Blackboard and uPortal to Collaborate for the Benefit of Community Development; Relationship Demonstrates Blackboard's Ongoing Commitment To Open Standards and Client Choice.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2002 Blackboard (1) See Blackboard Learning System. (2) The traditional classroom presentation board that is written on with chalk and erased with a felt pad. Although originally black, "white" boards and colored chalks are also used. Inc. announced today that uPortal developed by the Java in Administration Special Interest Group (JA-SIG JA-SIG Java Application-Special Interest Group ) and the Blackboard Building Blocks(TM) program have come together to fully enable its' uPortal web platform to integrate with the Blackboard e-Education Suite(TM). This collaborative effort unites two of the e-Education industry's leading products to allow greater choice, flexibility and convenience to higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. institutions. Through Blackboard's open-architecture initiative, Building Blocks, JA-SIG uPortal adopters now have the ability to fully integrate with the Blackboard Learning System A widely used education system from Blackboard Inc., Washington, D.C. (www.blackboard.com). Part of the company's Blackboard Academic Suite, it includes course management, content authoring, collaborative discussions, virtual classrooms, as well as testing and grading. . As a result, institutions will access one place for all their campus services and information - including all of the applications that touch students, faculty and administrators on a daily basis: -- Online course environments -- Campus-wide calendaring -- Student organization Web sites "Blackboard's Building Blocks program is about offering our clients extensible solutions for their e-Education requirements," said Michael Chasen, Chief Executive Officer of Blackboard Inc. "Our collaboration with the uPortal product reflects Blackboard's commitment to the goals of open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced , the needs of colleges and universities and community-source development efforts. uPortal is just the first of many JA-SIG guided initiatives that will be built to run on top the Blackboard e-Education Suite(TM) and others." Chris Stavros, Web Strategist strat·e·gist n. One who is skilled in strategy. Noun 1. strategist - an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) strategian market strategist - someone skilled in planning marketing campaigns for California Polytechnic State University This article is about the university in San Luis Obispo, California. For Cal Poly Pomona, see California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. California Polytechnic State University, commonly called Cal Poly , San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. states, "The JA-SIG Building Blocks
partnership with Blackboard is a great step forward in complimentary
systems integration. By utilizing the Building Blocks Application
Programming interfaces (API's) in conjunction with the uPortal
framework, we are able to provide our users with a best-of-class
solution. This facilitates unified access via uPortal and one-stop
shopping for campus related services and applications, while allowing
our users to enjoy the complete benefits from Blackboard's
comprehensive e-Learning software platform."About Blackboard's Building Blocks Initiative Blackboard's Building Blocks initiative, announced in 2000, is the industry's first open set of API's and developer services for creating extensions to Blackboard. From client developed innovations that extend Blackboard into new pedagogical ped·a·gog·ic also ped·a·gog·i·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of pedagogy. 2. Characterized by pedantic formality: a haughty, pedagogic manner. frontiers, to commercial applications from 3rd party providers who speed their growth through Blackboard's platform technology and client base, Building Blocks represents a springboard for innovation in the e-Education market. About Blackboard Inc. Blackboard Inc. was founded to transform the Internet into a powerful environment for the education experience. The company offers a complete suite of enterprise software products and services that power a total "e-Education Infrastructure" for schools, colleges, universities and other education providers. Blackboard solutions deliver the promise of the Internet for online teaching and learning, campus communities, auxiliary auxiliary In grammar, a verb that is subordinate to the main lexical verb in a clause. Auxiliaries can convey distinctions of tense, aspect, mood, person, and number. services and integration of Web-enabled student services and back office systems. Blackboard's Learning, Community Portal and Transaction Systems are consistently ranked by industry analysts as the market share and customer satisfaction leaders for thousands of academic institutions and a leading number of the Internet's most popular consumer education sites. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices and staff across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , Europe and Asia. Please visit www.blackboard.com for more information. About JA-SIG The Java in Administration Special Interest Group (JA-SIG) is an independent organization designed to increase the flow of information between educational institutions and companies involved in the development of administrative applications using Java technology. The purpose of JA-SIG is, first, to share our experiences as we build applications with Java, and second, to develop a common infrastructure upon which we can build shareable components. We welcome the participation of both educational institutions and commercial enterprises in this effort. Please visit www.ja-sig.org for more information. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. |
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