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Foil 24 Major Commercial Education Portal Technology I

From Collaborative Portals for Distributed and Distance Learning NCSA Industrial Partners Meeting -- October 12-13 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Blackboard has popular products (CourseInfo, Campus) which have very good administrative support including linkage to University student databases.
2 1000 institutions (300,000 people) using this
3 Modest capability to author curricula but good tools such as discussion lists, homework, grading and simple quizzes
4 No Built-In Synchronous Delivery
5 http://www.blackboard.com
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