I have watched the good people at Xplana wrestle with Blackboard's student support function all week. After the software error was fixed, they finally got into the area - only to recoil in horror at the flood of advertising that flowed forth. What's interesting - and I'm glad the author catches this - is that Blackboard's commercial display seems to operate independently of any college or university policy on the subject. "Given that SIN, OU's Sooner Information Network student portal, was just raked over the coals in the April 25 2003 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education for having advertising on its site, I am surprised that the Chronicle did not say anything about all the advertising on university Blackboard sites." Of course, notes the author, "Luckily for us, though, I doubt that any OU student has ever ventured this far into the bowels of Blackboard."
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