Tag Archives: open source

Instructure Goes Open Source

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Michael Feldstein

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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Blackboard Contributing Code to Open Source Project

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Michael Feldstein

According to Scott Rosenbaum, a business intelligence consultant, Blackboard has given him permission to contribute code back back to the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project (or, more accurately, they are contributing the code as separate open source … Continue reading →

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Blackboard's Response to Open Source: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Michael Feldstein

Blackboard has not been having a good time in the state of North Carolina. As I noted recently, the University of North Carolina (a Blackboard customer) reported highly favorable results of their pilot study of Sakai, with an outcome of … Continue reading →

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