{"id":64242,"date":"2018-07-30T08:25:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T12:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=64242"},"modified":"2018-07-30T09:06:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T13:06:34","slug":"moodle-and-blackboard-cut-ties-feldstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/07\/30\/moodle-and-blackboard-cut-ties-feldstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Moodle and Blackboard cut ties [Feldstein]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mfeldstein.com\/moodle-and-blackboard-cut-ties\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Moodle and Blackboard cut ties<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from mfeldstein.com by Michael Feldstein<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Moodle just\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/moodle.com\/moodle-partners\/moodle-ends-partnership-blackboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a>\u00a0that Blackboard &#8220;will transition out of Moodle\u2019s Certified Moodle Partner program in the coming months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is consequential for both Moodle and Blackboard. On the Moodle side, we have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mfeldstein.com\/why-moodle-supporters-should-be-concerned\/\">written<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mfeldstein.com\/fear-loathing-moodle-community\/\">about<\/a>\u00a0Moodle&#8217;s financial dependence on Blackboard as a partner and how that creates some risk for the community. Since those posts, Moodle has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/moodle.com\/news\/moodle-welcomes-6m-european-investment-fuel-growth-innovation\/\">received $6 million in outside investment<\/a>.\u00a0According to Moodle Pty&#8217;s press release, that investment, combined with a decline in Blackboard&#8217;s financial contributions to Moodle made it feasible for Moodle to break off from the partnership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Note that all the information we have right now is Moodle&#8217;s press release; we will circle back to this story once we&#8217;ve had a chance to talk to folks from both Moodle and Blackboard and have caught up enough on our blogging schedule that we can give this story the attention that it deserves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moodle and Blackboard cut ties &#8212; from mfeldstein.com by Michael Feldstein Excerpt: Moodle just\u00a0announced\u00a0that Blackboard &#8220;will transition out of Moodle\u2019s Certified Moodle Partner program in the coming months.&#8221; This is consequential for both Moodle and Blackboard. On the Moodle side, we have\u00a0written\u00a0about\u00a0Moodle&#8217;s financial dependence on Blackboard as a partner and how that creates some risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,115,302,32,3,46,309,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmslms","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-education-technology","category-higher-education","category-k-12-related","category-platforms","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64259,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64242\/revisions\/64259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}