{"id":503,"date":"2011-07-14T11:52:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T10:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orfeu.org\/2011\/07\/14\/george-siemens-on-blackboards-acqu"},"modified":"2011-07-14T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T10:52:04","slug":"george-siemens-on-blackboards-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/george-siemens-on-blackboards-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"George Siemens on Blackboard&#039;s acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Siemens on Blackboard&#39;s acquisition &#8211; &quot;What am I not seeing?&quot;<\/p>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att\">\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elearnspace.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/14\/what-am-i-not-seeing\/\" target=\"_blank\">elearnspace \u203a What am I not seeing?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-txt\">What am I not seeing? It&#39;s old news that Blackboard has been acquired by a private equity firm for $1.64 billion. An education company being acquired is hardly novel \u2013 we are entering a period of &#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-backlink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112390264067431209914\/posts\/9JXTR5s3GMg\" target=\"_blank\">This was posted on Google+&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Siemens on Blackboard&#39;s acquisition &#8211; &quot;What am I not seeing?&quot; elearnspace \u203a What am I not seeing? What am I not seeing? It&#39;s old news that Blackboard has been acquired by a private equity firm for $1.64 billion. An education company being acquired is hardly novel \u2013 we are entering a period of &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s-r","tag-blackboard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7w8s-87","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}