{"id":38,"date":"2003-01-29T13:10:58","date_gmt":"2003-01-29T21:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2003\/01\/29\/whiteboard-possible-open-source-competitor-to-blackboard\/"},"modified":"2003-01-29T13:10:58","modified_gmt":"2003-01-29T21:10:58","slug":"whiteboard-possible-open-source-competitor-to-blackboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/01\/29\/whiteboard-possible-open-source-competitor-to-blackboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiteboard- possible Open Source Competitor to Blackboard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Quote:<\/i> &#8220;Whiteboard is a fully-featured and -integrated courseware system, targeted toward colleges and universities.&nbsp; It is written in PHP with a MySQL back-end, and is fully administrable through its web interface.&#8221; &#8211; source:&nbsp;[<a href=\"http:\/\/instructionaltechnology.editthispage.com\/\">Serious Instructional Technology<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Well, I will give this a proper look examination in due course through edutools, but I had a quick look based on this posting. On the surface it does look a bit like Blackboard. It&#8217;s not impossible that is in fact a lot like Blackboard &#8211; up until version 5 at least, Blackboard was definitely cobbled together and could have been produced through an open source process. My sense, though, is that it is fairly far along as a mature product with a more sophisticated code-based now, and I would be surprise if the resemblance here was more than superficial. &#8211; SWL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote: &#8220;Whiteboard is a fully-featured and -integrated courseware system, targeted toward colleges and universities.&nbsp; It is written in PHP with a MySQL back-end, and is fully administrable through its web interface.&#8221; &#8211; source:&nbsp;[Serious Instructional Technology] Well, I will give this a proper look examination in due course through edutools, but I had a quick look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/01\/29\/whiteboard-possible-open-source-competitor-to-blackboard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whiteboard- possible Open Source Competitor to Blackboard?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-management-systems","tag-cms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}