Joseph Thibault

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USA

Joseph is a husband, start-up junkie/entrepreneur, open source software user, blogger and online course manager/developer for www.StraighterLine.com. His goal is to advance open source software, open educational resources, educational opportunities and to make education more efficient. He writes about Moodle (at www.MoodleNews.com) and a host of other interests wherever he can get published.

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Authored Content

How university open debates and discussions introduced me to open source

Blackboard buys into open source

To be honest, I wasn't completely shocked that Blackboard stepped into the Moodle ring in a major way on Monday. If you've been following the developments in the learning…

Introducing the OER university: 5 Questions with Wayne Mackintosh

I first learned of the idea of OERu from a webinar coordinated by Steve Hargadon at FutureofEducation.com's lecture series. With the growing options for free education ( P2PU…

Source wars: Blackboard sets its sights on being more "free" than Moodle

Recently Blackboard, the learning management system (LMS) company, announced its plans to seek new business using one of the open source way's most attractive tools to…

Moodle Milestone: 2.0 Beta Preview

Those who've been waiting for the release of Moodle 2.0 are getting their open source just rewards this week. The release, which has been met already with several delays, is a…

Can you Moodle me now?

In its 10 year history, Moodle has been confined to computer screens around the world; with countless fields, description areas and scrolling filling the screen. There have…

Moodle: open source, closed doors.

It's the leading open source learning management system in the world. It provides 100s of 1000s (millions?) of students and teachers, learners and educators a means of…

Authored Comments

joeythibault

4 Apr 2012

Blackboard buys into open source

Interestingly Coursesites.com (a Blackboard project) just announced this integration option. https://www.coursesites.com/bbcswebdav/institution/coursesites-files/training/Job%20Aids/Adding%20Google%20Docs%20to%20Courses.pdf

Generally these features are later pushed to Learn...

As for Moodle there is SSO with Google Apps for Education and there are some plugins to add "web viewable" capabilities for uploaded files from MS Office and/or OpenOffice.

joeythibault

4 Apr 2012

Blackboard buys into open source

No Blackboard built it's own product which is proprietary. Through the acquisition they now have Moodle as another offering in their product line but the Moodle code base is not owned by Blackboard (Moodle.com manages and develops the codebase)