As many faculty are already aware, there is a Blackboard Mobile Learn app available for iOS and Android devices. That isn’t news, as the app has existed for a couple years now. What is news relates to a change in the way that app is licensed. Previously the app was usable only by certain devices using certain connections, in a fashion that was confusing to explain. Unless, of course, the institution you were attending actually purchased a license, in which case everything just plain worked. That last is still true, that the institution can purchase a license to use the Mobile Learn app…...

On Monday of this week Blackboard released Blackboard Mobile Learn via a Mobile Web Services Building Block.  “…it enables your Blackboard Learn implementation to power mobile learning on a variety of devices at no cost – the Wi-Fi Apple® iPadTM (available now), iPhone® and iPod touch® via Wi-Fi  (June), and through a special partnership with Sprint, Android and BlackBerry® devices on the Sprint network as well (June).”  Watch this demo of Bb Mobile Learn on the iPad to get the idea (don’t worry about the gestures and windows management on the iPad): Now very few of our...