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http://chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001081002t.htm

Web Portal Adds Free Course-Management Tools to Its Offerings
By BROCK READ

Yahoo, the popular Web portal, has tossed its hat into the online-learning ring, opening Yahoo Education, a Web site that provides course-management tools and reference materials for college and grade-school classes. One noteworthy feature of the service is something it does not include: a charge. Professors and students will see advertisement banners on the Yahoo site, but otherwise it costs them nothing. Blackboard.com also offers instructors a free Web-site-creation service. Other software from Blackboard and WebCT, another major provider of online-course tools, is marketed to institutions....



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