This is pretty funny (well, perhaps less so if you work for WebCT): Blackboard has created a proprietary conversion kit and is directing its advertising at WebCT customers (currently themselves reeling from recent price increases). Why is this really funny? Well, of course both Blackboard and WebCT trumpet the fact that they are standards compliant. So why is a conversion kit necessary? And also: jumping from WebCT to Blackboard strikes me as being like jumping from the frying pan to the fire - the very same problems facing WebCT users (locked in proprietary format and price hikes) also face Blackboard users. Oh, the tangled web we weave...
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