LEARN NC Psychological Software Solutions Blackboard buys Moodlerooms...And no, this isn't an early April Fools My first reaction when I saw this news today was something along the lines of, "Wait, what? lolz! Gotta retweet that one!" Then, of course, I realized that it was true. Blackboard announced the acquisition of both Moodlerooms and Netspot today, along with the creation of a new "Open Source Services Group", headed by none other than Charles Severance, founding Chief Architect of the Sakai Project. Far less surprising than Blackboards announcement that it had just acquired two of the largest providers of the open source Moodle LMS was the reaction from competitors. It looks like Blackboard is giving up on innovation and instead is focused on commoditizing the LMS. Of course, Blackboard, which was itself recently acquired by a private equity firm for a cool $1.64 billion, said precisely the opposite in a press release: Moodle founder, Martin Dougiamas, was measured in his response, and was quoted in the Blackboard press release: So is this a good thing? Sure, this is marketing.
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