the excerpt of our press release on this exciting new opportunity that is available to all edu1world members as well as other organizations who have a need for social professional communities.

Enterprise Hive Announces HiveSocial Grant Program

January 17, 2012 - Irvington, VA

Ente...