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WebCT
(詳細はBlackboard, is an online proprietary virtual learning environment system that is licensed to colleges and other institutions and used in many campuses for e-learning. To their WebCT courses, instructors can add such tools as discussion boards, mail systems, and live chat, along with content including documents and web pages. The latest versions of this software are now called Webcourses. WebCT is significant in that it was the world's first widely successful course management system for higher education. At its height, it was in use by over 10 million students in 80 countries.〔
==Background==
WebCT was originally developed at the University of British Columbia by a faculty member in computer science, Murray Goldberg. Goldberg is also the creator of Silicon Chalk (sold to Wimba〔(Horizon Wimba Acquires Silicon Chalk )〕 ((website) )) and Brainify ((website) ) an academic social bookmarking and networking site. In 1995, Goldberg began looking at the application of web-based systems to education.〔(UBC Computer Scientist Wins $100,000 Award for Popular Course Software, University of British Columbia News & Events, September 29, 2004 )〕 His research showed that student satisfaction and academic performance could be improved through the use of a web-based educational resource, or web-based course tools (from which the name WebCT is derived). In order to continue his research, he decided to build a system to ease the creation of web-based learning environments. This led to the first version of WebCT in early 1996, first presented at the 5th international World Wide Web conference in Paris during the spring of 1996.
In 1997, Goldberg created a company, WebCT Educational Technologies Corporation, a spinoff company of UBC.〔 Goldberg grew the company until 1999, at which point it served approximately 2-3 million students in 30 countries. In mid-1999, WebCT was acquired by ULT (Universal Learning Technology),〔〔(Universal Learning Technology Acquires WebCT, Business Wire, May 17, 1999 )〕 a Boston-based company headed by Carol Vallone. Ms. Vallone continued to grow the company to the point where its product was used by over 10 million students in 80 countries.〔 Goldberg resigned from his position of Canadian president of WebCT in 2002. In February 2006, WebCT was acquired by rival Blackboard Inc.〔(Blackboard and WebCT Announce Agreement to Merge, Blackboard website, October 12, 2005 )〕 As part of the acquisition terms with Blackboard, the WebCT name will be phased out in favor of the Blackboard brand. The majority of WebCT users moved away from Blackboard LMS. Many selected an open source LMS.〔http://listedtech.com/webct-and-how-it-helped-open-source/〕
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