Author Archives: Michael Feldstein

Desire2Learn Conference Summary

I had fun at the D2L conference last week. As usual, I don’t have as much time as I would like to blog about the details, so this highlight post will have to do:

Conference attendance was good. There were about 550 attendees this year, up from about 400 last year.
I had chance to get a [...]

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Victory for D2L, Opportunity for Blackboard

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

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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Going to the D2L Conference

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

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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