By Tony Bates, on December 18th, 2009
Carter, D. (2009) Blackboard, D2L declare truce eSchool News, December 17
The three-and-a-half-year court battle between learning management system (LMS) giant Blackboard Inc. and competitor Desire2Learn ended Dec. 15 when the companies agreed to license each other’s patents and drop long-standing lawsuits.
So does this mean that LMS wars are over? Not really. Both companies have lost [...]
By Tony Bates, on November 25th, 2009
Lowendahl, J-M., Zastrocky, M., and Harris, M. (2008) Gartner Higher Education E-Learning Survey 2007: Clear Movements in the Market Stamford CT: Gartner Inc. (available only on subscription)
Briggs, L. (2008) Gartner: E-learning Market Pushing Toward Open Source Campus Technology, June 4.
Over one year old, but I needed the references up on my site.
By Tony Bates, on November 20th, 2009
Parry, M. (2009) Business Software, Built by Colleges for Colleges, Challenges Commercial Giants Chronicle of Higher Education, November 15
An article on the latest open source administrative software developed by the Kuali consortium. This is an important development, offering the potential for large savings on administrative software, but still likely to be used by less than [...]
By Tony Bates, on July 8th, 2009
‘While the open source movement has taken off in course management systems, with Moodle and Sakai as alternatives to the dominant Blackboard, the administrative side of the house has been almost entirely corporate……Last week, in a move that could lead to a shake-up of the industry, Colorado State University and San Joaquin Delta [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 10th, 2009
Eisen, H. (2009) Green Teach: Canadian virtualization technology delivers computer access to millions of students in Brazil Backbone June/July
Backbone is a bi-monthly magazine delivered with Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper, but also available online. The magazine focuses on new IT developments.
This issue, focused on ‘green’ IT, has an interesting article about a partnership between a [...]
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