District-based Blackboard helped launch the education-technology industry in the mid-1990s. By the early 2000s, its software connected students and professors with textbooks, course materials and each ...

Blackboard’s patent for e-learning software, which academic critics say is overly broad and likely to stymie innovation in classroom technology, is facing a challenge to its validity. The Software ...

Blackboard has launched Blackboard Classroom, a cloud-based digital learning environment for K–12 built around the company's learning management system. Blackboard described Classroom as "a ...

Blackboard Learn has added professional profiles for students in an effort to help connect them with job and internship opportunities. The Enhanced Cloud Profile allows students to share information ...

LAS VEGAS -- After a year watching the hype over massive open online courses and keeping its distance, Blackboard said Wednesday it would join in. The company, which is by far the largest provider of ...

“What students carry from classrooms is rarely written on the blackboard.” Years after leaving school, students rarely remember the exact chapters they studied or the formulas they once memorised with ...