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Thursday, July 23, 2009
As a user of Blackboard at Bournemouth University I have been involved in various discussion about it’s merit or lack of). These are usually started by someone who doesn’t like Blackboard, and probably hasn’t used it much either (or even tried?). Blackboard Moodle myBU PLN Technology University 2.0 VLE Web 2.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
This is particularly true of integrated systems (such as Blackboard/WebCT). Blackboard "tends to encourage a linear pathway through the content", and its default is to support easy uploading and text entry to achieve that goal." Certainly, each new version of blackboard is so simliar to the last that it's almost indistinguishable.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Just found this press release on Twitter: “Blackboard Joins Forces with Microsoft to Make Course Information Available on Web Browsers“ Wow, now how good could that be? Tags: eLearning Blackboard Microsoft Technology
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Dear Blackboard. As you know, your Blackboard Learn has become quite popular in both Schools and Universities over here in the UK. We, the Institutions, are being 'forced' to adapt our learning and teaching needs to fit the environment we are given (within Blackboard). Is the VLE dead, and is this the end for Blackboard?
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Thursday, July 8, 2010
While Blackboard is unable to write a press release that includes clear statements like “we have purchased these companies&# , I have to give the company credit for the acquisition of Elluminate (and Wimba). Blackboard’s purchase marks an important shift in trajectory – even maturation – for the LMS marketplace.
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Friday, November 6, 2009
Blackboard Wave Integration - Blackboard demonstrated integration of a wave discussions into Blackboard at EDUCAUSE09. I've posted a couple of times now ( here and here ) on useful Google Wave resources. . There is a live demo of this if you have a Wave preview account. Links and screenshots available here.
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
I’m really looking forward to our upgrade to Blackboard version 9 this summer. In the meantime I’m going to post a series of links and resources I find about Blackboard version 9 here, the good and the bad (I haven’t found any ugly ones yet, but a few of the bad ones are fairly damning!). Blackboard vs.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
It’s an interesting question, and not one I’d thought about until I read this article on HackCollege: “ Google Docs to Blackboard, Your days are numbered “ You can’t be any more blunt than this; “Google is much more in tune with the student population than Blackboard.&#. 8220;Why isn’t it. ?&#.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Blackboard have announced they’re releasing a custom toolbar for IE and Firefox users; “Get notifications directly from your Blackboard Learn system with an easy-to-use browser toolbar. Related posts: Blackboard and Microsoft. Critical Evaluation of Blackboard (by Stephanie Coopman). Blackboard vs.
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Friday, July 24, 2009
I’ve just finished reading the report by Stephanie Coopman called “A Critical Evaluation of Blackboard’s eLearning Environment“, and right on the heals of my previous post: “Blackboard vs. Blackboard Academia 2.0 Wow, talk about powerful stuff! Moodle: a comparison&#.
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