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- blackboard / Dell Solution for Education
- The Blackboard Academic Suite is designed to meet the teaching, learning and outcomes needs of the 21st Century campus. Blackboard is a leading provider of education software for K-12, professional education, and higher education. As adoption increases among administration, faculty, and students, there has come a need for a scalable,...
- Tags: Education, Software, Blackboard, Dell Computer Corp., Blackboard Academic Suite, Blackboard Performance Engineering Team, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2007-06-01
- blackboard wins e-learning patent, sues competitor
- A patent infringement fight is on as Blackboard won a very broad patent on e-learning technology including “core technology relating to certain systems and methods involved in offering online education, including course management systems and enterprise e-Learning systems.” The company then immediately sued competitor Desire2Learn, a learning management system developer.Another...
- Tags: Blackboard, patent
- Blog posts 2006-08-17
- Upcoming blackboard software to enable course evaluations
- Blackboard, the leader in course management software, is developing software to help colleges and universities evaluating their courses, reports Inside Higher Ed. Institutions, under pressure from accreditors, are looking for new ways to compile course data. Blackboard already has a good reputation for giving faculty the...
- Tags: faculty member, Blackboard
- Blog posts 2006-06-20
- Implementing a Semantic Web blackboard System Using Jena
- This paper discusses the need for a hybrid reasoning approach to handing Semantic Web data and explains why it believes that the Blackboard Architecture is particularly suitable. The authors describe how they have utilised it for combining ontological inference, rules and constraint based reasoning within a Semantic Web context. After...
- Tags: Blackboard, Semantic Web, Internet
- White papers 2006-04-25
- Wikipedia's Wales on education: Openness leads to critical thinking
- Keynoting at a Washington symposium on open technologies for K-12 education, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales cautioned against the "fallacy of truth" and said that collaborative knowledge products like the Wikipedia are more robust than the "hire an expert" model. According to an eSchoolNews report: Calling attention to "the fallibility...
- Tags: Blackboard, Moodle
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
- blackboard Content System - Product Overview White Paper
- This white paper provides an overview of the Blackboard Content System, its applications, core functions, and system architecture. The Blackboard Content System is a powerful software solution that benefits students, faculty and campus IT administrators by lowering the costs and making it easier to manage learning content, digital assets and...
- Tags: Blackboard, Authentication, Blackboard Content System, Portals, Web Technology, Security, Internet
- White papers 2003-10-27
- blackboard and Northwestern State University
- When the State of Louisiana's Board of Regents invited its universities and colleges to participate in the decision to select a course management system in 1999, Northwestern State University NSU already had a great success story to share. NSU had been offering online classes since 1995, and had been running...
- Tags: Blackboard, Board, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- Case studies
- blackboard ASP Speeds Development Work, Shortens Time-to-Market by 75% With NetApp Solution
- A leading provider of e-education enterprise software applications and services, Blackboard serves K-12 schools, institutions of higher education, corporations, government agencies, textbook publishers, and educational merchants. Blackboard wanted to improve data replication capabilities and improve developer productivity. Blackboard also wanted to meet time-to-market schedules and minimize need for new storage....
- Tags: Blackboard, Data Replication, Microsoft ASP, NetApp, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- Distance Education: A Brief Overview
- Technology has changed education. Most people think of online courses taken through Blackboard or WebCT when they hear the term distance education. However, distance education was a viable alternative to traditional education even before the Internet became popular. This paper gives a brief definition of distance education, outlines procedures for...
- Tags: Distance Education, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-04-24
- Sakai: Open source alternative to blackboard
- Sakai: Open source alternative to BlackboardWeb 2.0 TechnologiesSakai has a great interface. I'm a University educator and our school is trying out both Moodle and Sakai. Anything is better than the Blackboard interface.My question is, what about Web 2.0 technologies? Doesn't Sakai still fall under Web 1.0, in that it...
- Tags: Web 2.0, open source, Sakai
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- QuizForce (zip)
- QuizForce is a comprehensive and easy-to-use toolkit which allows you to create Flash-based quizzes, surveys and assessments without the need to know programming. Create Flash quizzes and surveys in a minute. With the help of QuizForce you can create Rapid and efficient Flash-based quizzes and surveys for e-learning on your...
- Tags: Survey, Elearningforce, QuizForce, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-04-15
- Kokuban blackboard Nx (zip)
- Super kakkoii blackboard simulator. There are many funny tool, realistic chalk, realistic eraser, triangle ruler, long eraser, Recording mode, camera mode, and any more this software series was prize "Highest Award"(Japan's minister of economy, trade and industry award). This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Mode, Camera, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-02-29
- Should we even bother?
- Should we even bother?Not just for presentationBear in mind that technology shouldn't just be used for presentation but also for interaction. That doesn't necessarily mean doing anything fancy - for example, cloze exercises that can be completed on-screen can be created using basic word-processing tools. But in that case, I...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Microsoft Office, One Laptop Per Child project, SnapKast, PBS Frontline, video, education
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- Cheap laptops are great, but sometimes you need horsepower
- As most of my readers know, my interest in affordable, highly mobile laptops for education has really taken off lately. It's very clear that, whether under the guise of the Eee, the XO, or another slick little cheap laptop, 1:1 computing is becoming both realistic and sustainable, since these...
- Tags: Public Speaking, Video, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- New tool from MIT makes online lectures genuinely useful
- While it is becoming increasingly common and easy for lectures to be placed online as videos or podcasts, such media can often be very limited in their utility. For example, I missed a lecture last week for my numerical analysis class. Fortunately, the professor always posts his lectures...
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Tool, Lecture, Speech Recognition, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- OpenSUSE beats Ubuntu to the punch
- OpenSUSE beats Ubuntu to the punchAdditional benefitsOpenSuSE is the only 'Microsoft certified Linux', even better;)False comparison but good reviewThe title "OpenSUSE beats Ubuntu to the punch" implies that the two distro vendors were racing to release the same capability, and OpenSUSE got their first. That's silly, of course -...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Novell OpenSuse, Novell Inc., Linux, Ubuntu, WARNING LABEL
- Discussion threads 2007-10-05
- Presentations added to Google Docs and Spreadsheets
- Presentations added to Google Docs and SpreadsheetsGoogle strikes againOK, so the Google presentation beta package needs a little 'tweaking' but in less than a couple of minutes I had a new presentation created and running and available to colleagues anywhere.Ya gotta love the potential here. It can only get...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Office, Google Docs, Google Inc., spreadsheet
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- A Mac-to-school guide
- As I opened Monday's paper, I noticed a CNET Back to School Guide in the technology/business section. It's a slice of the greater Gift Ideas package launched on CNET.However, the print package is filled with suggestions for PCs that students should take to school. All but one of the desktops...
- Tags: Printer, Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- How many of you give tests online?
- How many of you give tests online?Open Source Online AssessmentsChris, Check out http://os4ed.com. We are working to release open source administrstive applications for K-12. We are currently working toward the final release of Version 4.0 of openCentre SIS, we have a release 1.0 data warehouse called openIntel...
- Tags: instructor, online test
- Discussion threads 2007-06-15
- DrawDemo (widget)
- DrawDemo is a simple drawing widget, somewhat like a whiteboard or blackboard. With DrawDemo, you can draw rectangles/squares/triangles, ellipses/circles, and lines. The images can be colorized, rotated, dragged, zoomed, and deleted. The canvas can be exported and re-imported. You can also drag and drop image files onto the canvas and...
- Tags: Canvas, Object, DrawDemo
- Software downloads 2007-06-13
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