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By Dian Schaffhauser 02/23/21 Instructure is selling the corporate side of its learning management system business for $50 million. The buyer will be Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG), a UK company with multiple businesses that produce services and technologies for digital learning and talent management. The Bridge software-as-a-service platform provides functionality for managing learning, performance and skills development. While the division generated $21 million for Instructure in the last fiscal year, it saw a loss of $1.3 million during the same period. According to the companies, t...

02/17/21 A new white paper out of the University of Utah's Sorenson Impact Center outlines five ways to move higher education toward a student-equity-centric future. The Center, an academic "think-and-do tank" focused on solving problems through data and innovation, convened students, researchers, practitioners and institutional leaders to identify key issues in higher ed through the lens of student equity. The effort is part of the Center's MAPS Project, the same initiative that recently created a data dashboard tracking the impact of COVID-19 on higher ed.    "Student-equity-centric" was ...

Google announced a spate of changes to its education offerings, including a renaming of its education bundle of productivity applications and a limit to free storage for schools and colleges.

By Dian Schaffhauser 02/17/21 Google just announced that the education world would see 40 new Chromebooks along with accessibility improvements during this year. The announcements came during a 90-minute virtual session on "learning with Google." (Replays of the event will be available for viewing by registered users after Feb. 19, 2021.) Among the updates will be a new screen recording tool built into the Chrome OS, available in March. The tool will enable both teachers and students to record lessons and reports in the classroom and at home. The company has also updated ChromeVox, its screen...

The "Standard" edition, $3 per student per year, adds a security center; device and application management; logging for Gmail and Classroom analytics; and audit logs for Drive, devices and LDAP. The company said this edition would be available soon. The "Teaching and Learning" upgrade, $4 per license per month and also expected soon, includes all of that as well as a Meet capacity of 250 participants and live streams up to 10,000 viewers; additional engagement features for Google Meet, such as Q&As, polls and breakout rooms; and plagiarism checking across a private repository of student work....