Yeah, maybe too snarky, but it does seem that we have been hearing about the embrace of standards for a while. In his new blog Blackboarder Ray Henderson says that Blackboard is going to be showing some more leadership in the area of standards. This is great news and certainly we need more of it.
However, commenter Roddy Warnock points to a critical part of Henderson's post vis
Once standards like these get implemented, creators of learning content and tools will of course still need to have formal partnerships (for example in our case participating in the Blackboard Building Blocks™ program or the Blackboard Content Provider network) with platform providers like us in order to connect their standards-compliant tool or content to eLearning platforms through supported interfaces. That’s the same as it is today
Doesn't seem that open. I would love to be proven wrong but I fear that Blackboard will continue like many LMSs to be the roach motel's of data. You can get it in, but you cant get it out. (ht Dorothea Salo on Institutional repositories).
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