Tag Archives: Josh Coates

Everybody Wants to MOOC the World

Posted on November 4, 2012 by

You may have seen this week’s announcement from Instructure of their new Canvas Network to support MOOCs and other open courses. Blackboard has already been dipping its toe in this water, having had Curtiss Bonk run a MOOC on CourseSites. I … Continue reading →

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The Blackboard Announcements, Part 2: Can Open Source Be Bought?

Posted on April 8, 2012 by

I have gotten a lot of email from folks who moved to Moodle (often from Blackboard CE) because they wanted to get away from Blackboard and they thought that open source was “safe.” In my first post on the announcements, … Continue reading →

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The Changing Dynamics of the Educational Technology Markets

Posted on April 24, 2011 by

Phil Hill has two good blog posts up in response to Blackboard’s announcement that it has received at least two “unsolicited non-binding proposals” for the company to be acquired. In his first post, Phil argues that, whatever the outcome of … Continue reading →

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Instructure Goes Open Source

Posted on February 1, 2011 by

Update: The video was briefly broken as Instructure inexplicably chose the day after their big announcement to change their YouTube account. I have updated the post with the new URL and it should be working now. Note that anybody else … Continue reading →

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