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But as far as I know, Blackboard (or Moodle or Sakai or...) data is stored locally at your institution, not housed on a Google server somewhere. I think the dat

by Steuard 12y ago

But as far as I know, Blackboard (or Moodle or Sakai or...) data is stored locally at your institution, not housed on a Google server somewhere. I think the data mining possibilities are much lower in that case. I'm all in favor of disruptive competition in that market, mind you! But I don't think it's easy.

cbhl 12y ago
Not true. Blackboard has a cloud offering. Plus, many competing products also rely on centralized servers.
- stephenr 12y ago
  What little information I can find, indicates that Blackboard is self-hostable, and that the "hosted" option they provide is actually an extra service. The argument is against a solution that has no possibility for self-hosting and maintaining control of data. That they offer a hosted/SaaS option is irrelevant, because they also offer a regular self-hosted solution.