Blackboard Acquires Moodlerooms and NetSpot

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on

Today, March 26, 2012, Blackboard Inc. announced "a major investment in open source" with a news release that it has acquired Moodlerooms and NetSpot, two leading providers of open source online learning solutions to the education industry. Both organizations will "continue to operate independently to support their clients."

Moodlerooms and NetSpot are official Moodle Partners, and each will continue their current programs to support clients with no changes to their leadership or their support and service models.

In addition, each team will also become part of Blackboard’s new Education Open Source Services group, dedicated to supporting the use and development of open source learning technologies globally.

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