Blackboard has posted their response to the USPTO ruling. They make some claims about how this will impact the trial, which I’m not in a position to evaluate just yet. They mention that all of the claims in the re-examination request “were unsuccessfully raised by Desire2Learn during recent litigation,” which is irrelevant since these are […]
Archive for March, 2008
Blackboard Fails Statistics 101
Published by March 29th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 1 CommentAll 44 Blackboard Patent Claims Invalidated by USPTO
Published by March 28th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 21 CommentsThis just in:
On March 25, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued its Non-Final Action on the re-examination of the Blackboard Patent. We are studying the document, found here, but in short, the PTO has rejected all 44 of Blackboard’s claims. We caution that this is a NON-final action; both Blackboard and Desire2Learn will have […]
Mashing Up the LMS the Google Way
Published by March 24th, 2008 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Open Source, Open Content, Open Access, Notable Posts and LMOS. 0 CommentsI have mentioned before Cambridge’s My Sakai project which, writ large, can be seen as an attempt to make Sakai more compatible with Web 2.0 by supporting development of widgets, gadgets, Facebook applications, and so on. Well, they’ve made some substantial progress of late, inspired in part by the Apache Shindig implementation of Google’s OpenSocial […]
Comment Troubles
Published by March 23rd, 2008 in About This Site and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 1 CommentI’m getting occasional reports from people that they’re getting error messages when they try to submit comments hereon e-Literate. (Something about headers.) Rest assured that, despite whatever the error message is telling you, your comment is getting into my blog and trapped by my spam filter. I check that filter daily and will release your […]
Bad News for Blackboard, Good News for Moodle
Published by March 23rd, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Open Source, Open Content, Open Access and Notable Posts. 7 CommentsThe American Association of Community College’s Instructional Technology Council (ITC) has just published its 2007 Distance Education Survey Results, covering data from 154 U.S. community colleges. And there’s a lot of interesting stuff in it. Here are the headlines that I drew from it:
Distance education continues to grow at a very healthy clip, particularly in […]
