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1998

IMS Broadens International Scope and Signs-On Australia and Singapore as Investment Members

Publication: Business Wire Date: Tuesday, December 8 1998 SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 8, 1998–IMS, a coalition of corporate, academic and government organizations dedicated to growing a robust distributed learning market through widespread adoption of standards for learning content and systems, today announced that it has obtained investment support from two additional countries-further broadening the reach of IMS’s […]

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Blackboard Announces Development of IMS-based Course Delivery Tools

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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Blackboard Announces Development of IMS-based Course Delivery Tools

4/29/1998 , Washington, D.C. – Blackboard Inc. today announced a major internal development effort to launch a full line of software products that will help university faculty deliver courses over the World Wide Web. The products are based on CourseInfo, a leading web-based course management system, and will utilize technologies developed by Blackboard on behalf

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Blackboard History – IMS and CourseInfo

“Blackboard’s upcoming merger with CourseInfo gives us a fantastic opportunity to provide higher education with a web-based course management system that leverages our work with the Educom Instructional Management Systems project” said Blackboard Chairman and CEO Matthew Pittinsky. “As the primary technical contractor to IMS, Blackboard has long been a supporter of open standards for Internet-based education. All Blackboard products will be based on IMS in the short term and fully IMS compliant as the standard evolves.”

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