Signaling a dramatic shift in strategy and product offerings, Blackboard Inc. last week purchased two companies built on the Moodle platform, the free learning-management system popular mostly because ...

In its own statement, Blackboard said it commits to not to assert its current U.S. patent, or any pending patents, “against the development, use or distribution of open source software or homegrown ...

For years, colleges looking for course-management software considered a choice between Blackboard’s dominant commercial product or an open-source alternative such as Moodle or Sakai. Now Blackboard ...

The move complements Blackboard's existing focus on supporting the entire education experience with products and services for learning management as well as mobility, real time collaboration, ...

Blackboard Inc.'s patent for e-learning software, which academic critics say is overly broad and likely to stymie innovation in classroom technology, is facing a challenge to its validity. The ...

Ah, to be proprietary and free from those pesky open-source projects! This is almost certainly the feeling at Blackboard, the "Microsoft of Higher Education" which is coming under increased pressure ...

NEW ORLEANS, July 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Inc., a leading education technology company for teaching, learning and student engagement, today announced the Open Innovation Initiative to ...