David Nagel stated on the Campus Technology blog that “Iowa State University and Blackboard have partnered to develop technologies that will allow Blackboard’s learning environment to integrate with the open-source Moodle learning management system. Iowa State will lead the development effort, with Blackboard providing support.”
One of my complaints of propriety LMSs and CMSs is that it often difficult to transfer classes and content to new frameworks. Partnerships such as this may help instructors and institutions to transition between Blackboard and Moodle.
November 1, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Proprietary v. Open Source
Is this a problem? It is interesting that the Blackboard program is now trying to use freeware in their system. Is this the move in the future, where proprietary software uses or buys up useful Open Source programs? There is a clear advantage to the freeware programs such as Moodle. All can access them and anyone can modify them for their own benefits. If they become inaccessible for some reason, by those that want to keep them for themselves, then we may end up losing our rights to the freeware, and online monopolies would begin.
November 6, 2008 at 5:12 pm
In these systems you defined content as objects. Many of the original standards were focused on how to defined this objects and how to make them compatible with multiples platforms. This is still a mayor issue in the design and development departments of LCM systems.
Larissa