Open Source LMS Trending Up, According to Gartner

Here’s another good Campus Technology article (Linda Briggs, 6/4/08 ) this time on higher ed trends in the field of learning management systems (LMS), utilizing data from the recent Gartner survey. I noted three primary trends from the article, which shouldn’t be particularly new or surprising, to any of you keeping a watchful eye on where [...]

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Blackboard Hot on D2L’s Version 8.3 Trail

Well, it has been one week and four days since we (the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system) upgraded to Desire2Learn’s version 8.3. While upgrading to this latest learning environment brought the promise of a number of feature enhancements, the impetus behind getting us [and the rest of D2L's American clients] to this latest version – [...]

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Obama’s Social Networking Campaign

Do you recall my earlier post from January, 2008 called “Will Use of Facebook, MySpace for 2008 Election Translate to Campaign Success?” Here are some of the questions I posed at the time: Will the use of networking technologies impact election results and will there be a correlation between election success and the use of these technologies?

Here [...]

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The Bully Gets Payback – Blackboard Being Sued in Mass Messaging System Patent Case

In an interesting turn of the tables, Blackboard now finds itself in court on the defense side of things. TechRadium Inc., a Sugar Land, Texas-based technology company, filed a patent infringement lawsuit Monday May 19th against Blackboard in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. TechRadium is claiming that NTI Inc., a recent Blackboard acquisition, is selling [...]

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