Posts Tagged ‘blackboard’
@Moodlerooms adds deep experience to its leadership team
Moodlerooms, Baltimore-based Moodle Partner has added a new CFO, CTO and VP of Products and Strategy in Todd Frager, David Mills and Phillip Miller, respectively. Both Mills and Miller come from ANGEL LMS (acquired by Blackboard in 2009), the former as a founder of the company. Frager comes from the recently acquired Spectrum K12 special [...]
Echo360 and Netspot team up to provide Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 plugin (due August 2011)
While there are several live, synchronous meeting and capture tools on the market for Moodle (BigBlueButton, Blackboard Collaborate, Adobe Connect, WizIQ), there's a new type of lecture capture system working on Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 integration via plugin: Echo360. Echo360 does lecture capture and presentation slide organization so students can [...]
What’s the #Blackboard Acquisition Mean for Moodle?
In the LMS world, there hasn't been bigger news lately than the acquisition of Blackboard by Providence Equity Partners this past July 1, 2011 . The 1.6 billion dollar acquisition of the worlds largest LMS corporation caused a flurry of conjecture and forecasting, but what does it mean for the Moodle community? By and large, it doesn't mean [...]
Students and Instructors Grade Moodle with highest marks in Carleton College survey
Here's some qualitative data on LMS usage and opinions by a pretty good sample of students and instructors at Carleton College in Canada. The survey by the LMS Support team was designed to compare Desire to Learn, Moodle, and Blackboard 9 to WebCT. Direct link to survey results/analysis. One interesting graph (there are plenty) is a 10 [...]
Win Blackboard Collaborate (a 50 seat classroom) for a year!
Here's a cool promotion which would integrate with your current Moodle course: win a Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate) 50 seat license for a year, just by registering on a site and posting a proposal for how you'd use it in the coming year. According to Steve Hargadon, the man behind the scenes, Join the contest site [...]
Gone Moodle: An interview with Clarence Maise of Western Nevada College
Recently Clarence Maise and Western Nevada College took a well-informed leap of faith in adopting their new LMS, Joule 2 provided by Moodlerooms. While many other higher education institutions have hesitated to adopt the underlying Moodle 2.0 technology, Clarence and his team were eager to adopt the best possible after piloting several versions [...]
#Blackboard usage drops 6%; Moodle grows to 10% market share according to ITC Survey
According to the recently published 2010 Distance Education Survey Results by the Instructional Technology Council (ITC) there continues to be a shake up in the Learning Management System market with growth for some and drops for others across surveyed institutions. Note that those surveyed were generally the director of distance learning of [...]
Meet Steve the Moodle Doodle: Star of the Moodle Awareness Campaign by @ulethbridge
This is a special "Gone Moodle" which highlight's one University's transition to Moodle including fanfare and cartoons. Meet Steve, the Moodle Doodle who helped make it happen below. To raise awareness of their transition from Blackboard to Moodle 2.0 recently the University of Lethbridge (@ulethbridge) employed a cartoon character (dubbed [...]
Gone Moodle: Elon University, University of Portsmouth and Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
As usual, here are a few educational organizations and institutions who've either made the switch to Moodle or are considering it: Elon University, Elon, NC, USA : Elon students and faculty are considering a move to Moodle from Blackboard over the summer of 2012 once the current LMS contract has expired. The move is driving by cost savings [...]
@2tor embraces Moodle for growing its online learning programs
2tor, a rapidly growing and venture-backed online education company announced recently that it was hiring 400 new staff members to facilitate its growth trajectory. Among those hires will be tech support and developers specifically with experience working on Moodle LMS. While no other information is necessarily available it is interesting to [...]
