From today’s press release:
BbWorld Europe, Nice, France – February 26, 2007 – Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB), a leading provider of enterprise technology to the education industry, today unveiled, at the Annual BbWorld Europe 2007 Users Conference in Nice, its latest and most significant product offering, the Blackboard Outcomes System™ in front of 400 European and International e-Learning leaders. The new solution facilitates the continuous improvement of academic and administrative processes with a focus on student learning, academic programs and co-curricular activities.
The Blackboard Outcomes System is a comprehensive, flexible platform to guide institutional effectiveness across the entire higher education institution or system– from classrooms to the President’s Office. It was developed with guidance from national assessment experts and dozens of academic institutions including private teaching colleges, research universities, systems, and community colleges. The Blackboard Outcomes System leverages the capabilities and familiar user experience of the Blackboard Academic Suite™ to help institutions make evidence-based decisions, streamline assessment processes, and engage students in their own learning.
I think it’s interesting that Blackboard is calling Outcomes its “most significant” product offering. That gives you some sense of where they think their market is going and where they think the bulk of their business is going to be in the future.
Note also that many of Blackboard’s recent patent applications (reported by Mark Oehlert) appear to be related to this new product.
[…] Blackboard公司在e-learning上的远景与我的个人观点正好背道而驰，我认为这并不让我吃惊。这没有什么损失的，对于成功的公司来说，依然有更多更好的机会。Thomson Learning公司，同时在传统意义上也是Blackboard公司的紧密伙伴，宣布它正在采用Sakai（这并不意味着切断它与其他LMS提供商的关系）（译注：Sakai是一套开源的软件工具，可供教师和学生创建一个协作网站；LMS即学习管理系统）。他们在新闻稿中写道：”另外，Thomson Learning公司将会高兴的看到它的其中一个关键商业伙伴，Blackboard公司，朝着与开源团体合作的正确方向迈步。”是的，一小步。Thomson公司的希望是力促Blackboard公司走得更远。 Michael feldstein, e-Literate [链接] [评论] […]