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Instructure Launches To Root Blackboard Out Of Universities
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Re: Instructure Launches To Root Blackboard Out Of Universities
#52Best of luck to them. It's quite difficult to convince faculty to switch over from tools they are comfortable using -- especially porting over their existing lessons and modules. Focusing on the UI is definitely the right approach as Bb is clearly lacking in this space. Regardless, the LMS market is long overdue for a shake up. On another note, many universities already run and contribute to the open source Sakai LMS…
I am alum/tech support/TA at Univ. of Michigan which is one of the major contributors to Sakai so I have seen all sides of it. The actual services are pretty good, but the user interface is horrible. In defense of Sakai, the developers know the UI is horrible and are working on it. I have my doubts they will succeed since it's such a huge project.
Re: Instructure Launches To Root Blackboard Out Of Universities
#53https://www.piazzza.com/ a free alternative, that I think is here to improve in class discussion. hell with blackboard?
Over 1/2 of students at Stanford use Piazzza and they are rapidly spreading throughout MIT, Harvard, Princeton, and many more campuses.