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  2. Michael Chasen - Wikipedia

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    Michael Chasen is an American businessman. He is a co-founder and former CEO of Blackboard Inc., a position he held from 1999 to 2012. In April 2013, Chasen co-founded SocialRadar, a technology startup company developing a location-based social app. In 2020, he co-founded ClassEDU, the maker of Class For Zoom, which aims to improve the ...

  3. William L. Ballhaus - Wikipedia

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    Occupation. Businessman. William L. Ballhaus (born c. 1967) is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and third-generation aerospace engineer. Since 2016, he has served as the Chairman, President and CEO of Blackboard Inc. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of DynCorp, a global government services provider, from 2008 to 2010.

  4. Blackboard system - Wikipedia

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    A blackboard system is the central space in a multi-agent system. It's used for describing the world as a communication platform for agents. To realize a blackboard in a computer program, a machine readable notation is needed in which facts can be stored. One attempt in doing so is a SQL database, another option is the Learnable Task Modeling ...

  5. Blackboard Jungle - Wikipedia

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    Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 American social drama film about an English teacher in an interracial inner-city school, based on the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks. It is remembered for its innovative use of rock and roll in its soundtrack, for casting grown adults as high ...

  6. History of virtual learning environments in the 1990s - Wikipedia

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    The patent is referenced in a 2000 patent filing (# 6,988,138) by representatives of BlackBoard, Inc. XT001 Renewable energy , a "landmark" experimental course developing techniques for collaborative and resource-based online learning at a distance, was the first "real" course to use FirstClass as its core online tool at the Open University.

  7. Universal Technical Institute - Wikipedia

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    Universal Technical Institute, Inc. (UTI) is a private for-profit system of technical colleges throughout the United States. The system offers specialized technical education programs under the banner of several brands, including Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Motorcycle Mechanics Institute and Marine Mechanics Institute (MMI), MIAT College of Technology (MIAT), and NASCAR Technical ...

  8. Blackboard (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A blackboard is a reusable writing surface. Look up blackboard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blackboard may also refer to: Black board (Soviet policy), sign used in the Soviet era publicly to chastise farms or factories for such things as failing to meet targets or opposing collectivisation. Blackboard bold, a style of typeface often used ...

  9. Instructure - Wikipedia

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    Instructure, Inc. Instructure, Inc. is an educational technology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It is the developer and publisher of Canvas, a web-based learning management system (LMS), and Mastery Connect, an assessment management system. Prior to its IPO in 2021, the company was owned by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo .