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  2. Blackboard Learn - Wikipedia

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    Blackboard Learn (previously the Blackboard Learning Management System) is a web-based virtual learning environment and learning management system developed by Blackboard Inc. The software features course management, customizable open architecture, and scalable design that allows integration with student information systems and authentication ...

  3. History of virtual learning environments - Wikipedia

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    A Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is a system specifically designed to facilitate the management of educational courses by teachers for their students. It predominantly relies on computer hardware and software, enabling distance learning. In North America, this concept is commonly denoted as a "Learning Management System" (LMS).

  4. History of virtual learning environments in the 1990s - Wikipedia

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    The VIRTUS project at University of Cologne, Germany, has started the development of the web-based ILIAS learning management system in 1997. A first version with an integrated web-based authoring environment has been going online at 2 November 1998. In 2000 ILIAS became open source software under the GPL.

  5. University of Reading - Wikipedia

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    The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading , a University of Oxford extension college. [ 7 ] The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 1926 by royal charter from King George V and was the only university to receive such a ...

  6. Blackboard system - Wikipedia

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    A blackboard system is the central space in a multi-agent system. It's used for describing the world as a communication platform for agents. To realize a blackboard in a computer program, a machine readable notation is needed in which facts can be stored. One attempt in doing so is a SQL database, another option is the Learnable Task Modeling ...

  7. Blackboard - Wikipedia

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    Uses. Reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made. A blackboard or a chalkboard is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of calcium sulphate or calcium carbonate, known, when used for this purpose, as chalk. Blackboards were originally made of smooth, thin sheets of black or dark grey slate stone.

  8. Alvernia University - Wikipedia

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    Alvernia University. Latin: Doceat Christus vos facere. Alvernia University is a private Franciscan university in Reading, Pennsylvania. Founded as Alvernia College in 1958 by the Bernardine Sisters of St. Francis, the school gained university status in 2008.

  9. Blackboard Inc. - Wikipedia

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    A Blackboard Transact card payment device affixed to a university vending machine. Blackboard Transact, formerly Blackboard Commerce Suite, [73] [74] is transaction processing system tied to university ID cards, which can be used for meal plans, vending machines and laundry services, and an e-commerce front end for the transaction system. [89]