Nieuws

Van de Redactie | 13-08-2018 | | (0) reacties

Moodle en Blackboard stoppen samenwerking

Blackboard heeft recent meegedeeld dat het “will transition out of Moodle’s Certified Moodle Partner program in the coming months.” De beide partijen verschillen van mening wie het initiatief heeft genomen. Blackboard gebruikt de open source software van Moodle voor een LMS onder de naam Moodlerooms. Omdat het om open source gaat, kan Blackboard die blijven gebruiken. Maar een productnaam met daarin Moodle, mag niet meer.

Analist Michael Feldstein schrijft op e-Literate: “For Moodle, there is good news and risk. The good news is that it clears up the uncertainty that we have been reporting on. Moodle will now have a chance to demonstrate that they can be sustainable without depending on Blackboard. The risk, of course, is that they will now have to demonstrate that they can be sustainable without depending on Blackboard. We'll try to get some more color on this from Martin Dougiamas.

On the Blackboard side, it's bad news in the short term, but the impact is hard to quantify. Because of the open source license under which Moodle is released, Blackboard can continue to use the code in their Moodlerooms business. However, Moodle Pty. owns the Moodle trademark. So unless Blackboard negotiated something with them, they will have to change the name of their product and division. In the medium term, there are open questions about their ability/willingness to continue contributing code to mainline Moodle, customer reactions to the split and, on the potential upside, Blackboard's ability to make development decisions independently of Moodle Pty. There is some potential upside for them in that last piece, as well as not having to pay the partnership fee to Moodle.”