Following up on a commitment made at the time it acquired the two companies, Blackboard has announced that Collaborate, its new collaborative learning suite that taps into technology from Elluminate and Wimba, will work with competing learning management systems.
Blackboard no Match for Moodle
An interesting article showing the change from Blackboard to Moodle at the University of Montana (US).
http://www.montanakaimin.com/news/blackboard-no-match-for-moodle-1.1596737
Blackboard acquires Elluminate and Wimba: the end of LMSs?
Tony Bates, from E-Learning and Distance Education Resources writes: “I’ve deliberately waited a few days before commenting on this, because my immediate reaction was unprintable. At the end of the day, I found myself asking: does this really matter?”
http://www.tonybates.ca/2010/07/11/blackboard-acquires-elluminate-and-wimba-the-end-of-lmss/…
Blackboard (WebCT owner), Desire2Learn End Dispute
Blackboard and Desire2Learn have formally ended their three-and-a-half-year legal dispute, a conflict that was triggered when Blackboard received a hotly disputed patent for electronic learning technologies and proceeded to enforce it through litigation against D2L.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/12/15/blackboard-desire2learn-end-dispute.aspx…