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Pittinsky left Blackboard in 2008 after completing his Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from Columbia University through Teachers College. After earning his Ph.D., he was hired as an assistant professor of sociology at Arizona State University in January 2009.
Apr 1, 2022 · In 1997, Pittinsky and Michael Chasen, CAS/BS ’93, cofounded Blackboard, growing the learning management platform into a $1.64 billion company before selling it in 2011. Today, Pittinsky is still taking a red pen to education as CEO of Parchment, a digital credential provider.
Nov 17, 2012 · By Steven Pearlstein. November 17, 2012 at 6:16 p.m. EST. Michael Chasen loves to tell the story of the day he and his roommate from American University, Matthew Pittinsky, left their jobs as...
- Colleges Really Are Different
- Beware Proximity to The Instructional CORE
- Colleges and Universities Value What They Pay For
- Don’T Blame The Education Market If You Fail
- Déjà Vu All Over Again
Colleges and universities are decentralized and “loosely coupled.” Academic units often act independently, while faculty operate in relatively autonomous classroom environments.The administrative side, meanwhile, is divided into rigid professional categories and domains of responsibility—student life, registrar, academic affairs, career office—each...
In most industries, a pretty smart strategy is to identify the core productive activity of the organization and improve it. The closer you are to that core and the more value you add, the more rent you can extract. This is tricky in education, in part because colleges and universities strive to achieve multiple, sometimes conflicting, outcomes. And...
While it’s tempting to give away your product free of charge to get a pilot going, or overcome budget objections, don’t do it. I remember Casey Green describing the “higher ed handshake” as one in which the hand is open palm out. Universities often ask to get a product for free, promising to be a reference or case study. I do not doubt their sincer...
While “It’s me, not you,” may explain why some relationships fail, it’s a cop-out when it comes to explaining failure in ed tech. It’s us. It’s always ultimately us. Sure, we can complain about slow sales cycles and buyer shortsightedness. The market is fragmented and purchase does not equal adoption. The stereotype of the Luddite faculty member or...
In short, building a higher-ed technology startup is hard—even my second time around, leading Parchment. Back in 1997, Michael Chasen and I would rationalize that expertise was overrated. We didn’t know what we didn’t know, and our “fresh perspective” (read: inexperience and ignorance) allowed us to approach things differently. Now it’s twenty year...
Blackboard LLC. was founded on January 21, 1997 by Michael Chasen and Matthew Pittinsky and began as a consulting firm contracting to the non-profit IMS Global Learning Consortium to develop a prototype for online learning and thinking through online learning standardization. [14]
Feb 28, 2003 · As college roommates, we had an idea: putting college applications online. Sure, it sounded like a good idea, but when it came time to graduate, we figured it was time to get “real jobs.” After...
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Pittinsky is the co-founder of Blackboard, Inc., a company that provides software for teachers and students to organize their coursework online that is used by more than 12 million people at more than 2,000 colleges, schools and companies. He founded the company in 1997 and served as its Chairman or, as he puts it, “the Education Guy.”
