Blackboard Buys into Open Source

To be honest, I wasn’t completely shocked that Blackboard stepped into the Moodle ring in a major way on Monday. If you’ve been following the developments in the learning management system market it makes perfect sense: there’s a growing number of players, open source players are positioning themselves as the “zero cost to entry” providers, and now large publishers are joining the mix to better protect their content and maximize their ROI in textbooks and digital materials.