Murray Goldberg

Murray began as a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at UBC in 1993 and was awarded tenure there in 1998.[2] In 1994, his first year as a faculty member at UBC, Goldberg won the Killiam Teaching Prize at UBC.[3] Goldberg took a leave of absence from UBC in 1998 to lead WebCT full-time.[4]

In 1995, as a UBC faculty member, Goldberg was researching the effectiveness of Web-Based learning environments.[5][6] Goldberg found that the experience of building the courses for this experimentation was sufficiently time consuming and expensive that he decided to create a platform to enable the simple and rapid creation of web-based learning environments,[7][8] WebCT. WebCT was widely accepted as a catalyst in the worldwide boom of on-line learning that accelerated beginning in 1997.[9] By November, 2000 WebCT was purportedly serving 6 million students in 57 countries,[9] and by late 2001, 10 million students in 80 countries at 2250 universities and colleges.[10] In 1999, Goldberg sold most of his stake in WebCT to Boston-Based Universal Learning Technology. The combined company took on the WebCT name.[8][11] Goldberg remained as president of the Canadian division of WebCT until 2002 when he left to co-found Silicon Chalk.

In 2002 Goldberg co-founded Silicon Chalk and served as the president and CEO.[12] Silicon Chalk created software for use in laptop or computer enabled higher education classrooms. The software facilitated the recording of classroom presentations, student note taking, polling, file sharing, and other features.[13] The company never achieved widespread success, though did have users in 70 universities and colleges when it was sold to Horizon Wimba[14]

In 2007 Goldberg began work on Brainify(website), an academic social bookmarking and networking site for university and college students and professors.[15] Brainify was launched in January 2009 and Goldberg acts as the President and CEO. Members from 250 institutions had joined within the first 20 days of its launch.[16]

In June, 2010, Goldberg launched AssociCom (website), a professional networking and discovery platform with an emphasis on enabling member discovery, learning and connection within professional associations and societies.[17]

Also in 2010, Murray founded the company Marine Learning Systems (website). Their product, MarineLMS, is a learning management system for training in the maritime industry, with BC Ferries as their first customer.[18]