Monthly Archives: July 2008

Victory for D2L, Opportunity for Blackboard

By Michael Feldstein | July 22, 2008

Well, my flight was delayed, so I missed the opportunity to witness D2L’s court victory celebration at Graceland. And I’m sure that they celebrated tonight The court denied Blackboard’s motion for contempt, meaning that Desire2Learn version 8.3 was found to be “more than colorably different” than the infringing version of the software and the court [...]

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The ‘On the Horizon’ Series Is Complete

By Michael Feldstein | July 20, 2008

With Jim Farmer’s post, we have completed the series. I want to thank both the authors and the readers who have commented on this post. I’m hopeful that this process has shaped the final product, which will be a journal issue published some time early next year. We hope to have the contents of that [...]

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Distributed Learning is Here: Ask Any College Student

By Jim Farmer |

This is a guest post by Jim Farmer for a special issue on distributed learning environments for On the Horizon. Jim is Coordinator, Scholarly Systems Group at Georgetown University and editor at the eReSS project, University of Hull.

This fall more than 17 million students will be using publisher-provided online services. More than 5 million students [...]

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Going to the D2L Conference

By Michael Feldstein | July 18, 2008

Correction: My presentation with Bill Lee is on Wednesday, not Thursday.

I’ll be going to the Desire2Learn conference Monday night through Wednesday morning this coming week. I’ll be on a lunch panel on Tuesday (I finally will meet Stephen Downes F2F) and will be doing a presentation on IMS Learning Information Services and Oracle/D2L integration with [...]

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Connecting Blackboard to Sakai and Moodle

By Michael Feldstein |

I didn’t intend to post about this, but people keep asking me what I think, so I guess I need to get something up. For starters, you should read Michael Korcuska’s post on the subject. I agree with everything he says. Beyond that, here’s what I think:

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