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• IMS Learning Information Services: The State of the Union

  
  e-Literate — Authority: 414
  Regular e-Literate readers know that I am a big booster of the IMS Learning Information Services specification. (For an overview of the basics of the specification, see my posts here , here , and here .) There has been a lot of news recently about adoption, and I thought it would be worthwhile to pull together a ...
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• Earnings highlights: Cisco, Ford, Humana, MasterCard, Starbuck, Toyota ...

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 663
  Filed under: Earnings reports , Cisco Systems (CSCO) , Starbucks (SBUX) , Ford Motor (F) , Toyota Motor Corp. (TM) , MasterCard IncA (MA) , Activision Inc (ATVI) , Polo Ralph LaurenA (RL) Here are some highlights from last weeks earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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• Desire2Learn Delivers IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability (BLTI) Support

  
  e-Literate — Authority: 414
  In other IMS news, Desire2Learn has announced that they are the first LMS provider to support BLTI, a specification designed to support plugging third-party tools into an LMS. According to the press release , here’s what’s included: Management interfaces to define integrations to external learning tools (Tool ...
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• Doctor Up Your Portfolio With This Medical Communications Company

  
  Investment U — Authority: 430
  Doctor Up Your Portfolio With This Medical Communications Company by Louise Harris, Investment U Research The healthcare reform debate continues to swirl in Washington. And Marc Lichtenfeld and Louis Basenese have discussed this crucial topic recently, offering their thoughts on the companies best positioned to ...
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• Beware This Tech-Tonic Shift In The Global Technology Sector

  
  Investment U — Authority: 430
  Beware This Tech-Tonic Shift In The Global Technology Sector by Tony Daltorio, Investment U Research If you’re betting on a recovery in technology stocks based on third quarter earnings reports from companies such as IBM (NYSE: IBM ) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG ), you’re not alone. While economists ...
  3 days ago

• Black Wave 2: Blackboard Wave Integration!

  
  MASHe — Authority: 415
  Yesterday I showed you how you could embed Google Wave into Blackboard . At the time I tweeted this as “Google Wave embedded into Blackboard WebCT. A world 1st? http://twitgoo.com/4p068″ ( the tweet ). Turns out I might have not been the first to do this as George Kroner showcased a Blackboard Wave integration ...
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• Bank On HSBC Holdings (NYSE: HBC) and the Asian Equation

  
  Investment U — Authority: 430
  Bank On HSBC Holdings (NYSE: HBC) and the Asian Equation Tony Daltorio, Investment U Research “Go west, young man, go west!” Written by Indiana journalist John Soule in 1851 and popularized by New York Tribune founder Horace Greeley the same year, that now-famous saying advised people to take advantage ...
  4 days ago

• Blackboard is Buzzing at EDUCAUSE

  
  Blackboard Blogs — Authority: 112
  EDUCAUSE officially kicked-off its national conference yesterday in Denver, and we’ve seen some great enthusiasm from clients and the community. The booth (#423) was packed with attendees who wanted to hear more about the newest platform, Blackboard Mobile .   Attendees were very excited about the addition of ...
  4 days ago

• How To Play the Oil Conspiracy Theories

  
  Investment U — Authority: 430
  How To Play the Oil Conspiracy Theories Tony Daltorio, Investment U Research Despite the world’s economic growth woes this year and consequent decreased energy demand in the U.S., the price of oil has held up pretty well this year ($77 as of November 3) when you’d actually think that it would be lower. ...
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• The Blackboard Jungle (1955)

  
  Cinemaroll — Authority: 134
  The Blackboard Jungle insert movie poster image courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries Director Richard Brooks and MGM brought The Blackboard Jungle to movie theaters in 1955. Glenn Ford plays an idealistic teacher struggling to reach his students, with Anne Francis as his sympathetic wife. Evan Hunter’s The ...
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• Incorporating Google Apps with Blackboard

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 555
  eSchool News (2009) Blackboard works on Google integration, eSchool News , November 3 A report of work at Northwestern University to provide an open-source integration of Google Apps and Blackboard, facilitating group project work and other educational applications.
  5 days ago

• Students Get a Second Chance at Graduation: Voices from K-12

  
  Blackboard Blogs — Authority: 112
  In late September, I blogged about how online credit recovery programs help to increase graduation rates. As I mentioned, online credit recovery addresses different learning styles and paces, and helps students when they need it the most (see Credit Recovery eduviews publication ). At BbWorld ’09, we caught up ...
  6 days ago

• Announcing Blackboard Mobile

  
  Blackboard Blogs — Authority: 112
  Below is a letter from Michael Chasen to the client community about the recently announced Blackboard Mobile: Dearclient community, Imwriting to provide an update on our progress in the mobile realm and tohighlight the latest addition to our family of platform solutions, Blackboard Mobile TM .   As ...
  6 days ago

• Ray Blogs

  
  Blackboard Blogs — Authority: 112
  Ray Henderson (@readmeray) is back at the keys, with an update to his earlier “GradingOurselves” post and another one on the importance of asynchronous learningtools.   Hello, world.   I’mback to keys after a hiatus of several weeks. Your encouragement to me to keepup my reporting whilst ...
  6 days ago

• Familiar Villains: Apple and Blackboard Attack Linux/Free Software Again

  
  fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news — Authority: 158
  Apple kicks Palms Linux-powered phones out of iTunes and Blackboard spreads FUD about Free software counterparts
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• Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 549
  Readers are beginning to wonder whether they are seeing the beginning of a longer term trend (my take: they are). "I wonder if this is the start of some sort of trend where content providers of all types, including the traditional library database producers, will seek partnerships with Blackboard and other courseware ...
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• Blackboards Response to Open Source: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 549
  Michael Feldstein analyzes a letter circulated by Blackboard responding to an evaluation of open source competitors (specifically, Moodle and Sakai) being considered by the University of North Carolina. The Blackboard response is arguably pernicious (in a way people who have read their legal filings can attest) and ...
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• 5 Bb tips for managing grades more easily

  
  CIT Blog — Authority: 112
  1. DOWN ARROWS Blackboard 8 introduced new  “contextual menus” – the down-arrows icon on the Grade Center. Don’t be afraid to click through some of these icons. You will discover many familiar features you have been used over years as well as some new ones. Mouse over a grade and a student name; you will ...
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• Fair Enough

  
  e-Literate — Authority: 414
  I received the following email from George Kroner, a developer who works for Blackboard: I wanted to point out one issue I take with your recent blog post. OSCELOT, the open source organization that you mention, is not maintained by Blackboard. Rather, OSCELOT is a separate, independent organization that was founded ...
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• Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts

  
  ACRLog — Authority: 519
  A New Courseware Trend? This news item caught my eye. It announces an agreement between Blackboard and NBC in which the former will now offer access to the latter’s content. It states: Blackboard is providing academic users with access to historical multimedia resources from NBC Learn. The two companies today ...
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