This article is pretty good so far as it goes, but be aware that after a few pages you'll be hit with a dead stop, a link to a commercial service, and a come-on for subscription payment. Phil Hill makes two major points here. First, he notes that Anthology (the current owners of Blackboard) is streamlining and focusing much more directly on competing with Desire2Learn and Instructure. Second, he writes that the company has gone all-in on artificial intelligence, but that since AI is expensive, this creates sustainability issues. This is where (with reference to a paywalled Moody report) the article asks you to subscribe. But you don't need to. It would take a miracle, I think, to earn back the $1.3 billion borrowed to buy the company. Anthology has to be betting on some windfall profits.
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