The Chronicle just confirmed it. For those who don’t know, Blackboard Content System is based on the Xythos Content Server product. So now Bb owns a content management engine and can integrate it pervasively with the rest of its product line. (To date, the integration between Bb Content System and their LMS is relatively weak.) This fits well with the trend we’re seeing elsewhere, e.g., Moodle and Sakai both building JSR-170 repositories underneath all of their various LMS tools, ANGEL and D2L both selling some kind of content management add-ons, etc. Clearly, the integration of content management into core teaching tools and processes is going to be a big story in 2008.
Damn. I shoulda included that in my eLearn predictions.
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[...] Blackboard收购了Xythos Blackboard继续它疯狂的收购行为，买了Xythos，这是一个内容管理系统。Michael Feldstein评论道，“这符合我们在别处看到的趋势，如，Moodle和Sakai在其所有的各种LMS（学习管理系统）工具下都建立了JSR- 170内容仓库包（译注：JSR，Java内容仓库包），ANGEL和D2L也都在销售某些内容管理的附加软件，等等。” Michael Feldstein, e-Literate January 28, 2008 [原文链接] [Tags: Content Management Systems, Learning Object Repositories, Blackboard Inc.] [参与评论] [...]