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In October of that year, Canva announced that it had raised an additional A$85 million at a valuation of A$3.2 billion and launched an enterprise product. [20] In December 2019, Canva announced Canva for Education, a free product for schools and other educational institutions intended to facilitate collaboration between students and teachers. [21]
In 2019, Instructure acquired Portfolium and integrated their pathways, Program Assessment, and ePortfolio network into the Canvas. Portfolium is designed to simplify the assessment of student learning, showcase evidence of knowledge, and keep students engaged along pathways to prepare them for careers.
Melanie Perkins (born 1987) is an Australian technology entrepreneur, who is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Canva.She owns 18% of the company. [3]Perkins is one of the youngest female CEOs of a tech start-up valued over A$ 1 billion.
Similarly, 83% of students use an LMS for their learning, with the majority (56%) using them in most or all courses. Most institutions utilize LMSs by external vendors (77%), Blackboard currently dominates the LMS environment with an adoption rate of 31.9%, followed by Moodle at 19.1%, and Canvas at 15.3%. [30]
An LMS delivers and manages all types of content, including videos, courses, workshops, and documents. In the education and higher education markets, an LMS will include a variety of functionality that is similar to corporate but will have features such as rubrics, teacher and instructor-facilitated learning, a discussion board, and often the use of a syllabus.
Students enjoying the usage of technology in a school environment. A survey from Cambridge International [5] of nearly 20,000 teachers and students (ages 12–19) from 100 countries found that 48% of students use a desktop computer in class, 42% uses phones, 33% use interactive whiteboards and 20% use tablets.
Clifford Obrecht (born 1985 or 1986) is an Australian billionaire technology entrepreneur, who is the co-founder (with Melanie Perkins) and chief operating officer (COO) of Canva and owns 18% of the company. [1]
ANGEL Learning (acquired by Blackboard in May 2009); Click2Learn and Docent merged to become SumTotal Systems in 2004; CourseInfo LLC (precursor company to Blackboard, which became Blackboard's core technology, founded by Stephen Gilfus