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Re:Google and Pearson Announce Free LMS Service to Compete with Blackb... on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @03:21PM (#3126684)
It is hosted by Pearson. It is a cloud based service just like Google Apps. They do have a revenue model, although I am not sure it has been completely released yet.
Re:Google and Pearson Announce Free LMS Service to Compete with Blackb... on Monday October 17, 2011 @01:19PM (#3121406)
Our school is actually one of the beta testers, and I think it is important to point out that it is not actually a Google product, but a Pearson product. So although it is available through the Marketplace and plays nicely with Apps, it is not provided by Google.

Ask HN: A Web Programming Curriculum that Would Actually Provide Value

Posted by keni on Friday September 23, 2011 @09:40AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have a friend who is a program chair for a web development academic program at a large community college. I have told him that most of the students I see leaving their program are just not prepared and have to bootstrap a lot of knowledge on their own, making it hard for them to get a job. In the program today they tend to focus so much on skills like HTML and FrontPage/dreamweaver that a...

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