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

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    TeamSpace's Learning Junction is an Internet-based training management system founded by several ex-Oracle employees. It was developed in Java. The program displayed a graphical list of courses, certification plans and needed skills. Students registered online, and were given an individualized learning plan. [108]

  3. Stephen Gilfus - Wikipedia

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    Stephen Gilfus is an American businessman, entrepreneur, architect and engineer known as "The Father of Modern E-Learning".He is a founder of Blackboard Inc. and CourseInfo LLC, where he held executive positions from 1997 to 2007.

  4. 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.

  5. Learning management system - Wikipedia

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    A learning management system (LMS) or virtual learning environment (VLE) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, automation, and delivery of educational courses, training programs, materials or learning and development programs. [1] The learning management system concept emerged directly from e ...

  6. Khan Academy - Wikipedia

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    Khan Academy is an American non-profit [3] educational organization created in 2006 by Sal Khan. [1] Its goal is to create a set of online tools that help educate students. [4] ...

  7. Blackboard - Wikipedia

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    Stick-slip effect with a chalk on a blackboard. Chalk sticks are produced in white and in various colours, especially for use with blackboards. White chalk sticks are made mainly from calcium carbonate derived from mineral chalk or limestone, while coloured chalk sticks are made from calcium sulphate in its dihydrate form, CaSO 4 ·2H 2 O, derived from gypsum.

  8. History of education in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    Common schools appeared in the 18th century, where students of all ages were under the control of one teacher in one room. They were publicly supplied at the local town level; they were not free but were supported by tuition or rate bills. The larger towns in New England opened grammar schools, the forerunner of the modern high school. [6]

  9. Plagiarism - Wikipedia

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    Given the serious consequences that plagiarism has for students, there has been a call for a greater emphasis on learning in order to help students avoid committing plagiarism. [84] This is especially important when students move to a new institution that may have a different view of the concept when compared with the view previously developed ...