Posts Tagged ‘blackboard’
Blackboard’s newest release to showcase major usability enhancements
In my day job we utilize Blackboard Learn 9.1 (we're on the latest service packs as soon as they become generally available). Upgrades for hosted services are upgraded as part of their cost, at our convenience as long as we schedule 1-2 weeks out. Recently Blackboard announced its newest Service Pack which was introduced by Ray Henderson and [...]
Gone Moodle: Cal Poly, Andrews University and Bryn Mawr
As usual here are a few institutions making the jump to Moodle, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California (article): In April this year CalPoly announced its gradual transition to Moodle from Blackboard. The move was spurred by a forced upgrade to the newest version of Blackboard which would cause and equally [...]
Opinion: Moodle adoption slipping? I don’t think so
Another new LMS launches almost every week to higher ed or k12 clients around the world (just recently we've seen OpenClass by publishing giant Pearson announced to some fanfare). In other news reports of Blackboard and new-comer, Instructure being selected over several other Learning Management Systems (including Moodle) have been announced to [...]
Move2Moo: “Rapid and Accurate Migration of Course contents” from Blackboard to Moodle!
Move2Moo is a new service which has partnered with Lambda Solutions to provide course content migration services to institutions and companies adopting/migrating to Moodle from another LMS. They currently offer a demo site where you can also test a conversion of a single course (right now Blackboard Vista/CE, WebCT are supported). The service [...]
Great Graphic showing the Growth of LMS usage and market share #Blackboard #Sakai #Instructure
Here's a wicked cool graphic (and article) by Phil Hill (@PhilOnEdTech) of the Delta Initiative that puts down his thoughts on the changing landscape of Learning Management Systems and educational technology in higher education and a snap shot of market share growth overtime for the various players in the industry currently. Smaller shops are [...]
Moodle v. Blackboard: the main factors in deciding which to use
There's a good article posted to the Morehead State University school paper that highlights why the school opted to continue using Blackboard rather than making the switch to Moodle (which they were considering in a head to head matchup). You can read the full article here. While Blackboard did come out on top and MSU will upgrade to [...]
Opinion: Content as King in the Future of the LMS
There's been some important news lately about the partnering of content companies and publishers directly with the learning management systems that more often than not serve content to our high school, college and professional development students. Most recently the announcement came from Cengage (whose sub brands include Brooks/Cole, [...]
#MMVC11 Starts Wednesday: Check out “Moving from Blackboard to Moodle” Wed @ 11am EST
The 1st ever free Moodle Moot Virtual Conference kicks off Wednesday with a full slate of sessions on WizIQ. This 11am session is getting put on by Salvor Gissuardotti of Iceland and will discuss both the migration to Moodle as well as Moodle usage in a higher education setting. According to the session landing [...]
Free Moodle 2 logo from Plymouth State University & @JustinLitalien
This logo for Moodle 2 was created and shared by Justin Litalien (@JustinLitalien) of Plymouth State University. Last year Plymouth adopted Moodle moving away from Blackboard and is now piloting Moodle 2.1 with faculty. To commemorate the upward march of version numbers Justin created this slick Moodle 2 logo and shared it for all to use. [...]
No more Wimba/Elluminate for Moodlers: Blackboard Collaborate officially unveiled
Earlier this week at Blackboard World in Las Vegas Blackboard officially unveiled its synchronous meeting tool based on the two acquired products Wimba and Elluminate. Current users of the two legacy products will be able to upgrade to the new official Blackboard product, Blackboard Collaborate at no cost; this includes all Moodle using [...]
