This is good news. Former ANGELista and current Blackboard Learn President Ray Henderson has started a blog, where he says he will respond to conversations in the blogosphere and generally try to make Blackboard more transparent. He has also turned blog comments on, which he acknowledges is a small deal in the wider world but a non-trivial deal for a corporate blog. (This is true.) Maybe he’ll respond to my post on three tests for the”new” Blackboard.
In marginally related news (under the heading of “openness”), I learned from Blackboard folks on Twitter that Blackboard’s API documentation is available without requiring a contract or login at their EduGarage site. FWIW.
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There is an open source community built around Blackboard building blocks (primarily, not exclusively), OSCELOT (Open Source Community for Educational Learning Objects and Tools). http://oscelot.org
Lots of free building blocks are available through the community and there is a dynamic listserve on which folks (whether officially part of OSCELOT or not) share ideas and swap technical help. Folks can sign up at http://bb-opensource.org/
fwiw.