First of all, thanks to Arthur Loughran for his detailed info about the Bb
discussion group.
Secondly: The days of free course hosting are over. (see copied posting
below). Not totally unexpected of course - free course sites with no strings
attached and no intrusive advertising - a bit too good to be true. But $295
rental per year!!!! This is not in keeping with the spirit of Christmas!!!!
My lovingly created 'Introduction to Teaching & Learning in a VLE' self-
paced, interactive, staff development module will be no more at the end of
February 2002. A cruel fate! Is there a compassionate institution out there
who would make room on their Bb server until such time when my
institution invests in a VLE? ;-)
Elisabeth
The information below was put up over the weekend on the notice boards of
all courses at http://coursesites.blackboard.com
"In order to improve service on Coursesites.blackboard.com, at the
beginning of January 2002 Blackboard will introduce two important
changes:
Course registration on Coursesites. Register a course Web site for $295
and receive:
Unlimiteduse of a course Web site for one year
25 MB of storage space for course materials
Technicalsupport for the course instructor
An online transaction form for registering courses will be available on
Coursesites in January.
Non-registered courses will expire after 60 days. Courses that are not
registered within 60 days after the date they were created will expire and
become unavailable to students. Instructors will still be able to enter an
expired course to retrieve course materials or to export the course for use
on another system. For those courses that are already on the system at
the beginning of 2002, the 60 days will start on January 1, 2002."
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Elisabeth Coughlin
Teaching & Learning Research
Room D001
University of Luton, LU1 3JU
Tel: 01582-734111 Ext: 2053
Fax: 01582-743400
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