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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Need Somebody: Faculty Perspectives on Transitioning from WebCT to a Sakai-based Learning Management System,&# by Ariana Eichelberger, Educational Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Comfortable with WebCT and hesitant to switch. They are currently in transition, but WebCT will be going away soon. Faculty responses.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Today BlackBoard announced plans to merge with WebCT; the two leading providers in the higher education eLearning space (BlackBoard alone forecasts US$150M+ for their fiscal year). It also doesn't bode well for WebCT's willingness to play with open source (sorry Harold!) This announcement comes on the heels of Saba acquiring Centra.
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Thursday, October 13, 2005
Home My Story Portfolio iPad Bookshelf Social Media October 13, 2005 Yet Another Merger tags: LMS Yesterday, Blackboard and WebCT announced that they have agreed to merge. remember reading a blog not too long asking if Blackboard and WebCT would exist in five years? The writings of Lee Kraus Welcome! Update: Numbers Here.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Yesterday, I randomly sat a table with WebCT administrators for Marshall University (a college in West Virginia), then slid over and introduced myself to Jay Cross who has led the workflow sessions here at the conference. The writings of Lee Kraus Welcome! try to focus on creativity, innovation, collaboration, technology, and elearning.
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Thursday, March 23, 2006
My question is, what am I not getting that I would with Blackboard, WebCT, FirstClass and other VLEs? Over the past two months I've been working extensively with the open source virtual learning environment (VLE) Moodle. To support a predominantly online course in the usual way. Please tell me, where's the catch
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Thursday, July 8, 2010
The learning management system market has become somewhat of a commodity – Blackboard has attempted to hold high market share through acquisitions (notably WebCT and Angel). With increased competition and general maturity of the market, Blackboard made what is likely its most important acquisition to date. Here’s why. Web 2.0
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Friday, April 2, 2010
Webct (27). April’s Big Question from Learning Circuits is “How to Keep up?&# This is in reference the immense and rapidly expanding technology tools. It is tough to stay on top of all the emerging tools. However, being involved in an e-learning community is a big help. Social Network (1999). Wiki (1610). LMS (1346). Flash (980).
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
The article outlines the FIU’s position in the development of their VLE, from WebCT to BlackBoard via the BlackBoard purchase of WebCT, through to the evaluation of alternative systems. I’m not sure why considering the costs involved in maintaining a VLE infrastructure; surely we can ask if we are getting value for money?
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Wednesday, April 4, 2007
The VLE (Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT), on the other hand, is a tool for colleges, training providers and others who want to deliver (or at least support the delivery) of learning interventions online. Yesterday eLearning Guild announced their Member's Choice Awards for Learning Management Systems (LMS). LMSs (Saba, SumTotal, SkillPort, etc.)
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Monday, October 12, 2009
This is particularly true of integrated systems (such as Blackboard/WebCT). I discovered the article Insidious pedagogy: how course management systems impact teaching by Lisa M. Lane thanks to the WISE Pedagogy blog. It's one of those gems that you find every so often. The subject area is the implied pedagogy of standard LMS'/VLEs.
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