3 strategies to start reimagining the learning management system
I wrote several weeks ago that we need to deconstruct the learning management system (LMS) and then reimagine it from the ground up as a “learning” system, not a…
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Cloud-based LMS challenges Blackboard to major security review
A relatively new kid on the learning management system block has jabbed Blackboard Inc. in the chest for three months, daring the commercial LMS behemoth to conduct a…
Moodlerooms CEO: Blackboard acquisition will expand open-source movement
Lou Pugliese, CEO of Moodlerooms, said Blackboard’s purchase of his company and another firm that hosts and supports the popular open-source learning management system (LMS) Moodle should be…
Realizing the power of ‘open’ to transform higher education
As the concept of open source has evolved and expanded over the past two decades from difficult-to-manage productivity and organizational tools to a vast, friendly, and rapidly growing…
Report: Mobile app use exploding on campus
Colleges and universities have made significant gains in deploying mobile applications over the past year, according to the 2011 Campus Computing Survey, the largest continuing study of higher-education…
Vendors link e-textbook content with LMS software
As digital textbooks become more common on higher-ed campuses, providers are making it easy for professors to share textbook notes and resources with students through their class learning…