Kaltura, the developer of the open source rich media platform of the same name, is getting deeper integration with two major learning management systems: Desire2Learn Learning Environment and Blackboard Learn.
Blackboard has released an update to its flagship commercial learning management system, Blackboard Learn.
Edvance360 has added video conferencing and plagiarism detection to its learning management system, Edvance360 LMS-SN.
Blackboard has released a new version of its conferencing system, Collaborate, developed from the integration of technologies from Elluminate and Wimba, two companies Blackboard acquired a year ago.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/11/11
Gartner researcher Marti Harris provides her perspective on the Blackboard acquisition and what it means for the company and its customers.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/01/11
Blackboard reported it's being acquired by a private equity firm with a big stake in the education market.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/01/11
Social networking and online chatting might be a distraction for some, but the makers of the online course management system Prof-desk are using Web-based collaborative tools to connect teachers and students to assignments and to each other--for free.
- By Kerry Sullivan
- 06/24/11
An acquisition done by Desire2Learn in November 2010 is extending its reach. The learning management system vendor has announced a new mobile developer program to encourage programmers to expand the functionality of the company's mobile platform, Desire2Learn Campus Life.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/23/11
A community college in Arizona is teaming up with the New York Times to produce online teacher preparation courses.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/21/11
A company with its own learning management system (LMS) for academic and corporate use has taken the social networking aspects of its LMS and turned them into an add-on product that will work with competing LMSes.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/09/11