News Update
Breaking Stories in Higher Ed
3/27/2012

Special Report

  • Blackboard Buys Out Moodlerooms, NetSpot

    Blackboard is buying out two major players in the open source services space: Moodlerooms and NetSpot. With the purchases, the company is also launching its own open source division: Blackboard Education Open Source Services.

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  • Blackboard Speaks Out on Open Source Move

    In this Q&A, Blackboard Learn President Ray Henderson and Moodlerooms Chairman and CEO Lou Pugliese explain why Blackboard is getting into the open source business, what's different about delivering services to those customers versus Blackboard's traditional customers, and what might be next on the open source agenda for the No. 1 learning management system company in the world.

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  • Blackboard Extends Support for Angel LMS 'Indefinitely'

    Education customers that are still running the Angel learning management system and wondering what they should do when the product is officially retired have received a reprieve.

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Campus Technology News

Professional Resources

  • On-Demand Webinar: Provides Blueprint to Meet Campus Network Expectations
    Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard
    Learn why campuses are no longer designing their Wi-Fi networks around coverage (the square footage of are the network should serve) but according to capacity – the number of devices per user that the network needs to support. Get a blueprint for moving your campus to this new reality. Watch this recorded presentation showing how a higher ed institution took their campus WLAN to the next level.

  • Campus-Wide ECM: Meeting Each Department's Individual Needs
    Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard
    Examine how you can digitally capture and categorize hard copy documents; which allows for real-time access by multiple users and departments and streamlines inter-departmental communications. Seamless integration with back-end applications gives this single campus-wide solution the ability to meet the unique needs of individual departments.

  • Stay Ahead of the Bad Guys – Restore Firewall Effectiveness
    Sponsored by: SonicWall
    Many enterprise network security infrastructures are essentially blind to modern applications and threats. Application control promises to restore firewall effectiveness by enabling IT to implement and enforce granular policies governing application access while helping prevent threats and unwanted exposure of data. Download new white paper.

  • Case Study: Learn How U. of N. Florida Saved 45% in Acquisition Costs
    Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard
    After experiencing rapid growth in facilities, student population, and rich media use, UNF knew the time was right for a network upgrade. After evaluating their needs UNF upgraded their campus network. Download this white paper to learn about a networking solution that could provide your campus with the performance you need to support your rapid growth.