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Australian open-source services provider NetSpot has been bought up by online learning firm Blackboard, along with US-based Moodlerooms.

"Ruhr-Universität utilizes both Moodle and Blackboard (as a growing number of colleges and higher education institutions are doing) and over the last two weeks was charged with comparing the two LMSs head to head"

Desire 2 Learn have issued a challenge to Blackboard (which has been trying to establish an instructional technology monopoly through numerous (erroneous?) patent lawsuits. D2L invites Blackboard to drop their most recent lawsuit. In return, D2L will dona

Blackboard's e-learning system dominates the online learning software market. In this essay the author critically examines the structure of Blackboard's two online learning delivery systems, Blackboard 8.0 and Blackboard CE6. The author identifies ways in

Blackboard Inc., which never met a lawsuit it didn't like, is once again taking a pre-emptive strike against a foe.

"There are many systems available for issuing badges to recipients, however all of the systems we have come across (including BlackBoard) need the recipient to be a registered user of that specific system. This became a stumbling block for us as we would like to issue badges based on the more frequented face to face elements the Elevate Team offer. Workshops, Masterclasses and group sessions are all based away from systems such as BlackBoard, so how could we issue badges?"

"Remember when Coursera - the world's largest purveyor of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) - was going to disrupt higher education, and put hundreds if not thousands of public institutions out of business? I know it's hard to cast your mind back all of eighteen months, but try. Actually don't.  Because it's all over. Yesterday, Coursera did a weird strategy about-face by announcing that, rather than competing with public colleges, it's going to start competing with Blackboard instead"

Last Friday David White (University of Oxford) and Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway (OCLC) presented some of the findings from their JISC-funded work on Digital Visitors and Residents. Slides, audio and a recording of the Blackboard Collaborate session can be found below:

"Last year it seemed like every new LMS company was trying to position itself as the "Facebook" of online learning. Then Facebook started to make everyone angry (or bored, or both), and we saw that idea dry up pretty quick (well, for the most part). The new catch phrase battle seems to be heating up over the words "open" and "free." Both Pearson and Blackboard are racing to establish either part or all of their services as open and/or free."

Opensource alternative to to the now Blackboard owned Elluminate and Wimba Collaborate

Professors at CUNY debate the pros and cons after enduring technical problems with the course-management system

Surely nothing could be...........

"At the ALT C conference I went to a few sessions where VLE discussion came up, most notably Lawrie Phipps and Donna Lanclos's session "Are learning technologies fit for purpose?". They asked us to reflect on the main question in groups and nearly all of the discussions came back to complaints about the VLE. Lawrie picked on me to give the first response and I mentioned that the problem was not so much the technology but the "institutional sediment" that builds up around it. "

Molly is a framework for the rapid development of information and service portals targeted at mobile internet devices. The framework follows a "batteries included" philosophy, featuring a wide variety of applications and connectors to common and standards

Interesting article on whether the new, much hyped Google wave can be used to replace VLEs