Tag Archives: Moodle

Hawaii Dept. of Education Moving from Moodle to Blackboard

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Michael Feldstein

Blackboard just put out a press release announcing that the Hawaii Department of Education is moving their Hawaii Virtual Learning Network (HVLN) from an open source LMS to Blackboard. The press release doesn’t name the platform, but HVLN is currently … Continue reading →

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Interview with Lou Pugliese

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Michael Feldstein

For my first attempt at a Skype video interview, I was fortunate to be joined by Moodlerooms CEO Lou Pugliese. Unfortunately, the network gods were not with us; the picture is extremely fuzzy. But the audio is quite good and … Continue reading →

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LMS Vendor/Textbook Publisher Partnerships

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Michael Feldstein

Today Moodlerooms announced a partnership with Cambridge Global Grid for Learning that allows faculty and students to access content from Cambridge University Press, Reuters, Corbis, and other content providers from within Moodlerooms’ Joule platform. As far as I can tell, … Continue reading →

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The Evolving LMS Market, Part II

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Michael Feldstein

I have gotten a lot of very nice compliments in the last 24 hours about the first post in this two-part series. I do want to emphasize that a huge portion of the value in that post comes from the … Continue reading →

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The Evolving LMS Market, Part I

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Michael Feldstein

As Casey Green said in my recent interview with him, the LMS space is a “market in transition.” In 2005, the year that Blackboard acquired WebCT, the two platforms had a combined total of 75.6% U.S. higher education market share, … Continue reading →

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