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An exclusive app you can’t afford to miss
The campus emergency app designed to simplify and improve students' crisis response is officially no longer higher education's best kept secret. In Case of Crisis, which eCampus News…
Students can now skip the line without being a jerk
Everybody hates waiting in line, but nobody likes a line skipper. Thanks to a new partnership between Blackboard and Qless, students will be able to skip lines without…
Amazing new security app hits the market
In a world where school shootings have become a common – appearing in headlines almost every other week – university officials are increasingly dependent on students, in addition…
The business of ed-tech: Plagiarism as education
Plagiarism detection technology is good for more than just a "gotch ya" moment for professors. Reinforcing academic integrity can also be a valuable, punishment-free lesson for students. That's…
Moodlerooms CEO: Blackboard acquisition will expand open-source movement
Lou Pugliese, CEO of Moodlerooms, said Blackboard’s purchase of his company and another firm that hosts and supports the popular open-source learning management system (LMS) Moodle should be…
Using an unmatched ed-tech resource over a daunting distance
Providing consistent access to high-quality education across a great distance has been one of the biggest challenges for Ivy Tech Community College's online program. Here's how the school…
Customers question tech industry’s takeover spree
The world’s largest technology companies have been on a buying spree, spending billions of dollars to snap up smaller companies. And often the buyers say they’re doing it…
Vendors link e-textbook content with LMS software
As digital textbooks become more common on higher-ed campuses, providers are making it easy for professors to share textbook notes and resources with students through their class learning…
Blackboard unveils system for disbursing student aid
Some college students will be able to use their allotted financial aid by swiping a debit card instead of waiting for paper checks to come to their dorm…