Jim Groom sounded like a preacher at a religious revival when he spoke to professors and administrators at the City University of New York last month. “For the love of God, open up, CUNY,” he said, ...

Capitalizing on the rising popularity of blogs, students and professors at the University are replacing the stodgy and sometimes inflexible Blackboard software with interactive weblogs for their ...

I’m obligated to post two corrections to my April 27th blog, "Buying Blackboard." The errors were clearly mine; the errors are annoying and embarrassing. Let’s ...

Blackboard’s four-part announcement on March 26 – launching an Open Source services unit, acquiring Moodle service firms Moodlerooms and Australian-based NetSpot, extending the life of the Angel LMS, ...

The Discussion Board is an area where instructor and student comments are organized into an asynchronous conversation. Participants can post and reply to others' posts. Some faculty members provide ...

For years, colleges looking for course-management software considered a choice between Blackboard’s dominant commercial product or an open-source alternative such as Moodle or Sakai. Now Blackboard ...

Blackboard Learn is a highly customizable online learning application that allows users to take or host online courses. Students and teachers can interact using assignments, video conferencing, ...