Posts Tagged ‘wimba’
Some may say “Good bye, Elluminate/Wimba. Hello, BigBlueButton”
On the recent post, "What the Blackboard Acquisition means for Moodle", Denis Zgonjanin commented that a possible open source alternative to both Wimba and Elluminate resides in BigBlueButton. BBB is only 2 years old and is an open source synchronous education tool. In response to the acquisition, the official BigBlueButton blog says, But [...]
Update on the #Blackboard Acquisition and Moodle
Read our previous post on the Blackboard acquisition, including the invaluable comments, here: http://www.moodlenews.com/2010/what-the-blackboard-acquisition-means-for-moodle/ There's an update from Blackboard on the public response to the Blackboard acquisition of Wimba and Elluminate from Ray Henderson, President of Blackboard Learn, I love [...]
What the #Blackboard Acquisition means for Moodle
Wimba and Elluminate, both synchronous learning tools, have been purchased by the leading proprietary learning management company, Blackboard and have been re-branded already as Blackboard Collaborate. The news comes as a surprise to many (considering the similar market of both companies). Implications for Moodle users are not yet known, but [...]
