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A technological glitch is confounding information technology experts and causing major headaches for some students and professors across the UW System as the 2012-13 academic year gets under way. eCampus News Full Article
With Desire2Learn Learning Suite 10, clients are experiencing the most advanced platform to date combining incredible usability and personalization with feature-rich capabilities. Desire2Learn Press Release
“The CMS became the IMS became the LMS became…” A few short years from now, what will we tell our children about the storied past of the LMS? What will it become? In the 1990s, the course management system (CMS) emerged to help faculty manage their courses through the Web. The name morphed to IMS […]
For years, colleges looking for course-management software considered a choice between Blackboard’s dominant commercial product or an open-source alternative such as Moodle or Sakai. Now Blackboard essentially owns the open-source alternatives as well.Wired CampusFull Article
Google artificial-intelligence guru Sebastian Thrun made a splash last month when he left Stanford University to start a company based on an A.I. course he made freely available last fall to tens of thousands of students on the Web. Now, two of Thrun’s former Stanford colleagues who conducted similar experiments have spun off their own […]
Bridgewater State University students will soon be leaving Blackboard behind and switching to Moodle as a learning management system.Due to a recent decision made by Information Technology Services, students will begin using Moodle next Fall. The decision was made for a number of reasons, including the many issues BSU professors and students have faced with […]
The institution that led the call for freely available lectures, videos, and exams created by its instructors and shared with the world will now do the same with online learning. SOURCE: Campus TechnologyRead the Full Article
Latest release focuses on enhanced social media integration, rich media management and simplified communication for instructors and learnersSOURCE: Desire2LearnRead the Press Release
It seems that students have stopped hating Moodle.After almost a full semester of everybody using Moodle instead of Blackboard, students have adapted to the new portal.Senior Allison Poulin who had used Blackboard for three years, took an online class using Moodle during the summer and said that it took her some time to get used […]
