Blackboard News & Articles

What is it in business that brings out the worst of people when the subject of mergers and acquisitions raises its head? Initial reactions generally speaking tend to be negative and dominated by ‘bigger is badder’ prognostics that may or may not be accurate.

Such is the case this month with the announcement that Blackboard, a provider of Learning Management Suites (LMS) is to take over its (smaller) rival ANGEL Learning.

To date, much of the reaction to the US$ 95 million deal has been at best skeptical and at worst just plain bad. However, Nicole Engelbert, lead analyst of public sector technology at Datamonitor, the data analytic and forecasting provider for the tech sector, says the real issue here -- and possibly the one that could make this the ‘deal of the year’ - is how competitors react to the news.
 

The clever folk at Northwestern University have developed an open source application able to manage the exchange of content between the Xythos basic content services product and the popular Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS).