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| Founded 📆 | March 1, 2022 in Wilmington, Delaware |
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Key people | Phill Miller (Director) |
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Open LMS, formerly known as Moodlerooms and Blackboard Open LMS, is an American educational technology company that provides learning management system solutions based on Moodle [1] . It is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. The current CEO of the company is Phill Miller, who in 2018 was Chief Learning and Innovation Officer at Blackboard Inc. The company is a provider of elearning solutions that makes use of open-source software for key activities including LMS support, training and consulting, managed hosting and integrations. In 2020, Open LMS was acquired by Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG) [2] , a public UK holding of several brands in education technology and talent management.
History
Moodlerooms
Moodlerooms was founded in the United States in 2005. It provided services based on Moodle including support and customization. It also offered Moodle in a Software as a Service model[3]. Moodlerooms became a Certified Moodle Partner, a designation that allowed it to claim the ability to provide services on behalf of Moodle, Pty Ltd in exchange for 10% of its revenues[4].
In 2012, Moodlerooms was acquired by technology company Blackboard for its open source software division[5]. Following the acquisition of another Moodle Partner from Australia, NetSpot, Moodlerooms became the largest financial contributor to Moodle [6] .
Moodlerooms later incorporated NetSpot in Australia[6], and Nivel Siete in Colombia[7]. The company reported 223 new deals in 2017 and approximately 120 in 2018[8].
Blackboard Open LMS
In 2018, the partnership between Moodle and Blackboard ended[9][10]. Moodlerooms changed its name to Blackboard Open LMS. While Blackboard Open LMS continued operating independently from the other Blackboard companies, some of the corporation’s tools remained available for the subsidiary’s users, including Blackboard Collaborate (virtual classroom), Ally (accessibility tool) and SafeAssign (online proctoring).
Open LMS
In March 2020, UK-based public company Learning Technologies Group plc purchased Blackboard Open LMS for $31.7 million, and changed its name to Open LMS[10][11]. Later that year, LTG finalized the acquisition of eCreators in Australia for £3.1 million[12], and then eThink Education in North America for $20 million[13]. Moodle and LTG ended all active partnerships between companies[10][14].
Products and services
Open LMS provides the following Moodle-based LMSs: Open LMS EDU, which is focused on higher education; and Open LMS WORK which is focused on companies. It also provides services related to Totara, an open-source learning management system aimed at corporate clients.
Open LMS maintains several plugins for Moodle, many of them available as free and open-source software[15].
In 2022, Open LMS announced a partnership with Class, a virtual classroom technology that acquired Blackboard Collaborate[16].
References
- ↑ "openlms.net". openlms.net. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
- ↑ https://www.ltgplc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/LTG_Annual_Report_2020_Digital-1.pdf#page=13
- ↑ "Open LMS Status Update: Managing Director Phillip Miller On Elearning Leadership Today | LMSPulse". www.lmspulse.com. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
- ↑ "Video Interview: Phill Miller and Martin Dougiamas discuss the Blackboard/Moodle Partnership | LMSPulse". www.lmspulse.com. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
- ↑ "Blackboard buys Moodlerooms, creates open-source division". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Blackboard acquires LMS competitors Moodlerooms, NetSpot - EdSurge News". EdSurge. 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
- ↑ S.A.S, Editorial La República. "Blackboard adquirió a Nivel Siete". Diario La República (in español). Retrieved 2022-08-31.
- ↑ Hill, Phil (2019-02-26). "Blackboard Updates: Learn SaaS progress and LMS market news". e-Literate. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
- ↑ "Moodle ends partnership with Blackboard". Moodle. 2018-07-27. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Hill, Phil (2021-03-12). "Moodle's Dispute with LTG and its Growing Suite of Former Moodle Partners". PhilOnEdTech. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
- ↑ "Proposed Acquisition of Open LMS". 2020-03-10. Retrieved 2022-08-31. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Acquisition of eCreators". 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2022-08-31. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Acquisition of eThink Education for up to $36m – Company Announcement - FT.com". markets.ft.com. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
- ↑ Babcock, Stephen (2018-08-22). "How the end of the Moodle-Blackboard partnership affects Baltimore edtech". Technical.ly. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
- ↑ "Moodle plugins directory. Contributor: Open LMS Development". Moodle Plugins Directory. Retrieved 2022-08-30. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Kelly, Rhea (06/08/22). "Class Technologies Partners with Open LMS -". Campus Technology. Retrieved 2022-09-01. Check date values in:
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