Tag Archives: Moodle

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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Blackboard Acquires Moodlerooms and Netspot

Posted on March 26, 2012 by

Press release is here. This is obviously a gob smacker of a story. I’m going to take a few days, talk to a few folks, and think about the implications before I write a reaction post. You may hear from … Continue reading →

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Hawaii Dept. of Education Moving from Moodle to Blackboard

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

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

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

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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