{"id":957,"date":"2009-05-06T23:38:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T03:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2011-02-20T21:43:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T02:43:38","slug":"no-hiding-from-blackboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2009\/05\/06\/no-hiding-from-blackboard\/","title":{"rendered":"No Hiding From Blackboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some former WebCT (bought by Blackboard) customers switched to ANGEL rather than move to Blackboard products.\u00c2\u00a0PDF Apr 14, 2009\u00c2\u00a0Today, Blackboard announced it is buying ANGEL. You can run, but you cannot hide from Blackboard.<\/p>\n

Some light reading for you…<\/p>\n

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  1. Learning, Together<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0ANGEL Learning and Blackboard\u00c2\u00ae<\/sup>\u00c2\u00a0have decided to join forces.<\/li>\n
  2. Blackboard Plans to Buy Another Rival, Angel\u00c2\u00a0Learning<\/a> | Chronicle.com<\/li>\n
  3. Why HigherEd is rejecting Blackboard …<\/a> | Laura Gekeler<\/li>\n
  4. Open Thread on Blackboard\/ANGEL Merger<\/a> |\u00c2\u00a0mfeldstein.com<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So the options left are…<\/p>\n

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    1. Blackboard<\/a>-WebCT-ANGEL<\/li>\n
    2. Moodle<\/a><\/li>\n
    3. Desire2Learn<\/a> (currently in patent troubles with Bb)<\/li>\n
    4. Pearson eCollege<\/a><\/li>\n
    5. Sakai<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Some former WebCT (bought by Blackboard) customers switched to ANGEL rather than move to Blackboard products.\u00c2\u00a0PDF Apr 14, 2009\u00c2\u00a0Today, Blackboard announced it is buying ANGEL. You can run, but you cannot hide from Blackboard. Some light reading for you… Learning, Together\u00c2\u00a0ANGEL Learning and Blackboard\u00c2\u00ae\u00c2\u00a0have decided to join forces. Blackboard Plans to Buy Another Rival, Angel\u00c2\u00a0Learning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[588,589,590,591,587,3056,586,387,184,439,245,226,456,179,211,221],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbvista","tag-angel-learning","tag-bb-angel","tag-bbplusangel","tag-blackboard-inc","tag-chronicle","tag-desire2learn","tag-ecollege","tag-https","tag-laura-gekeler","tag-merge","tag-moodle","tag-patent","tag-php","tag-reading","tag-sakai","tag-webct"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-fr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}