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Mobile is important to students, and I like the time planning focus. OA managed not to mention that little issue about patents some years ago which made me smi
by keithpeter 11y ago
Mobile is important to students, and I like the time planning focus.
OA managed not to mention that little issue about patents some years ago which made me smile...
http://mfeldstein.com/all-44-blackboard-patent-claims-invalidated-by-uspto/ http://mfeldstein.com/all-44-blackboard-patent-claims-invali...
UK: many colleges use the open source Moodle as a 'virtual learning environment'. A tad less clunky than classic Blackboard in my personal opinion. Universities mostly have something and last time I checked the split was 50:50 Blackboard and Moodle. The acquisition of WebCT by Blackboard caused some annoyance in some HE circles I recollect. All ancient history now and I hope the new people can come up with something easier.
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoSomewhat confusingly, Blackboard now sell Moodle, via a subsidiary. For those not familiar with the sector, this is a bit like Microsoft's recent moves towards open source.
- keithpeter 11y agoThat would be a support contract they are selling I take it? I can see sense in that. Otherwise just... https://download.moodle.org/ https://download.moodle.org/
- jerrac 11y agoNot just a support contract. MoodleRooms (http://www.moodlerooms.com/ http://www.moodlerooms.com/) was acquired by Blackboard a while back. They provide fully managed Moodle hosting. They provide a decent enough service. I certainly like not having to manage Moodle's backend...
- keithpeter 11y agoThanks for link. People are doing hosting in UK as well, it's quite a thing. One example... http://ulcc.ac.uk/ http://ulcc.ac.uk/