Blackboard’s patent for e-learning software, which academic critics say is overly broad and likely to stymie innovation in classroom technology, is facing a challenge to its validity. The Software ...

Blackboard Inc. and iParadigms have settled their patent dispute out of court to avoid litigation. Under the settlement, iParadigms, which owns the Turnitin plagiarism-detection service, has promised ...

Blackboard, the leader in course management software, is developing software to help colleges and universities evaluating their courses, reports Inside Higher Ed. Institutions, under pressure from ...

Blackboard has updated its Web conferencing application to add mobile support, user-oriented improvements, and tighter integration with learning management systems, including Moodle. Version 12 of ...

Iowa State University and Blackboard have partnered to develop technologies that will allow Blackboard's learning environment to integrate with the open-source Moodle learning management system. Iowa ...

(Reuters) - Blackboard, a U.S. software company that provides learning tools for high school and university classrooms, is exploring a sale that it hopes could value it at as much as $3 billion, ...

Blackboard Inc. chalked up its fourth acquisition in the online learning sector today, buying software created at George Washington University that helps teachers put course material on the Web and is ...

This week, in a letter addressed to “The Education Community,” Michael Chasen stepped down as the CEO of edtech software giant, Blackboard. In a way, it’s the end of an era. Whether or not it was an ...

Faculty preparing for classes this fall will find the UBlearns Web server hosting an updated version of Blackboard, the course management software in use at the ...

Blackboard Inc., a dominant company in the United States for e-learning tools, announced last week that it had acquired the education software developer ANGEL Learning Inc. The Indianapolis-based ...

LAS VEGAS -- After a year watching the hype over massive open online courses and keeping its distance, Blackboard said Wednesday it would join in. The company, which is by far the largest provider of ...