There’s been some buzz on Twitter this week about Google’s May 19 announcement of CloudCourse, an “enterprise application in the cloud” that looks like Google’s first step into the learning management system market.
CloudCourse an open source piece of software that offers calendaring (integrated with Google Calendar), waitlist management and approval features – so at this point it seems like the primary focus is on course scheduling. It’s unclear whether CloudCourse will or could evolve into a competitor for Blackboard.
