By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology
The acquisition of Moodlerooms by Blackboard brings two archrivals under the same tent. Just what does Blackboard have in mind for open source education? In discussing the higher ed LMS market, pundits invariably fall back on Star Wars analogies: Blackboard is the all-powerful Empire waging a scorched-earth campaign against the struggling Rebel Alliance, made up of smaller competitors such as Desire2Learn, Moodle, Sakai, and Instructure. But not even Hollywood could dream up the kind of plot twist unveiled on March 26, when Blackboard announced the acquisition of Moodlerooms and NetSpot. That ‘s like Darth Vader adopting Yoda and joining a bowling league with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Just what is going on here?
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