Blackboard has only 14 adopters??? Aaargh...that report must be outdated!
Blackboard has swept The Netherlands under its feet litterally storming into
every university in this country. And, I just think it's stupid to see how
all these universities blindly shell out money to pay for a solution that is
not worth the price (as compared to .LRN). Netherlands alone has over 14 installations
for sure, starting at the top from Groningen to the tip in Maastricht.
- Universiteit van Amsterdam (http://blackboard.ic.uva.nl/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp)
- Vrije
Universiteit in Amsterdam(http://blackboard.vu.nl)
- Delft University of Technology
(http://www.icto.tudelft.nl)
- University of Groningen(http://nestor.rug.nl)
- Universiteit Leiden (http://blackboard.leidenuniv.nl) I
use it at my faculty, and I can tell you, it is a rip-off
for a primitive application !!
- Tilburg
university (http://dlo.uvt.nl:8080) previously called Katholieke Universiteit
Brabant
- Universiteit Maastricht (https://blackboard.unimaas.nl)
- Katholieke Universiteit
Nijmegen (http://brightsite.uci.kun.nl)
- Erasmus Universiteit (http://www.eur.edu)
- Universiteit Utrecht (studion.fss.uu.nl)
- Katholieke Theologische Universiteit
te Utrecht (http://blackboard.ktu.nl)
- Wageningen University. (http://blackboard.wau.nl)
- Open Universiteit (not sure of the Web address)
I am not adding in the Hogeschools (technical schools that offer education
that is now equivalent to a Bachelors under the Dutch BaMA system). For, they
in Leiden, Groningen etc.,
In Belgium you can already see BB implementations in
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (http://bb.kuleuven.ac.be)
- Universiteit Limburg (http://bb.luc.ac.be)
And, from what I have noticed in my faculty (information sciences btw)...no
one cares about looking at good and cost-effective solutions for the university.
No one's bothered actually. All are in their own little worlds, teaching jobs
and research
projects. Or maybe I am wrong again. I wish I am. I would really like to meet
anyone in any of these universities who could use any help, and work together
to help Dutch universities and
well, the Dutch government invest their valuable money into good education
rather than on licenses of expensive software solutions, especially when there
are better alternatives in place.