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Course Management System Content Conversion Tools wikipage
http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/CMS+Conversion+Tools One of my main gigs is running a repository service to help faculty here in BC share online course content. As I have likely lamented far too many times, the bane of my existence is the uneven support for content interoperability across the various course management systems. At last count we had at least [...]
Jim Farmer's Eyewitness Account of the Blackboard Patent Trial
http://mfeldstein.com/an-eye-witness-account-of-the-trial/ Through a combination of resignation towards what seemed a pre-determined outcome and pre-occupation with Northern Voice when it was announced, I managed to miss most of the recent hair-pulling that the ridiculous finding in Blackboard’s favour prompted. And thank goodness too, my hair couldn’t have stood it But I did go read Jim Farmer’s [...]
bfree – export courses from Blackboard
http://its.unc.edu/tl/tli/bFree/ Another useful pointer from Michael Roy at Wesleyan’s Academic Commons, bFree is a tool built by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It allows you to open a Blackboard course export or archive file, select the files you want and then export these as an independent website. This might not seem like [...]
Blackboard's Social Bookmarking Service
http://www.scholar.com/ This looks to be a new social bookmarking service launched by Blackboard. The difference from existing services like del.icio.us? Well, not much, as far as I can tell, except that it is aimed solely at Blackboard and WebCT customers (non-customers can search the site and find links, but not contribute). So why would you [...]
My holiday gifts to you….
You already know what I want for Christmas. So in the spirit of the season, here are my (non-denominational holiday) gifts for …. WebCT and Blackboard – I’d say a lump of coal, except they’d probably just claim to have patented ‘mining’ and sue me. So instead, how about “Courage,” the courage to adopt a [...]
educate/innovate = use patents?
http://www.educateinnovate.com/ OK, so at least they did post something back on August 7 about the patent (a staff member posting a letter on behalf of Michael Chasen, the CEO), but otherwise, the Blackboard “blog” has been thunderously silent given the amount of hoopla in the blogosphere over the last month directly concerning them. Not really [...]
Blackboard's Canadian Patents
CIPO – Patent – 2535407 Thanks to Barry Dahl and his Desire2Blog for pointing out that the Canadian patent office is apparently as uninformed as the US one. – SWL
Blackboard Patent and Prior Art
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ctt.bc.ca/landonline/ I am officially still on holidays until next Tuesday but made the mistake of checking my email (I have managed to abstain from my bloglines account though!) and through a mailing list I subscribe to saw a post on the nastiness that is Blackboard’s patent application. If you can beat them, sue them, eh? [...]
Greg Ritter and Co back and blogging
http://www.educateinnovate.com/ Got an email today from an old blogosphere pal, Greg Ritter, who had gone AWOL back in 2004, that he has started blogging again. Greg, the Associate Director of Research & Development at Blackboard, is part of a new initiative there to start blogging. (I can almost sense the rotten tomatoes flying at the [...]
Humboldt College Comparison of Satisfaction of Moodle and Blackboard
http://www.humboldt.edu/~jdv1/moodle/all.htm Thanks to Alan and John Arle for pointing to this presentation by Dr. Kathy D. Munoz and Joan Van Duzer of Humboldt State University which provides some comparative data of a course delivered through both Moodle and Blackboard. Student satisfaction and performance are fairly similar between the two environments, with a slight preference for [...]
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