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October 2005
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Any B.C. or Alberta-based users of LAMS? Atutor?
If you are currently using or planning to use LAMS or Atutor and are located in B.C. or Alberta, please let me know. I am currently scouting out integration opportunities for our repository software, and these two are potential ones that have come up, but I need to know if its of any value to [...]
Correction – NO New Round of B.C. Online Program Development Funding Announced
http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/ 2005AE0065-000834.htm This is mostly of interest to any B.C. readers (and even they will probably hear about through the normal channels) but one of my employers, BCcampus, has just announced another round of funding through the Online Program Development Fund. Well, just goes to show you you should never trust news releases. I’ve just [...]
ECAR Students and IT Study: CMS Chapter
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ers0506/ rs/ers05065.pdf It would be easy to make too much of this chapter from a recent ECAR report on Students and Information Technology, 2005: Convenience, Connection, Control, and Learning, as it seems to paint an overall positive picture of student experiences with CMS. In the highlights it states that of students who report having used [...]
More on the new behemoth – Timing, Open Source and Interoperability
So I’ve had a bit of time to digest the <a href="http://www.blackboard.com/webct/"big announcement yesterday and process what I heard on the analyst call, as well as see some of the feedback from around the edtech blogosphere. Here’s some more thoughts: Timing and Rationale First off, let’s put aside any euphemisms about this being a “merger” [...]
More on WebCT aquisition by Blackboard
On the analysts call the first piece of work that was identified to bring the two products closer together was unifying an API for the Blackboard and WebCT. So, what does that mean for things like the IMS Tools Interoperability Profile? Well, seems to me like the new unified API becomes a de facto ‘standard’ [...]
HOLY $#@! – Blackboard and WebCT to merge
http://investor.blackboard.com/ phoenix.zhtml?c=177018&p=irol-newsArticle &ID=767025&highlight= Well, there goes any claim to being an insider! Just found out about this a few minutes ago and had no idea it was in the works. I believe this is true as I am sitting on the analysts conference call right now. You kind of knew something like this had to [...]
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