"Barnes & Noble continues to makes inroads into the education, um, space. It just announced that it has teamed up with Blackboard, the Web site/software suite that is used in colleges all over the U.S."
Chronicle report on talk by Jim Groom on using blogs to teach online. Chronicle comes over as apologists for Blackboard (you wouldn't want to read their stuff regularly!) and doesn't really explore the opportunities that Groom would have been highlighting.
"[Blackboard] announced plans to add a 'Share' button that will let professors make those learning materials free and open online."<--stealing the march on Moodle? #irony
Interesting post from the always interesting Michael Feldstein on BB shaving bits of the LMS to run as stand alone services in the cloud. The only core bits of an LMS are the gradebook and identity management...
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