I’m leaving tomorrow for the Oracle Higher Education Users’ Group Conference and will be gone most of the week. Anybody who will be there and wants to chat can find me in the audience at either of the SAIP presentations or at the Oracle booth on Tuesday from 2-3 PM. As for the blog, I’ll [...]
Al Essa informs us that there is a new edupatent suit by a new player. The critical difference here is that this time universities are being sued. At the moment, the company asserting the patent has confined itself to suing for-profit universities (University of Phoenix, Inc, The Apollo Group, Inc., Capella Education Company, Laureate Education, [...]
Barry Dahl has posted some comments from John Baker regarding whether the possible backlash against Blackboard for the suit will have universities tar all LMS vendors with the same brush and move to open source instead. John made two points in response. First, John expressed faith in the educational community (based on feedback that D2L [...]
Yesterday, Desire2Learn submitted its response to Blackboard’s request for injunction (which was apparently submitted under seal) and accompanying letters from various school and university officials arguing that preventing D2L from selling their product in the United States would be against the public interest. Barry Dahl has done a terrific job of summing up the case [...]
I’ve been slow to catch these because I’m really heads-down with work this week. (That will continue next week as well, since I’ll be at Oracle’s big higher education conference for most of the week.) Al Essa has his latest analysis of how broad he believes Blackboard’s patent is. It’s a timely review for those [...]
