Blackboard Inc. announced a major investment in open source today with news that it has acquired Moodlerooms and NetSpot, two leading providers of open source online learning solutions to the education industry. Both organizations will continue to operate independently to support their clients.
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iStrategy Solutions and Blackboard have decided to join forces. Last week, iStrategy was formally acquired by Blackboard. Together we hope to take a significant step forward in serving the data-driven decision making and analytics needs of education.
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JULY 20, 2004
Blackboard (BBBB ) entered the market on June 18 at $14 a share, then rose to $23.38 and finally closed the day at $20.01. With 5.5 million offered shares, representing 21.5% of the company, Blackboard raked in $77 million. IPO analyst Tom Taulli liked what he saw: “This IPO seemed to excite investors, and they seemed to go ahead and jump on the bandwagon,” he says.
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September 18th, 2002
The Blackboard SCORM 1.2 Building Block was developed in collaboration with the National Defense University (NDU) and the ADL Co-Lab. The available technology allows the Blackboard Learning System to support educational content developed to the SCORM 1.2 specification. The National Defense University will be the first educational institution to deploy the new Building Block in support of SCORM developed content.
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June 14th, 2002
As e-Education becomes an increasingly greater part of the fabric of educational institutions, interoperability of course components and content are crucial to decision-making, development and deployment. Industry standards impact total cost of ownership, usability/upgradeability, modularity, multi-vendor support and interoperability.
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November 3rd, 2000
Read the white Paper written by company co-founders Stephen Gilfus and Matthew Pittinsky. B2 is Blackboard’s roadmap for achieving an e-Learning platform whose ultimate value is not only in the learning tools it provides, such as discussion boards and quiz generators, but also in bringing to market a widely-supported technology foundation for assembling the best Blackboard-enabled tools and content by or for a particular instructor at a particular institution.
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Blackboard Inc. today announced that more than 75 colleges and universities 2/4/1999 , Washington, D.C. – Blackboard Inc. today announced that more than 75 colleges and universities have selected Blackboard CourseInfo, developed at Cornell University, course management system to add an online component to their curriculum. Leading institutions such as Arizona State University, University of
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May 14th,1998
“Few people know IMS better than Blackboard” stated Michael Pettit, Blackboard’s Chief Systems Architect. “We think IMS will quickly become a viable architecture on which to build on-line education related systems, and a strong competitive advantage for Blackboard’s product line.”
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April 29th, 1998
Recent CourseInfo clients also include the Ithaca Unified School District and University of Pittsburgh, according to Daniel Cane and Stephen Gilfus who will also be joining Blackboard’s Board of Directors and Management Team pending the successful completion of a Blackboard/CourseInfo merger.
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“I sincerely believe that we have now entered the dawn of ‘dot edu’ era which will stimulate and transform students, instructors, institutions and the global economy to reach new horizons.”, “For the first time academic institutions are takeing precise control of their web presence and student experiences as online competitiveness increases.”
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