- Source: The Chronicle’s Wired Campus 8/21/06
"Last week the company announced a second-quarter revenue of $43.6-million -- a leap of 32 percent from its second-quarter figures for 2005, according to The Washington Times. Stock analysts have given the company good buzz because distance learning and hybrid education seem like low-risk enterprises. And, the analysts point out, Blackboard has retained a healthy percentage of the colleges that had used WebCT -- in part because switching from one course-management system to another is an expensive proposition. --Brock Read"
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1511
August 30, 2006 1:41 PM EDT
Wikipedia has an unfolding story on this and links from Cable Green, Ph.D.
About Bb Patents: http://www.blackboard.com/company/patentFAQ.htm
* Press release: http://www.blackboard.com/patent/patentpress.htm
Bb sues D2L: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33396
* PDF of the suit: http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/blackboard.pdf
USPTO Patent 6,988,138: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,988,138.PN.&OS=PN/6,988,138&RS=PN/6,988,138
Other Bb Patents pending (in multiple countries): http://gauss.ffii.org/PatentView/EP1192615
Discussions to establish prior art to challenge the patent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments http://fm.schmoller.net/2006/07/blackboards_us_.html http://docs.moodle.org/en/Online_Learning_History
Possible threats to open source: http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/announcement/us-patent-office-strikes-again-awards-broad-patent-to-blackboard
Blog on the topic: http://mfeldstein.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Inc
August 4, 2006 12:31 AM EDT
"The new platform will facilitate the integration of Oracle's student administration, grade management, and e-portfolio applications, as well as its analytics solutions, with a course management system based on open source Sakai software. Oracle and Unicon will build, test and support optimized integrations from Oracle products -- such as Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle Personal Portfolio, Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions and PeopleSoft Enterprise Gradebook -- to Sakai. The platform and integration will meet industry-accepted IMS specifications, an important component of Oracle's standards-based strategy for all its applications."
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060801/sftu055.html?.v=71
August 4, 2006 12:27 AM EDT
Interesting convergence analysis by Michael Feldstein and Patrick Masson: "false distinctions between learning environments, learning objects, and learning activities. [inhibit] —the vastly rich variety of critical learning interactions between students, their teacher, each other, and the world—that we should care about when we choose our online learning platforms. ...even the most conservative estimate of Google Maps mash-ups is higher than the total number of extensions that exist for any mainstream LMS by an order of magnitude."
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=tutorials&article=22-1
January 28, 2006 2:00 PM EDT
Wake-Up Call: Open Source LMS by Sam Adkins
"The Open Source community has a definitive role, and in some cases advantage, in focusing their initiatives on learning applications and tools that can extend and compliment the commercial learning platform environment without having to continue to pressure and rely on commercial vendors to supply those product extensions."
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2005/oct2005/adkins.htm
January 10, 2006 4:19 PM EDT
"The rSmart Group, Inc. (rSmart) today announced the availability of the rSmart/IBM Sakai 2.0 bundle for Education, to be released in November. This offering combines the rSmart Sakai Collaborative Learning Environment with IBM WebShpere(R) software and IBM DB2(R) database, creating an industry-leading Sakai 2.0 offering built for easy adoption and integration into the education enterprise."
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20051019005533&newsLang=en
October 19, 2005 2:00 AM EDT
by Rob Abel
"The purpose of this post is to decode the realities of the Blackboard-WebCT announcement, which is easily the most significant deal in higher education high tech in the last five years, for those who may be users or administrators and not analysts.
First, this was an expensive deal (6x revenues for a company that is close to market saturation in a niche market is not normally a deal you do), but it is a gambit for a much bigger outcome. See point four below.
Second, prices will definitely go up - there is no question of "if" as has been mentioned in some of the press. This is because the minimum the investors are expecting out of this is more upselling in the installed base - raising prices is the most straightforward way to do this. "
http://www.a-hec.org/blog/2005/10/the_real_significance_of_black.html#more
October 18, 2005 12:00 AM EDT
"Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC), Thomson Learning and Microsoft today announced they are collaborating in an extensive course redesign project to make learning available to DMACC students anytime, anywhere on any device. The first phase of this project began this fall with the launch of an online criminology course that combines course management via DMACC's Connected Learning Framework, a Web-based
learning environment with integrated content from Siegel's Criminology, textbook, test bank, and web resources, published by Thomson Learning. All of
the redesigned, interactive coursework is delivered through Microsoft's SharePoint portal server. ... DMACC's SharePoint portal deploys Microsoft WebParts for integrating and
customizing content, and to enable instructors to facilitate interactive and technology-enhanced learning, such as RSS feeds or video streams, collaboration space for groups of students,..."
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-18-2005/0004171713&EDATE=
October 18, 2005 12:00 AM EDT
Blackboard and WebCT, leading providers of enterprise software and services to the education industry have announced plans to merge. The announcement was made at October 12th at 4 pm EST in a news release posted on PR News wire.
http://www.blackboard.com/webct/index.aspx
October 12, 2005 12:00 AM EDT
"The Copyright Permissions Building Block, which the clearance center is offering through a partnership with Blackboard, will allow professors at the 1,200 colleges that use Blackboard’s course management system, to automatically tap into the copyright center’s authorization process (which about 1,000 colleges use) as they build their courses, to make it easier for faculty members to get permission to use the materials they choose".
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/10/11/copyright
October 12, 2005 12:00 AM EDT
Indianapolis, Ind. – Oct. 4, 2005 – Elsevier, a world-leading healthcare and scientific publisher, and ANGEL Learning, developer of ANGEL|LMS the easy-to-use and flexible enterprise learning management system, announced today that they have formed a partnership alliance. Under the alliance, the Evolve Learning System will operate on the ANGEL platform.
http://www.angellearning.com/News/pressReleaseArchive.ASP?WCI=pgDisplay&WCU=CLLPRESS&ENTRY_ID=84C7D7E7371645A59978CD3F75D95D6D
October 4, 2005 12:00 AM EDT
New York, NY – (August 30, 2005) – Horizon Wimba, a provider of collaborative software applications for online education, announced today that it has acquired the assets of Silicon Chalk, the Vancouver-based company that creates software which, from within a class, broadcasts an instructor’s prepared notes and lecture materials to local and remote students. (Silicon Chalk was the second brainchild of Murray Goldberg, the first was WebCT)
http://www.horizonwimba.com/about/press_detail.php?id=78
August 30, 2005 12:00 AM EDT
SYNOPSIS: MiCTA/ATAlliance Members to benefit from contract amendment offering cost savings and new Desire2Learn Learning Object Repository product.
MiCTA is a non-profit association which provides services in the way of product assessment, integration strategies, testing and cost avoidance for its membership. MiCTA boasts a membership of over 19,000 organizations from Higher Education, Healthcare, Libraries, K-12, Governmental bodies and other non-profit groups. MiCTA focuses on telecommunications and technology related products and services.
http://www.desire2learn.com/news/newsdetails_6.html
April 19, 2005 12:00 AM EDT
A Comparison of Satisfaction with Online Teaching and Learning Tools
Kathy D. Munoz, and Joan Van Duzer of Humboldt State University (15 February 2005)
Developer's Feedback
Some interesting student data and Developer's Feedback -- worth a read if you have these two on your short list.
http://www.humboldt.edu/%7Ejdv1/moodle/all.htm
April 8, 2005 12:00 AM EDT
"BARCELONA, Spain., Feb. 7, 2005 - Today at the 4th Annual WebCT European User Conference, WebCT, provider of higher education's most flexible and widely used e-learning solutions, introduced WebCT Vista™ modules that customers can selectively add to WebCT Campus Edition™. This new modular approach lets institutions initiate enterprise e-learning practices with unprecedented flexibility, value and simplicity. ... The WebCT Vista Learning Object Manager, Vista Community Manager, Vista PowerLinks Kit and Vista PowerSight Kit™ modules enable institutions to precisely choose the enterprise e-learning functionality they need."
http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=24926718
February 7, 2005 12:00 AM EDT
For five years, Advanced Learning Technologies, a unit within the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has worked with faculty and staff to develop the eCore, an electronically delivered core curriculum for the University System of Georgia. The eCore contains online courses leading to the completion of the first two years of an undergraduate degree. They are now creating flexible eLearning through the use of Learning Objects that were obtained by deconstructing online courses. Surprisingly, what began as a plan to provide courses as learning objects which is a big undertaking has become something even bigger.
http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm04/eqm04410.asp
February 7, 2005 12:00 AM EDT
Toronto, February 3, 2005 - Embanet's support of over 1,000,000 enrollments in 2004 exceeds projections and sets the stage for a banner year in 2005. Embanet provides hosting of online courses in its Tier 1 Data Center and 24/7/365 live help desk support for Instructors and learners.
http://www.embanet.com/
February 3, 2005 12:00 AM EDT
Fair use may not be what you expect. Simple, clean, concise rules do not exist in the law of fair use. For example: Do not assume that a nonprofit, educational use is inherently fair use. Do not assume that giving credit for the source of the work inherently creates a fair use. Do not assume that limiting access tomaterials to students in the class inherently creates a fair use. On the other hand, proper application of fair use can prove to be extremely beneficial to the instructor, the students, and the educational process as a whole.
http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/distedcms.htm
February 1, 2005 12:00 AM EDT
Syllabus. As course management systems have matured, they have encompassed wider functionality, and been integrated with numerous other campus systems. As with most large and complex systems, the unbundling of service and software components can produce greater opportunities for efficiencies and customization.
[from http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/archive/2004_12_05_archive.html#110224627818937623]
http://www.campus-technology.com/article.asp?id=10303
December 5, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
Through the agreement, MERLOT has joined the Blackboard Developer
Network(TM) and will work with Blackboard to use the Blackboard Building
Blocks(TM) technology to develop integration between the Blackboard Academic
Suite(TM) and the MERLOT services. Blackboard Building Blocks is Blackboard's
open architecture initiative that allows Blackboard clients and independent
software vendors to build new functionality on top of the Blackboard platform
or integrate external systems, like MERLOT. Additionally, MERLOT will develop
a Blackboard taxonomy within the MERLOT learning directory, making it easier
for MERLOT users to identify Blackboard-specific training materials.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/09-01-2004/0002241959&EDATE=
September 2, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) 2004 2nd Edition Document Suite
The SCORM 2004 Document Suite is a ZIP file that contains all SCORM components: the SCORM Overview, SCORM Content Aggregation Model (CAM) book, SCORM Run-Time Environment (RTE) book and the SCORM Sequencing and Navigation (SN) book.
http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=DownFile&libid=648&bc=false
August 30, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
The O.K.I. project team has announced the release of version 2.0 of the its Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs) for Educational and Common Services. There have been a couple of interesting changes to Educational Services. The Digital Repository has acquired more transparent naming of records and their parts: InfoStructures are now Records and RecordStructures. InfoFields are now Parts and PartStructures. The Grading now supports simple Weighted grading by adding a gradeWeight parameter to createGradeRecord(). Weight is an integer in range of 0 to 100. More details at url:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=24070&group_id=69345
http://sourceforge.net/projects/okiproject
August 9, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
The Sakai Project released v1.0 RC2 its open source Collaboration and Learning Environment software to the public. This release to the public is Sakai Release Candidate 2, and it puts the full code in the hands of any institution that wishes to begin using or understanding the Sakai software. This seems to be basically a bug fix but the important point is that it was done quickly.
http://www.sakaiproject.org/
August 8, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
Indelta and UKeU/Sun Microsystems LMS fall while Blackboard boasts early IPO success. In recent news, Australia's University of Southern Queensland (USQ) made public their losses on Indelta, a home grown LMS initiative that went commercial and is now in liquidation. In the UK, the collapse of the UK eUniversity (UKeU) has prompted a fire sale on their Sun Microsystems LMS product, but on 18 June it was announced that no acceptable offers had been received. These two failures are in line with a trend towards a shrinking commercial LMS market, where only the biggest companies may survive. ... Despite posting impressive first week stock price gains there is still doubt as to whether the education technology marketplace has fully recovered from the IT bust that decimated the industry in 2001.
http://www.obhe.ac.uk/news/
July 12, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
SEPP institutions will have licenses and may implement Sakai 1.0, on schedule for release in July 2004. Sakai 1.0 will be a full production environment based on the existing course management implementations done at each of the four founding institutions, as well as work of the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI), which designed the framework and provided a proof of concept for an open source learning management system for higher education. The four original Sakai developer institutions charged with delivering Sakai 1.0 are MIT, Indiana University, University of Michigan, and Stanford University.
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=9635
July 7, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - Educational software company, Blackboard Inc., filed with U.S. regulators on Friday for an initial public offering worth an estimated $75 million.
http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2004/03/05/rtr1288641.html
March 9, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
By Kenneth C. Green ... "The 23 Sakai founder and partner institutions, along with many other colleges and universities, want control over CMS, as well as the accompanying and supplemental applications. In this context, control can be interpreted in two ways: first, product control over the development and direction of CMS products and resources, including the increasing important CMS “supplements” such as assessment modules and ePortfolio functionality; and second, local control that permits the institutions to customize the core product." ...
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=9030
March 3, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
The latest release of the open source CMS ATutor now supports the importing and exporting of SCORM conformant packages.
http://www.atutor.ca/news.php#190204
February 19, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
Blackboard Inc. today announces the
release of Building Blocks built on the Microsoft .NET Framework, which give
clients an easy new way to customize their Blackboard Learning System(TM)
installation and further enhance the e-Learning experience for students and
faculty. Blackboard clients can use Building Blocks to build their own .NET
applications or integrate the Blackboard Learning System with Microsoft's
powerful server and productivity applications.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK3.story&STORY=/www/story/02-12-2004/0002108249&EDATE=THU%20Feb%2012%202004,%2007:03%20AM
February 16, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
Blackboard Inc., a leading enterprise software company for e-Education, today announces that it is releasing the ADL certified "Content Player Building Block," continuing its tradition of compliance with the SCORM 1.2 specifications. Demonstrating Blackboard's ongoing commitment to meeting the unique needs of the e-Education market, the company's SCORM 1.2 compliant Content Player Building Block is compatible with the latest release of its course management software, the Blackboard Learning System(TM).
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=117133
February 16, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
One of the uses of the EduTools site has been to provide the product description Framework for Request For Proposal documents. In the most recent case North Dakota University System Online posted an RFP on 02/06/2004 using the EduTools framework at http://www.nduso.org/RFP.htm
http://www.wcet.info/community/index.php?act=ST&f=1&t=421
February 11, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
Docent Announces Preliminary for 4th Quarter and Year-end. Docent is reporting that they increased revenue and reduced net loss in 2003.
Docent's fourth quarter 2003 revenue is expected to be approximately $8.5 million, compared to $7.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2002. This represents an increase of 20%. License revenue will be approximately $3.8 million and service revenue will be approximately $4.7 million. For fiscal 2003, revenue is expected to be approximately $30.3 million compared to $27.8 million in 2002. This marks the most revenue recorded in any year in the company's history.And Docent adds that it's net loss was only $2.5 million compared to $3.2 million last year. Net loss for the year was approximately $10.7 million compared with over 20 million in 2002. Their merger with Click2Learn is "proceeding on schedule". [from e-Learning Eclectic]
http://gordmackenzie.com/eclectic/
January 14, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
Higher education will continue to invest in IT as an essential element of executing its teaching, research, and service missions in effective and economically-sustainable ways. IT, particularly software development and implementation efforts, are very expensive and challenging to align to the common and unique needs of various institutions. ‘Code mobility’ via open source communities holds great promise for an economically-sustainable IT investment path for higher education, yet real barriers impede the realization of this promise. The Sakai Project will bring considerable, synchronized, focused energy to overcome these barriers and accelerate a new path for code mobility in higher education in the core areas of online teaching, research and provision of campus portals.
http://www.sakaiproject.org/
January 6, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
by Sally M. Johnstone "...The Western Governors’ Association passed a policy resolution entitled Online Learning Courseware Sharing Standards. This resolution says in part that the Western Governors believe universities, colleges, and K-12 schools must be able to share electronic academic resources. In order to do that there needs to be standards that course material developers use, but there also needs to be incentives for faculty to use the shared materials...."
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=8719
January 1, 2004 12:00 AM EDT
This book is intended for an international audience with an interest in education and the Internet. It will be of special value to students, teachers, course designers, administrators, decision makers and educational officers in public and private sectors. The book discusses major developments in online education, and provides illustrating examples from the author's Scandinavian and international research. It includes articles outlining a theory of online education, teaching techniques, learning management systems, recommendations for decision makers and terminology.
http://www.studymentor.com/studymentor/
December 29, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Certificates of Professional Development, offered through WebCT Online
Workshops. A Certificate of Professional Development signifies your individual achievement in learning essential
WebCT skills.
http://webct.rsc02.net/servlet/cc5?OJlQWUSQTVIjmJLXtHgKhgxKhmntHkQIJQJHV2VR
December 16, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
December 10, 2003 — SunGard Data Systems Inc. (NYSE:SDS) and Systems & Computer Technology Corporation (SCT) (Nasdaq:SCTC) announced today that they have reached a definitive agreement for the acquisition by SunGard of all of the shares of SCT for $16.50 per share in cash. Based on SCT's approximately 35.4 million fully diluted common shares outstanding, the transaction has an aggregate value of approximately $584 million. The board of directors of each company has approved the transaction. The acquisition is not expected to have a material impact on SunGard's financial results. SCT will be an operating unit of SunGard Public Sector and Nonprofit Systems, and will continue to be led by Mike Chamberlain, SCT's president and chief executive officer.
http://www.sct.com/Education/corp_nm_pr2003-12-10.html
December 15, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
The company sells its software to about 3,000 clients, including universities and school districts such as the Fairfax County Public School System. Blackboard's software acts as a virtual campus for a school, allowing students and teachers to communicate and share research online, access library systems and make purchases. Blackboard's annual revenue jumped from $12.1 million in 2000 to $69.2 million in 2002. The company said it made its first profit in the third quarter, but won't reveal the figure.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33240-2003Dec3.html
December 9, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
This article extends the “digital puck” metaphor that first appeared in Syllabus in December 2002 (“Tracking the Digital Puck”). Then as now, a continuing source for information about the “digital puck” of information technology in American higher education is The Campus Computing Project (www.campuscomputing.net).
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=8574
December 2, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
The Defense Department early this week awarded an e-learning contract to Washington, D.C.-based Blackboard Inc. to supply software and systems to Defense schools around the world.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/1124/web-black-11-26-03.asp
November 27, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
WebCT today announced that WebCT Vista has become the first major higher-ed e-learning technology to earn SCORM 1.2 certification, the highest level of conformance with the Shareable Content Object Reference Model learning standard.
http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=18660382
November 3, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Abstract: This paper describes the theoretical and technical aspects that were taken into consideration in the design process of iWeaver, an interactive web-based adaptive learning environment. Building on the Dunn & Dunn learning styles model, iWeaver aims to create an individualised learning environment that accommodates specific learning styles. To achieve this, iWeaver uses database-driven JavaServer Pages, interactive Flash animations, streaming audio and other specifically developed learning tools. This paper describes which media representation is allocated to each learning style and the underlying rationale for this allocation. A central concept of iWeaver is that this media-style allocation is flexible. It can change dynamically according to learner behaviour. This learner-centred approach strives to increase motivation, retention of knowledge and understanding for learners using iWeaver. The prototype teaches the Java Programming Language.
http://www.adaptive-learning.net/media/html/iWeaver.htm
October 12, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
WebCT today announced it has successfully prototyped an application that uses the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs) for interoperability among higher education applications. OKI seeks to provide simple integration with existing infrastructure, encourage local innovations that can be shared across campuses or universities, and facilitate adaptation to new technologies without destabilizing the overall environment.
http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=18218512
September 29, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
The California State University system has adopted the Blackboard Learning System and the Blackboard Portal System to meet the e-Education needs of more than 414,000 students and 46,000 faculty and staff.
http://www.cpwire.com/archive/2003/9/24/1396.asp
September 26, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
WebCT recognized a new group of WebCT-powered higher-education courses that are expanding the possibilities of Internet-enhanced learning.
WebCT's fourth annual 2003 Exemplary Course Project singled out six courses for excellence in the following award criteria: modeling best practices in course design; interaction and collaboration; assessment and evaluation; meaningful technology use; and learner support. The courses include a host of innovations, including bonus points that foster participation, "mind maps" to connect past students with the present, online portfolios and intensive collaboration among groups.
For a complete list of the courses selected, please visit WebCT's web site.
http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=18072533
September 22, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
eCollege on the rise- following first profits and additional capital, the company announce the acquisition of Datamark. While operating a significantly different business, eCollege, the online software and support firm based in Colorado, USA, has long been over-shadowed by its more prominent rivals Blackboard and WebCT. Yet recent weeks have seen a string of upbeat announcements- first the company's maiden profits, then the completion of a US$30.45 million placement of common stock, and finally the acquisition of Datamark, a firm specialising in enrollment marketing. Unlike fellow North American firms Blackboard and WebCT, eCollege has yet to expand internationally in any significant way, and so is little known outside the United States.
http://www.obhe.ac.uk/news/
September 21, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
The General Bureau for Technology, Research and Energy of the Ministry of Walloon Region (Belgium, Europe) has decided to allow around 1M € to Claroline. Research and Development will be made in both ECAM (Ingeneers Higher Education) and University of Liège.
http://www.claroline.net/news.php#28
September 21, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
The Newfront fsaATLAS product helps U.S. higher education institutions manage the enrollment and federal reporting needs of international students, professors, and researchers—an increasingly high-profile challenge as institutions are asked to comply with growing homeland security regulations.
http://www.sct.com/Corporate/News_Media/PressReleases/content/2003-09-17.html
September 18, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
AT&T will spend US$3 billion in capital expenditures this year to completely transform its global network from having a voice-based carrier infrastructure into a single Internet Protocol (IP)-based network, the telco said on Wednesday. The project is expected to be completed by 2005.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/11/HNattnetwork_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/11/HNattnetwork_1.html
September 11, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Desktop IP (Internet Protocol) phones inched closer to computing platforms on Tuesday with Cisco Systems Inc.'s announcement of a phone with a color touchscreen and the addition of XML (Extensible Markup Language) application support to two of its less expensive phones. ... Cisco unveiled the IP Phone 7970G, its first phone with a color display and a touchscreen. The introduction of more advanced IP phones, as well as voice-calling applications on PCs, is starting to blur the line between handsets and computers, according to Yankee Group Inc. analyst Zeus Kerravala.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/09/HNciscoextendsIP_1.html
September 10, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
September. 4, 2003-- Click2learn (Nasdaq:CLKS), a leader in enterprise productivity solutions, announced today that First Data Corp., a global leader in electronic commerce and payment services, will implement the Aspen Enterprise Productivity Suite(TM). The solution will consolidate a broad range of disparate learning programs and support a unified learning and performance management initiative across the organization.
http://www.distance-educator.com/dnews/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=9692
September 5, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
From the Ivy League to tiny community colleges, a majority of institutes of higher education say online learning is just as good as traditional, face-to-face classroom instruction. Nearly three out of four academic leaders say learning online may be better within three years. A comprehensive survey released today by Babson College and the Sloan Consortium concludes that online learning is at historically high levels and will continue to grow at a rate of nearly 20%.
http://www.sloan-c.org/resources/survey.asp
September 4, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Blackboard is expected to announce on Tuesday that it has entered a partnership with the Chinese public-private education company Cernet, which provides Internet services to more than 1,000 universities in China, to create a software platform that will allow professors to post course materials, conduct discussions and administer tests online.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/01/technology/01BLAC.html
September 1, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
With Studio MX 2004, faculty, students, and administrators can build websites and applications with Dreamweaver, create interactive content and applications with Macromedia Flash, generate and optimize web graphics with Fireworks, and incorporate vector graphics with FreeHand.
http://macromedia.com/
August 29, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
by Wilbert Kraan, CETIS staff August 20, 2003
...The whole field of software packages that can dynamically store student's academic transcripts and support personal development is booming at the moment. Just like many VLEs in their early days, e-portfolio software packages seem to be either home-grown, commercial products that are spun off home grown systems or add-ons from existing vendors. ... OSPI (Open Source Portfolio Initiative) [is] largely based on the University of Minnesota Enterprise System's electronic portfolio software, the University of Delaware and the r-smart group have co-founded the initiative, and have attracted the Carnegie Foundation, the University of Rhode Island, Georgetown University, Indiana University, and the University of Michigan. The initiative received a Mellon planning grant as well. ... The OSPI [folks]have promised that the next release will be "OKI and IMS 'compliant'". When asked, Christopher Coppola of r-smart (a company set up to work on OSPI), says that they are looking into supporting the Digital Repository (DR), Hierarchy, Assessment, Authentication and Authorization OKI Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs). Trent Batson of Rhode Island university adds that, slightly further along, the OSPI might be working on a specialists portfolio OSID, in cooperation with the original OKI folks.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20030820153519
August 28, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
The Blackboard Content System incorporates application capabilities in four key areas: Learning Content Management, e-Portfolio Management, Virtual Hard Drive Management, and Library Digital Asset Management...
http://www.blackboard.com/about/press/prview.htm?id=252
August 21, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
update Microsoft set an Oct. 21 release date and announced pricing Tuesday for the next version of its Office software package.
http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5065582.html
August 20, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Jon Baggaley's article is about blogging's educational impact, and a new variant of the blog—known as a "wiki" (Godwin-Jones, 2003)—has emerged and been embraced by many online students, including his own students.
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=2011
August 19, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Blackboard Inc. and SCT (Nasdaq: SCTC) announced an agreement to deliver enterprise integration between the Blackboard Learning System and SCT’s student information and portal system products. Additionally, Blackboard Inc. will join the SCT Partner Program and forthcoming developer network, expanding the array of offerings that build on the SCT solutions...
http://www.blackboard.com/about/press/prview.htm?id=250
August 12, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Using ANGEL 5.6, the Wisconsin Testing Organization at the Academic ADL CoLab in Madison, Wisconsin tested ANGEL for SCORM compliance and issued the SCORM 1.2 certification...
http://www.cyberlearninglabs.com/News/pressReleaseArchive.ASP?WCI=pgDisplay&WCU=CLLPRESS&ENTRY_ID=0780217203JC001
July 28, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Company achieves positive net income for first time in its history....
http://www.ecollege.com/stories/press_07_22_03.learn?page=2200
July 23, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Endeavor, Nuventive, Sentient, Trivantis, Campus Cruiser and eInstruction have joined the WebCT PowerLinks Network, WebCT announced today at IMPACT 2003, the 5th Annual WebCT User Conference...
http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=16824449
July 23, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
The EduTools team is proud to announce the launch of the Student Services website, a resource for colleges and universities seeking information about technology solutions to support online student services. Learn more about products, compare products and make decisions at www.edutools.info/student
http://www.edutools.info/student/
July 15, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
5 Kinds of Assessment That Can Really Help
by Stephen C. Ehrmann and Steven W. Gilbert
... Perhaps it would help if you could see more of what is actually happening when the CMS is used. There are five questions we've found to be helpful in establishing the value and improving the effectiveness of a CMS, whether its Angel, Blackboard, CHEF, or another letter of the alphabet. Each question leads to a different study design, and all five produce data that could help faculty make more effective use of the CMS while guiding support staff who work with them.
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7889
July 6, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
By Judith V. Boettcher
'The Waves of Course Management Systems
We are already in the fourth wave of course management systems. In the first wave we used the technology to do what we always were doing, such as using the Web to organize the elements of a course, and communicate to students. In the second wave we focused on using the technology to make our habitual processes more efficient. This wave saw the rise of the now common hybrid course or Web-enhanced campus courses in which the best of the Web interactions were integrated with the best of the campus interactions. The third wave created new systems that support efficiency in administration and delivery at the infrastructure and enterprise level. These systems are complex and relatively expensive, requiring ongoing support, upgrades, and maintenance for integrating into campus systems. At the same time, they provide features and capabilities that support a totally online "campus."'
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7888
July 4, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
The Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) Version 1.3, Beta release of
the Application Profile, Sample Run-Time Environment and Test Suite are
available for download and evaluation.
http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsstory&newsid=140
June 25, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Embanet will now offer hosting and other support for CyberLearning Labs Angel course management software.
http://www.embanet.com/company_profile/CyberLearning_Labs.htm
June 24, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
The EduTools team is proud to announce the launch of the e-Learning Policies website, which focuses on the unique policy issues that are created by the e-delivery of higher education courses and programs. Learn more about policy areas, search for policies and compare policies at www.edutools.info/policy.
http://www.edutools.info/policy/
June 24, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
"The committee has voted to recommend WebCT Vista as the centrally-supported CMS for the University of Florida. The recommendation report is now being written and will soon be presented to those who will be making the final adoption decision..."
http://grove.ufl.edu/~cmsag/
June 20, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
CyberLearning Labs has released version 5.6 of its Angel course management system, with new product features including: ,multiple team support, a Blackboard import tool, PDA/screen reader optimization, enhanced batch enrollment, transcript views, a "Who's Online nugget", merged course manager, content manager navigation, and MSDE Support.
http://www.cyberlearninglabs.com/News/newsArchive.ASP?WCI=pgDisplay&WCU=CLLNEWS&ENTRY_ID=076782574BQU001
June 9, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
HarvestRoad has joined the WebCT Learning Innovations Network as a learning application partner. Joining the Learning Innovations Network paves the way for HarvestRoad to develop a tight integration between its learning content management system - HarvestRoad LCMS - and WebCT’s pacademic enterprise system - WebCT Vista.
http://rye.harvestroad.com.au/cgi-bin/hr/news_new.cgi?/~hrnews/page6.html
June 3, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Click2learn announced today the availability of the Click2learn SCORM 1.2 Resource Kit, a free resource for anyone in the learning and productivity fields interested in interoperable learning content.
http://home.click2learn.com/en/news/pr_030529_Scorm_Resource_Kit.asp
June 3, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
"Faculty Use of Course Management Systems," by Glenda Morgan, which reports on how University of Wisconsin System faculty and instructional
staff use course management systems (CMS).
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ecar_so/ers/ers0302/ekf0302.pdf
May 30, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
May 7, 2003 - WebCT today introduced WebCT Vista 2.0, the latest release of e-learning's premier academic enterprise system, with new features that simplify course development for faculty of all experience levels and accelerate campus and system-wide e-learning deployment. WebCT Vista 2.0 also includes an expanded set of Web services interfaces - providing new options for institutions to customize the WebCT Vista environment to meet their unique needs.
http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=16114845
May 19, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
EASI, (Equal Access to Software and Information), is offering a new
series, cosponsored by WCET, of synchronous 60-90-minute online events
on how to make online instructional content more accessible for learners
with disabilities. The series is free to WCET members. For more
information, see http://www.wcet.info/events/easi/
http://www.wcet.info/events/easi/
May 19, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
eCollege is enhancing its course authoring capabilities, which are already recognized in the industry as the most advanced and easiest to use among leading course management systems. The eCollege AU+ Authoring Advancements provide faculty even more efficiency and flexibility in creating and delivering course content, ultimately giving them more time to dedicate to teaching and student interaction.
eCollege AU+ Authoring Advancements are a direct result of online faculty input. They allow for everything from incorporating publisher test banks and hiding content such as pop quizzes, to determining when to display and withdraw announcements on the home page, to printing or saving threaded discussions offline. The new authoring advancements will be made available to all customer institutions and their faculty members with no additional purchase, migration or installation required.
http://ecollege.com
April 29, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
The site is designed to help distance educators and their students to select appropriate methods of course development and delivery. The evaluation site is maintained by Athabasca University's Centre for Distance Education as a collaborative activity by its faculty and graduate students.
http://cde.athabascau.ca/softeval/index.htm
April 11, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Superior Edge is announced that both parties have signed a letter of intent that allows Superior Edge to acquire Anlon Systems. The new company will be called Superior Edge and the product name will remain Anlon.
http://www.superioredge.com/press/2003-03-28-Anlon.htm
March 28, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Saba has introduced SCORM Detective, a Macromedia Flash MX-based tool for testing the SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) conformance of a learning management system (LMS).
http://www.saba.com/english/news_events/2003/news_030503.htm
March 20, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
eCollege recently announced a partnership with Houghton Mifflin, one of the leading educational publishers in the United States. The partnership provides eCollege's customers access to Houghton Mifflin's online supplements for introductory courses in business, humanities, mathematics, science, social science, student success, and world languages.
http://ecollege.com
March 20, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
The African Virtual University (AVU), a "university beyond borders " extending higher education to underserved sub-Saharan Africa, has selected the WebCT Campus Edition course management system as the foundation of its distance-learning program.
http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=14903891
February 26, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Avilar Technologies announced today that its
WebMentor Learning Management System has been issued the first certificate of compliance with the SCORM specification, Version 1.2, under the new certification program administered by the Academic ADL Co-Lab in Madison, Wisconsin.
To be certified, an authorized Certification Testing Center must independently verify and
validate the successful processing by the LMS of the SCORM Test Suite, Version 1.2.3.
http://home.avilar.com/corporate/press_releases/20030212.pdf
February 26, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
eCollege has recently announced partnerships with several of the leading content providers in education, including Thomson Learning, McGraw-Hill Higher Education and ElementK. The partnerships allow faculty using the eCollege AU+ platform to easily blend self-authored content and popular textbook content to create the most dynamic and interesting online courses and online course supplements possible. The available content can also provide a starting point to jump-start the development of new online courses and programs.
http://ecollege.com
February 21, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
eCollege has been recognized "as one of the 100 most innovative and successful companies driving growth in the learning markets" by Eduventures, a research firm dedicated exclusively to the coverage of learning markets. The "Eduventures 100" report identifies companies based on their efforts to introduce innovative solutions to their customers and their ability to execute during turbulent times.
http://ecollege.com
February 21, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Blackboard Inc. This week bought SA Cash from Student Advantage Inc. SA Cash is an
application that allows students to use ID cards to make purchases from several vendors. Blackboard, known primarily for its e-
learning software, has been trying to broaden its
offerings to other aspects of campus life and had
already developed a transaction system for on-campus purchases. Adding SA Cash to its products gives Blackboard connections with off-campus vendors.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A20911-2003Feb3
February 10, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Synthesis of a listserv discussion
...enabling faculty to create material on the web for all courses, online, face-to-face, and blended, is a wise investment.
http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/view/v2n1/coverv2n1.htm
February 6, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Gupta downplayed the impact on Groove. "The deal is complementary to what we're doing with Groove Networks," he said. "One of the key areas we are partnering with Groove is around the SharePoint Team Services initiative."
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-981480.html
January 23, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Click2learn (Nasdaq:CLKS), today announced that Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq:MSFT) has selected the Aspen Enterprise Productivity Suite(TM) as its enterprise-wide learning platform...
http://www.distance-educator.com/dnews/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=8293
January 22, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Athabasca University has developed the Bazaar Online Conference System, an online course management and conferencing system that is free and high-quality. Inspired in part by the open source movement, which presses for free and accessible software on the Internet, Bazaar's features include many useful and important resources typically offered by the more popular and expensive proprietary systems.
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1037
January 21, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Presedia Express enables non-technical professionals to use existing office productivity tools like Microsoft PowerPoint, annotate their presentations with audio, and combine these two elements into a streaming Macromedia Flash application delivered via a hosted or licensed solution.
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/presedia/
January 17, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
eCollege recently announced a partnership with Thomson Learning. This partnership allows eCollege customers to access Thomson college titles for use as complete online curriculum, or to complement their own online content delivered through the teaching platform.
http://news.ecollege.com/UM/T.asp?A3.2.20.1.35696.
January 16, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Under the agreement, online supplements supporting McGraw-Hill titles are now available to eCollege customers through the eCollege AU+(SM) platform...
http://www.distance-educator.com/dnews/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=8217
January 9, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
This article reports on ongoing work at the five universities in northeastern England, Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland, and Teesside. In common with many universities, all five have been engaged in the process of evaluating and implementing online learning environments.
http://www.aace.org/pubs/etr/issue3/ingraham.cfm
January 7, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Matthew Pittinsky recently edited "The Wired Tower", a new book on the impact of the Internet on education. Jonathan Finkelstein interviewed him in his New York office in August, 2002.
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1039
January 7, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
After three years and more than $25 million in investments, Columbia University will fold Fathom.com, the commercial company it created to provide courses and other material over the Internet, the university announced yesterday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/07/education/07COLU.html
January 7, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
Creating places where college students and professors understand what they're studying and teaching - and quickly understand each other - is a key that opens the door to real learning. A look at the use of instant feedback technology in the classroom.
By Susan D. Karnovsky - October 2002
http://www.convergemag.com/magazine/story.phtml?id=29722
January 7, 2003 12:00 AM EDT
WebCT proved its software's ability to both accept and transmit Shibboleth data in a demonstration with Ohio State University at the Internet2 Fall 2002 Member Meeting held Oct. 27 through 30 in Los Angeles. The demonstration provided users with "single-sign-on" access to an EBSCO publications database and a repository of QuickTime video files at Brown University. WebCT preserved users' authentication and privileges across all systems instead of forcing them to log in separately for each one.
http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=13718085
December 16, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq:OTEX)(TSX:OTC), announced the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Centrinity (TSX:CTI) the makers of the FirstClass Communications Platform.
http://www.opentext.com/news/pr.asp?id=1288
November 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Software industry pioneer Mitch Kapor has started a nonprofit organization, the Open Source Applications Foundation, to create open-source software applications. The foundation's first software program will be a personal information manager, code-named Chandler, which will combine email and calendar functions with tools for sharing files among multiple users -- similar to the functionality of Microsoft Outlook Express but without the reliance on the more expensive Microsoft Exchange.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/28/technology/28SOFT.html
October 28, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Harvard Business School Publishing has announced two new communication programs, Productive Business Dialogue and Managing Difficult Conversations, aimed at helping managers and leaders improve business results through higher-quality business conversations.
http://www.distance-educator.com/dnews/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7809&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
October 28, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Blackboard Inc., a leading company for e-Education today, announced the Charter Release of the Brazilian Portuguese version of Blackboard Learning System ML – the multi-language edition of the company’s market-leading course management system. With this release, Blackboard continues to set a new industry standard for excellence in multilingual enterprise learning software.
http://www.distance-educator.com/dnews/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7807&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
October 28, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
The Open University’s corporate arm, COROUS, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Development Institute for Knowledge Education and Learning (DINKEL) on Friday, October 18. The agreement means COROUS will recommend DINKEL’s virtual learning environment TeleTOP® to companies buying COROUS online learning packages. DINKEL will reciprocate by recommending COROUS products to its clients.
http://www.distance-educator.com/dnews/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7812&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
October 28, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
UK-based media and publishing group Pearson has decided to outsource a substantial portion of its content creation and editorial service work in learning to Mumbai-based Mentorix. The contract is said to be worth close to $20m (Rs 100 crore) spread over two years and will involve creating a new team for Pearson in Mumbai.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=26499954
October 28, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Cablevision System Corp.'s rumored role in saving the barely-breathing EchoStar-DirecTV merger is closer to becoming reality. Cablevision and EchoStar have orchestrated a deal in which EchoStar would sell some of its spectrum space and satellite capacity to Cablevision, creating a competitor for areas where the merger would otherwise have created a monopoly.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A28514-2002Oct27
October 27, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
According to a study by the American Institutes for Research, nearly 80 percent of students from 12 to 17 years old use the Internet for schoolwork or research. America Online's "Ask a Teacher" program,for example, allows students to post and ask questions to volunteer teachers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/23/technology/23TUTO.html
October 23, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Following a successful pilot program and very positive survey results, leaders at Santa Barbara City College rolled out the Campus Pipeline™ Web Platform to the entire campus. The Web Platform provides students, faculty, and staff with access to all Web-based campus services from a single location and password.
http://www.distance-educator.com/dnews/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7784&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
October 22, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
GeoLearning, Inc., a leading developer of learning management systems and Web-based training solutions, announced that it has developed a strategic content partnership with GeneEd, the leading provider of e-learning content focused on life sciences.
http://www.distance-educator.com/dnews/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7785&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
October 22, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Two of Ohio’s largest universities are teaming to create a collaborative online learning system that will dramatically expand their teaching and research opportunities while reducing information technology (IT) costs, WebCT announced today. The University of Akron and Kent State University are using WebCT’s academic enterprise system, WebCT Vista, to create a “shared services” model for online learning that could eventually encompass other Ohio universities and the K-12 community.
http://www1.internetwire.com/iwire/release_html_b1?release_id=47093
October 2, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
eCollege announced a partnership with Respondus, a company that makes offline assessment software. The partnership will enable faculty members to build exams offline through Respondus' newest version, V2.0 Beta, and simply upload the exams into their eCollege AU+ online courses.
http://www.ecollege.com/stories/press_10_2_02.html
October 2, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Campus Pipeline, Inc. and the 16-campus University of North Carolina today announced the co-development of a prospective student portal that will deliver online access to information and services for prospective or recently admitted students and interactively guide them through a host of campus resources. Based on Campus Pipeline™ Luminis™ technologies, the portal will be made available to the broader higher education market.
http://www.distance-educator.com/dnews/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7636&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
October 1, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
eCollege announced its newest Integration Solutions offering, leveraging .NET technologies to integrate faculty and student information between online programs managed within the eCollege platform and any student information system (SIS) or other administrative back-office data source. This announcement comes on the heels of the news announced last week regarding the eCollege-Microsoft commitment to .NET technologies.
http://www.ecollege.com/stories/press_09_30_02.html
September 30, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Blackboard Learning and Community Portal Systems have been released.
http://products.blackboard.com/cp/release6/orientation.cgi
September 28, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
As of June 27, 2002, the Yahoo! Courses service is no longer available. Your course has been moved to Yahoo! Groups, but some content has been deleted. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.
http://courses.yahoo.com/
September 23, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
The SALT project will work with IMS Global Learning Consortium members and experts on distance learning and accessibility to develop and promote open access technical specifications for accessibility in software applications for the e-learning industry.
http://ncam.wgbh.org/salt/overview.html
September 19, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
eCollege announced the next generation of its synchronous tool suite, ClassLive Premium. ClassLive Premium integrates live audio/visual functionality, typically found in collaboration software, directly into the eCollege course management system to provide real-time instructor-student sessions and record them for future use.
http://www.ecollege.com/stories/press_09_19_02.html
September 19, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Click2learn announced that Comalco, one of Australia's largest aluminum manufacturers, has implemented Click2learn's Aspen e-learning system to enhance workplace safety compliance and effective training. The Comalco project marks another milestone in Click2learn's relationship with management consultant, Deloitte Consulting. The two organizations assisted in the integration of e-learning systems and processes into Comalco's instructor-led training framework.
http://home.click2learn.com/en/news/pr_020918_Comalco.asp
September 19, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Higher education decision makers are faced with a question that has serious organizational and monetary implications: Is it more effective to task campus IT staff with building homegrown portal applications, or is it more efficient to implement a third-party infrastructure to unite campuswide technology resources?
http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A4128.cfm
September 18, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Claroline (Classroom Online) announces the release of version 1.3.0 of its software. Claroline is an eLearning platform developed at the University of Louvain (Belgium). It allows professors to create easily course websites through the web. Claroline is a free software based on Open Source technologies.
http://www.claroline.net
September 18, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Arrow Electronics Inc. (NYSE: ARW), one of the world's largest distributors of electronic components and computer products, has chosen Click2learn's AspenTM Learning Management Server (LMS) to power Arrow University, its company-wide site for courseware and knowledge dissemination. Arrow will use Aspen LMS to integrate training information from different divisions throughout the company into a centralized, blended learning program with a single point of management.
http://home.click2learn.com/en/news/pr_020917_arrow_electronics.asp
September 17, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Akiva recently announced the release of a new Blackboard add-on module for WebBoard 6 Editions. This module allows WebBoard owners to seamlessly integrate their message boards into the Blackboard Learning System, a leading course management system for e-Education, through Blackboard’s Building Blocks technology.
http://www.akiva.com/company/press.cfm?id=23
September 17, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
eCollege announced the opening of its second, full-scale data center. The second data center provides complete redundancy to fully operate all of eCollege's hosted online programs in the case of a catastrophic event, while also providing a replica of eCollege's production systems in which the company can perform extensive Quality Assurance (QA) testing prior to the live release of new products to ensure successful implementation.
http://www.ecollege.com/stories/press_09_12_02.html
September 12, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Centra announced announced that Lundbeck Australia PTY LTD, a subsidiary of the Danish pharmaceutical company H. Lundbeck A/S, has deployed Centra?s Web collaboration platform to enable real-time, online business communications and training for its national sales team.
http://www.centra.com/corporate/press/prsrlse.asp?Year=2002&Id=497
September 5, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Click2learn announced that Medical Learning Company (MLC), a cooperative venture of the American Board of Family Practice and Kurzweil Technologies, will use Click2learn's Aspen Learning Content Management System (LCMS) to develop continuing education curricula for MLC's clients in the healthcare industry.
http://home.click2learn.com/en/news/pr_020905_Medical_Learning.asp
September 5, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Click2learn announced that Charter Communications, Inc., a leading US broadband communications companies, has selected the Aspen Enterprise Learning Platform to develop and deliver training content to more than 18,000 employees across 40 states.
http://home.click2learn.com/en/news/pr_020905_Broadband.asp
September 5, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Heather O'Mara, president of Jones Knowledge, announced that the company will give away its e-education course management software, which currently costs $75 per student per course. Details of the change were not released, but the company said it would be complete by the end of the year.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/08/2002083001t.htm
August 28, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
eCollege annnounces it is fully integrating XanEdu's CoursePacks platform so faculty and students can access these materials from within their course, without having to log on to multiple sites.
http://www.ecollege.com/stories/press_08_28_02.html
August 28, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Centra announced that it has joined forces with Technology For All (TFA), a national non-profit organization that brings technology to underserved communities, to give low-income communities access to job training and collaboration over the Web.
http://www.centra.com/corporate/press/prsrlse.asp?Year=2002&Id=495
August 27, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Click2learn announced that for the second year in a row it has been named by Deloitte & Touche as one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Washington State.
http://home.click2learn.com/en/news/pr_020827_Fast_50.asp
August 27, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
WebCT announced that revenues for the first half of 2002 have more than doubled over the same period last year. Total revenue is up 122 percent, license revenue is up 131 percent, and publisher/content revenue is up 560 percent over the first half of 2001.
WebCT announced that revenues for the first half of 2002 have more than doubled over the same period last year. Total revenue is up 122 percent, license revenue is up 131 percent, and publisher/content revenue is up 560 percent over the first half of 2001.
http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=11326579
August 20, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
eCollege announced the launch of eCollege AU+, the latest generation of its course management system (CMS). AU+ increases efficiency of assignment management; introduces new capabilities for math and science content authoring; and integrates all course calendars into a single downloadable calendar.
http://www.ecollege.com/stories/press_08_14_02.html
August 14, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Embanet has begun to offer 24 hour 7 day per week live technical support for clients using learning management software supported by Embanet, which includes Blackboard, FirstClass, IntraLearn, Prometheus and WebCT. The support features incorporate a new web based technology that lets its professional help desk representatives see a learner's computer desktop remotely, which the company says will reduce call times by as much as 48% while helping the help desk representatives solve problems accurately and more efficiently.
http://www.embanet.com/company_profile/Tech_Support.htm
August 6, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
De Beers selected Click2learn's "Aspen Enterprise e-Learning Suite" in conjunction with its South African Aspen Partner, Learning Resources (Pty) Ltd, as part of a project in South Africa and the UK to establish an infrastructure for online learning.
http://home.click2learn.com/en/news/pr_020805_DeBeers.asp
August 5, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
eCollege, a leading provider of technology and services for online higher education programs, has been selected as the eLearning provider for the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET), a unit of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE). WCET will use the eCollege AU platform and services to support its “Technology Costing Methodology” project, designed to give administrators and policy-makers insight into educational technology costs.
Technology Costing Methodology (TCM) is an authoritative costing analysis tool for institutions to analyze the costs of instructional approaches that make heavy use of technology, and to legitimately compare cost data for different instructional approaches.
“TCM was developed in reaction to the need for a standard costing approach that would be accepted by educators from across the institutional spectrum,” said Russell Poulin, associate director, WCET. “We wanted to create an online, self-paced course to teach the procedures within the costing methodology that we created. We found eCollege to be the ideal partner because they not only shared a similar vision with regards to costing research, but they provided a total solution to support the project. In addition to the CMS, eCollege is providing a reliable hosted environment, a digital campus, online registration and evaluation capabilities, and 24x7 help desk support for all participants.”
If you would like more information, about the TCM project, please call Marianne Boeke at 303-541-0310.
http://www.wiche.edu/telecom/projects/tcm
July 20, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
IntraLearn and Connected Learning.Network, are partnering on the VirtuTRAIN e-Learning Program (www.virtu-train.com). VirtuTRAIN is a Web-based e-Learning package designed for Microsoft training partners' Certified Technical Education Centers (CTECs), IT academies, and independent training providers to train IT professionals for certification tests over the Internet.
http://www.intralearn.com/4010_PR-virtutrain.asp
July 12, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Eduprise and Blackboard Inc. today announced an agreement to work together to provide educational institutions and other e-Learning enterprises with a wide range of value-added services for use with the powerful Blackboard 5 software platform. Eduprise is the leading provider of e-Learning services for online education. Blackboard Inc. is a leading Internet infrastructure for the e-Learning community
http://www1.eduprise.com/public/resources.nsf/Index/5E35C32C71DE7D8385256A77004BFC25
June 7, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
A new study published by Eduventures, a research firm dedicated exclusively to the coverage of learning markets, identifies online distance learning as a unique market with unique needs. Through an analysis of institutions operating successful online programs, Eduventures created a framework highlighting key components comprising a model for distance learning success, including strong levels of IT, administrator, faculty, and student support.
The study further notes that reliability and system performance needs are much greater in supporting fully online programs than those required for stand-alone course management systems or other web-based tools used as course supplements to a traditional, face-to-face classroom environment.
According to the study, “eCollege has distinguished itself as one of the leaders in the fully online distance learning market with its focus on the comprehensive, programmatic needs of distance-learning participants - institutions, administrators, faculty, students, and staff.” The study is available on the Eduventures website. If you are not a current subscriber of Eduventures, registration on the site is free.
http://www.eduventures.com/research/industry_research_resources/distancelearning.cfm
February 20, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
SmartForce announced that it is expanding its industry position by acquiring Centra Software in a stock for stock transaction. Based in Lexington, Mass. Centra's solutions enable real-time, group-oriented human interaction over corporate
http://www.nbvp.com/news/centra_01162002.html
January 16, 2002 12:00 AM EDT
Embanet Corporation and Respondus, Inc. recently announced an alliance to make one another's services available to their clients. Respondus makes it easy for instructors to synchronize their print-based exams with those that are published to course management systems like WebCT or Blackboard, which are two of the five platforms Embanet supports.
Jeffrey Feldberg, Chairman of Embanet, commented "The Embanet-Respondus alliance is our commitment to ensure our clients have a true one stop shop for e-Learning. The offering of the Respondus package for our clients delivering courses through WebCT or BlackBoard enables them to save time, add value and enhance their offering. At the end of the day, this is what Embanet is all about."
http://embanet.com
November 20, 2001 12:00 AM EDT
Embanet Corporation and Respondus, Inc. announce an alliance to make one another's services available to their clients. Respondus makes it easy for instructors to synchronize their print-based exams with those that are published to course management systems like WebCT or Blackboard, which are two of the five platforms Embanet supports.
http://www.embanet.com/company_profile/respondus.htm
November 8, 2001 12:00 AM EDT
Eduprise, provider of enterprise e-Learning services for education institutions and businesses, and WebCT, provider of integrated e-Learning systems for higher education, announced Eduprise's capability to integrate the PeopleSoft Student Administration and WebCT 3.5 Campus Edition systems. The new integration service, provided by Eduprise, enhances the existing partnership to deliver comprehensive e-Learning solutions to universities and colleges.
http://www.eduprise.com/pages/13.asp?prID=107
June 25, 2001 12:00 AM EDT
Embanet Corporation is one of the leading Learning Management Systems Providers in the world. Established in 1995, Embanet was one of the first to develop and host eLearning courses for academic and corporate institutions. Our philosophy has been to concentrate on the individual needs of each client and develop a customize approach to their e-Learning initiative. As a result, we offer five of the most popular e-Learning systems available, Blackboard, FirstClass, IntraLearn, Prometheus and WebCT. Based on the client’s requirements we suggest a platform and then customize it to meet their specific needs. Embanet was also the first in the industry to offer worry free support, providing 24-hours a day, 7-days a week, 365-days a year technical support. Our aim is to provide a complete turnkey solution allowing our clients to focus on their core competencies and not on technology. For more information about Embanet and the service we provide please visit our website at www.embanet.com or contact one of our e-Learning analyst at solutions@embanet.com.
http://embanet.com
May 20, 2001 12:00 AM EDT
Each year more than 1,300 Duke University students journey to Krzyzewskiville, a make-shift town where students take temporary refuge in 12-person tents outside Cameron stadium on a quest for precious Duke Blue Devils basketball tickets. K-Ville, named for Duke's men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, is home, cafeteria, and classroom to Duke students throughout basketball season. You might think that doing assignments and attending class would be a challenge for students who essentially live in tents for months at a time. Not anymore. In 1999, Duke adopted Blackboard and wired six K-Ville lamp posts for high speed Internet access--creating the ultimate online, in line learning environment. Students, on-campus and off, now have online access to course materials, tests and quizzes, email, and discussion boards--all in one convenient location, all powered by Blackboard.
http://www.blackboard.com
May 20, 2001 12:00 AM EDT
eCollegeSM recently introduced the availability of its unique Campus AuthorSM tool, empowering administrators to easily change and update their online campuses in real time, without any knowledge of HTML. The Campus Author tool is another use of eCollege’s Visual EditorSM tool that has already been implemented in its course delivery system and widely adopted by faculty to easily edit and format online courses. Campus Author provides administrators 24x7 access to and control of their eCollege-powered online campus, whether the institution uses the company’s CampusPortalSM, Premium Campus Gateway or Campus GatewaySM. Using the tool, administrators can view their edits in a preview mode before the changes go live.
http://ecollege.com
May 20, 2001 12:00 AM EDT
Embanet has entered into a partnership with Prometheus, an open architecture software platform. This eLearning system facilitates academic institutions and corporations in the creation of courses, allowing for ease of use, considerable flexibility, scalability and cost-effectiveness. Prometheus is known for its open source code design, allowing for direct integration into preexisting administrative systems and their community portal that incorporates all aspects of student life, integrating online classes and social activities into one convenient area. For more information visit www.embanet.com.
http://www.embanet.com
April 20, 2001 12:00 AM EDT
ChatSpace, Inc., an online community technology company, announced that it will acquire the WebBoard line of products from O’Reilly & Associates, Inc.
http://www.akiva.com/company/press.cfm?id=7
March 30, 2001 12:00 AM EDT
An intensive two-day seminar “Managing Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Era: Policies and Practices sponsored by VCampus Corporation, University of Texas System TeleCampus, and Dow, Lohnes and Albertson law firm provides practitioners engaged in distance and distributed education a hands-on approach for addressing intellectual property issues and policies at their institutions. The seminar blends a range of discussion lectures and case study analyses. Topics include institutional liability for electronic infringement, Copyright Law and ‘fair use’ continuum, electronic course ownership, licensing electronic resources, cybersquatting, and more. Facilitators for the session will be Georgia Harper, JD, Office of General Counsel, University of Texas System, and Ken Salomon, JD, of Dow, Lohnes, & Albertson. Seminars will be held May 17-18 in Washington, DC; September 20-21 in Denver, CO; and November 15-16 in Portland, OR. Agenda and registration information available at www.vcampus.com under Events.
http://www.vcampus.com
March 20, 2001 12:00 AM EDT
The U.S. Army has announced that Blackboard Inc. will host the virtual classroom environment for the college courses offered through its Army University Access Online program. PricewaterhouseCoopers, the world's largest professional services organization, will manage the $453 million, five-year contract. The contract brings together more than a dozen technology providers and a primary set of 29 accredited higher education partners to create Army University Access Online, a customized, complete online university. The Army University Access Online program will enable U.S. enlisted soldiers to use an educational Web portal to take distance-learning courses and earn college degrees or professional technical certifications while they serve in the Army. As many as 80,000 soldiers will be able to earn degrees over the Internet. Blackboard will build an integrated solution with Saba and PeopleSoft that allows soldier students to work effectively in an integrated environment which will include the learning platform (Blackboard), the Learning Management System (Saba) and the Student Information System (PeopleSoft).
http://www.blackboard.com
March 20, 2001 12:00 AM EDT
Macromedia, Inc. and Allaire Corporation announced a definitive merger agreement. The combined company will unite the Web design and development communities.
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2001/allaire_merge.html
January 16, 2001 12:00 AM EDT
ETS Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Educational Testing Service, and Question Mark Corporation announced they have entered into a strategic partnership to provide a new service Criterion Online Writing Evaluation. Criterion is a web-based service that allows students to get instant feedback on writing samples they submit. The Criterion service is designed to supplement writing instruction by giving learners the opportunity to practice writing and receive reliable feedback based on widely accepted standards.
http://www.questionmark.com/esp/news/pressreleases/ETS_09112000.htm
September 11, 2000 12:00 AM EDT
SCT recently bought out Rsmart of Phoenix AZ and acquired Learning Suite. SCT introduced SCT Learning Suite today as its distributed learning software solution.
http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/1999/07/19/daily10.html
October 27, 1999 12:00 AM EDT
Macromedia Inc. and IBM's Lotus Development Corp. today announced an agreement that will expand the market for Web-based learning and create the industry's most comprehensive online teaching and learning solutions. The new offerings will give businesses, schools, and other organizations a simple means of creating, delivering, tracking, and managing Web-based training and coursework.
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/1999/index_learning_release.fhtml
July 29, 1999 12:00 AM EDT
ULT acquired WEBCT (developed at University of British Columbia) WebCT The combination of the two companies created the largest installed base of more than two million seats at over 700 colleges and universities in 36 countries.
http://www.ualberta.ca/htbin/lwgate/WEBCT-SUPPORT/archives/webct-support.1999-05/Subject/article-3.html
May 17, 1999 12:00 AM EDT
RealEducation recently changed its name to eCollege.com
http://www.ecollege.com/stories/press_3.html
May 10, 1999 12:00 AM EDT
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