{"id":6985,"date":"2010-07-07T17:31:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T21:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=6985"},"modified":"2010-07-08T08:38:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T12:38:59","slug":"blackboard-acquires-wimba-and-elluminate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/07\/07\/blackboard-acquires-wimba-and-elluminate\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard acquires Wimba and Elluminate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/sites\/collaborate\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/sites\/collaborate\/index.htm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Today, we\u2019ve announced that Elluminate, Wimba, and Blackboard will join  forces<\/strong> to bring together the leading technology products for synchronous  learning and collaboration &#8211; and the minds that created them &#8211; in what  we hope will be a major step forward to pursue new innovation.<\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/sites\/collaborate\/client_letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The letter to clients<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ray Henderson&#8217;s(Bb)\u00a0 blog posting entitled, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rayhblog.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/a-big-investment-in-educational-collaboration.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8220;A Big Investment in Educational Collaboration&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Matt Wasowksi&#8217;s (Wimba) posting entitled, <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimba.com\/community\/blog\/the_biggest_of_many_changes_blackboard_to_acquire_wimba_and_elluminate\" target=\"_blank\">The  Biggest of Many Changes &#8211; Blackboard to Acquire Wimba AND Elluminate&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2010\/07\/08\/blackboard\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Blackboard&#8217;s Big Buy<\/strong><\/a> (Inside Higher Ed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/sites\/collaborate\/index.htm Today, we\u2019ve announced that Elluminate, Wimba, and Blackboard will join forces to bring together the leading technology products for synchronous learning and collaboration &#8211; and the minds that created them &#8211; in what we hope will be a major step forward to pursue new innovation. See also: The letter to clients Ray Henderson&#8217;s(Bb)\u00a0 [&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":[28,189,49],"tags":[735,583,666,593,683],"class_list":["post-6985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmslms","category-videoconferencing","category-web-based-collaboration","tag-blackboard","tag-cmslms","tag-videoconferencing","tag-web-based-collaboration","tag-wimba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985","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=6985"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6997,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985\/revisions\/6997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}