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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
Blackboard has popular products (CourseInfo, Campus) which have very good administrative support including linkage to University student databases.
1000 institutions (300,000 people) using this
Modest capability to author curricula but good tools such as discussion lists, homework, grading and simple quizzes
No Built-In Synchronous Delivery
http://www.blackboard.com

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