This just in from Desire2Learn’s patent blog: Blackboard issued two press releases regarding its acquisition of ANGEL Learning (ANGEL) – one on May 6, announcing the intention to acquire, and one on May 11, stating that the acquisition was complete. Indeed, Matthew Small, Blackboard’s chief business officer (and general counsel) stated “I don’t think that there’s any […]
What Makes It Great?
When I was in college, I was very fortunate to have Rob Kapilow as a choral conductor and music history professor. Rob has an uncanny knack for boiling down the brilliance of a piece of music so that anyone could hear it in just a short snippet. “Anyone else would have written this,” he’d say, […]
Three Tests for the 'New' Blackboard
Today Blackboard announced that ANGEL’s Ray Henderson will be the new President of the Blackboard Learn division. This is great news. Ray is one of the best executives in educational technology today, known for his competence, his integrity, and his leadership in supporting open standards and openness in general. Does this mean a new beginning […]
Open Thread on Blackboard/ANGEL Merger
Update: It looks like “bbplusangel” has already gotten some momentum on Twitter, so I’m switching my tag over to that. I’ve already invited the opinions of ANGEL customers on a different post, but let me throw the doors wide open. I’m really curious to hear from all of you regarding your opinions. What are your hopes? […]
Looking for ANGEL Customer Reaction
I’m looking to get a sense of the reaction of the Blackboard/ANGEL news from ANGEL customers. If you are an ANGEL customer, please let me know what you think in the comments to this post. If you are writing a blog post of your own, please ping this post by linking to it. (Your post […]
Wow
As you may have heard by now, Blackboard has acquired ANGEL. There will be plenty of time for analysis in the days ahead. For now, I just have a personal message. To my friends at ANGEL, I wish you well. You all have done great work advancing the causes of interoperability and ease of use, […]
EduPatent Updates
As others have already noted, Desire2Learn has updated their patent info blog with a smorgasbord of new information. (Frustratingly, the posts on the blogs don’t seem to have permalinks. Except when they do. Ugh.) Anyway, you can go to their blog and look at the April 29th entry for the details, but here are the […]