In my Web Essentials online course I facilitate a discussion on the future of internet technologies. One student focused on how education is, and, as you’ll see here, should be affected:
The internet is a rebel and a bully, threatening to destroy the established system of education that dictates how we learn. Shocked? Well, this is a good thing any way you look at it (more…)
Today Blackboard announced that it has acquired ANGEL Learning, Inc., producer of one of the most widely used course management system (CMS) in US higher education (according to ITC‘s March 2009 Distance Education survey, ANGEL was 2nd only to Blackboard+WebCT). In 2005 Blackboard acquired its primary rival WebCT, making it quite possibly the number one CMS provider to higher education institutions in the USA. (more…)