Blackboard customers should be interested in Vernon C. Smith's post.
An Off-line eLearning Solution—a client side application is downloaded to a laptop—so that a student or faculty can work offline with all the content of a Blackboard course.
The next release will be SCORM compliant AND will be able to be downloaded to a Flash (USB) drive. At this point, the computer would still need have the Backpack client on it—but in the future—it may be a web-based solution so that a student could use it at a library or other public computing commons.