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Blackboard to Sell Remedial Courses
Blackboard, Inc., the web-based course management system, announced on October 13, 2010 a partnership with for-profit education provider K12, Inc. to sell online courses to colleges that wish to outsource their remedial classes.
A popular e-learning tool which students can access right from their computers, Blackboard gives instructors the ability to provide students with the course syllabus and other handouts. Additionally, students can participate in chat rooms, post on message boards, take online quizzes, and more. The software is used by hundreds of colleges across the country.
Blackboard to Begin Selling Remedial Courses
Blackboard now wants to take things a step further by selling online courses designed and taught by employees of K12. A new way for students lacking basic skills to play catch-up, the courses will be delivered via the Blackboard course-management system.
It will be the first time that the company has sold entire courses as opposed to the software which delivers them.
Blackboard officials say they are in the earliest stages of designing the actual product; details of what courses will be offered have not yet been decided. Matthew Small, Blackboard
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