Blackboard
Do You Want To Help Eliminate Blackboard?
Submitted by billfitzgerald on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 01:01.The Summer of Code application process is underway. Along with some good folks at The Oregon State Open Source Labs, we have put together a proposal to share content between Moodle and Drupal.
In combination with the recently developed functionality to author and export content from Drupal in IMS LOM format, you could author courses in Drupal or Moodle, and use those courses interchangeably in Drupal, Moodle, or any other LMS that imported IMS LOM.
The IMS code, and a detailed writeup, is freely available.
The Summer of Code is open to all college students. If you're interested, apply.
Everybody's Favorite Open Source LMS: Blackboard
Submitted by billfitzgerald on Mon, 02/04/2008 - 21:43.From Michael Feldstein, via the OLDaily.
It looks like Blackboard paid for Google adwords to have ads for Blackboard appear when people searched for "Open Source LMS" --
Image via Michael Feldstein
Unfortunately, the Blackboard ads appeared under the heading "Open Source LMS" creating the appearance that Blackboard is an open source product.
Image via Michael Feldstein
It appears that Blackboard has pulled the ad. And here I was, expecting to see a link to the "Blackboard Free Download" page, and their Community Support wiki.
