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University of Phoenix Leadership Present at WCET Annual Meeting

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Friday, November 3, 2023
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University of Phoenix is pleased to share that two members of its leadership team presented at the WCET Annual Meeting , held October 25-27 in New Orleans, LA.

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  • University of Phoenix is pleased to share that two members of its leadership team presented at the WCET Annual Meeting , held October 25-27 in New Orleans, LA.
  • The three-day event brought together higher education professionals to share advances in digital learning practices and to explore emerging policy challenges facing institutions and organizations.
  • “University of Phoenix has adapted skills-mapped programming to help bridge the skills gap that today’s employers are facing,” shares Savron.
  • In her role as vice provost of University of Phoenix, she oversees strategy for degree, certificate and course offerings, design of curriculum and student learning outcomes for the University.

University of Phoenix Leadership present at EDUCAUSE Event

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Monday, October 23, 2023
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University of Phoenix is pleased to share that four members of its leadership team presented at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, held, October 9-12 in Chicago, IL.

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  • University of Phoenix is pleased to share that four members of its leadership team presented at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, held, October 9-12 in Chicago, IL.
  • “I am honored to present at EDUCAUSE and discuss how University of Phoenix has leveraged change management and made it part of its DNA when pursuing large scale initiatives,” shared Booker.
  • A veteran of University of Phoenix or 25 years, Hallock is a Senior Director of Change Management and Prosci Certified Change Practitioner.
  • In her role as vice provost of University of Phoenix, she oversees strategy for degree, certificate and course offerings, design of curriculum and student learning outcomes for the University.

1EdTech Announces Upcoming Retirement of Chief Executive Officer in 2024

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023
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LAKE MARY, Fla., Aug. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The 1EdTech® Board of Directors today announced that long-time CEO, Rob Abel, Ed.D., will retire on April 30, 2024. The board will conduct a search and selection process with a third-party recruiting company to hire a new CEO in the first quarter 2024. 1EdTech will create a web page providing the status of the search and selection process.

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  • LAKE MARY, Fla., Aug. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The 1EdTech® Board of Directors today announced that long-time CEO, Rob Abel, Ed.D., will retire on April 30, 2024.
  • The board will conduct a search and selection process with a third-party recruiting company to hire a new CEO in the first quarter 2024.
  • 1EdTech will create a web page providing the status of the search and selection process.
  • 1EdTech will honor Abel's retirement at the June 2024 Learning Impact event in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, June 3-6, 2024.

1EdTech Members Work Together to Make Tracking Student Progress Simpler for Teachers

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Friday, March 3, 2023
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LAKE MARY, Fla., March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Education technology suppliers are collaborating via the non-profit 1EdTech™ Consortium to make it much easier for teachers to get real-time information on student progress from all the learning applications in a single place.

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  • Since its original release this fall, 16 products have been certified for 1EdTech's OneRoster® 1.2 open standard.
  • "This is what happens when educators and suppliers work together, with no agenda other than to find the best solutions to power learner potential."
  • The student information systems certified by 1EdTech for OneRoster 1.2 currently include Digital Koumu Student Information System, Focus SIS, Infinite Campus, and PowerSchool eSchoolPlus SIS.
  • Educators interested in seeing what products are certified for OneRoster 1.2, or any other 1EdTech certification, may view the TrustEd Apps Directory .

Educational Leaders Elected to 1EdTech Board of Directors

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Thursday, January 19, 2023
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LAKE MARY, Fla., Jan. 19, 2023  /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- 1EdTech (formerly IMS Global) added eight new directors for 2023 and re-elected one incumbent via its annual member board election process.

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  • LAKE MARY, Fla., Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- 1EdTech (formerly IMS Global) added eight new directors for 2023 and re-elected one incumbent via its annual member board election process.
  • Paul Czarapata, president of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, will be the 1EdTech board chair for 2023.
  • Melissa Loble, chief customer experience officer at Instructure, will be the board vice-chair for 2023.
  • "The leadership from our board and our Contributing Members are having a profound impact on educational institutions' ability to accelerate and scale both strategic and operational innovation."

Students can now submit assignments through their phone on the Gradescope Mobile App

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Monday, July 11, 2022
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OAKLAND, Calif., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, leading education technology solutions provider Turnitin, announced the global release of the Gradescope by Turnitin mobile application for students to submit their assignments. This follows the successful United States pilot on April 21, 2022 of the Gradescope Mobile App. The App is available on the App Store and Google Play.

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  • Via the Gradescope Mobile App, students can take photos of single- or multiple-page assignments or select files on their smartphones and upload them directly to their course.
  • On the app, students can also view their enrolled courses, assignments, due dates, and grade notificationswhenever and wherever students may be located.
  • The Gradescope Mobile App eliminates the extra step of using a third-party app or web browser every time students need to submit an assignment.
  • During its two-month United States release, more than 3,000 assignments were submitted via the Gradescope Mobile App.

IMS Global Learning Consortium Becomes the 1EdTech Consortium

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Wednesday, May 25, 2022
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LAKE MARY, Fla., May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The world's leading non-profit collaborative in educational technology and digital learning has a new look and new name. Today, IMS Global Learning Consortium officially launched its new brand, 1EdTech™ Consortium.

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  • Today, IMS Global Learning Consortium officially launched its new brand, 1EdTech Consortium.
  • The new 1EdTech brand has been under development with input from across the IMS member community for several years.
  • As IMS and now as 1EdTech, the community will continue its pivotal role in enabling digital learning innovation.
  • 1EdTech hosts the annual Learning Impact conference and other engagement opportunities to advance the leadership and ideas that shape the future of learning.

Identity Automation and Infinite Campus Partner To Offer School Districts Streamlined Identity Management Solutions

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Thursday, May 19, 2022
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Under the partnership, schools using Infinite Campus are able to quickly and easily deploy an enterprise-level identity management solution through Identity Automation that addresses the many protection requirements created by today's all-encompassing, multi-device and multi-location academic environments.

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  • Under the partnership, schools using Infinite Campus are able to quickly and easily deploy an enterprise-level identity management solution through Identity Automation that addresses the many protection requirements created by today's all-encompassing, multi-device and multi-location academic environments.
  • The partnership between Identity Automation and Infinite Campus marks Identity Automation's latest effort to serve as a notable driver of efficiency and protection while also serving as a needed accompaniment to the many other non-security related services offered to schools.
  • "This partnership with Infinite Campus, and their long track record of successful relationships with school districts enables both of our organizations to serve as a joint valuable provider of security and enablement through identity-based IT and security solutions."
  • Identity Automation provides identity and access management (IAM) solutions for K-12 and higher education.

Can You Trust the Ed Tech Used by Your School?

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Wednesday, May 11, 2022
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Does your school select products that are certified to have a research-based design and vetted as privacy secure?

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  • Does your school select products that are certified to have a research-based design and vetted as privacy secure?
  • A recent poll commissioned in the United Kingdom by Teacher Tapp revealed that 79 percent of teachers there don't trust company claims.
  • Digital Promise awards its Research-Based Design Product Certification to products that prove their design is based on scientific research about how students learn.
  • Teachers and specialists can also make their own Boom Cards to share with colleagues or sell to other educators.

Pivot Interactives Announces Iris™--NewTechnology to Increase Active Phenomena-Based Learning

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Wednesday, May 11, 2022
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MINNEAPOLIS, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Pivot Interactives introduces a new set of tools, Iris™, which make learning critical science concepts—such as heat transfer, Beer's Law, light emission, population density, temperature (infrared and blackbody), pH, and wavelength—accessible to students regardless of classroom equipment or teacher experience. With this new patent-pending collection of color and light measuring tools, students can now take quantitative measurements of color & light for themselves directly from information encoded in a video within a web browser.

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  • Teachers may access Iris tools through the Pivot Interactives license, which integrates with several learning management systems, including Canvas, Blackboard Learn, and D2L Brightspace.
  • Pivot Interactives has achieved the IMS Global Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) Certification and IMS TrustEd App for data privacy.
  • Now, teachers worldwide are using Pivot Interactives to engage over 1 million students with phenomena and science practices.
  • Pivot Interactives, an award-winning platform, continues to innovate to revolutionize science education because science has the power to change lives.