A group of learning management system (LMS) vendors announced an awards program at the IMS Global Learning Consortium Conference in San Diego, California, on Monday. Any qualifying app will receive $250; winners will receive an additional $1,000. “Edtech isn’t the ecosystem it should be,” Brian Whitmer, co-founder and chief product officer at Instructure, told InformationWeek. LMS makers Blackboard and Desire2Learn want to encourage developers to use the LTI standard for building applications.”]
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