Author Archives: Michael Feldstein

Check Out smARThistory

By Michael Feldstein | October 26, 2008

Just want to give a quick shoutout to my friends Steven Zucker and Beth Harris for their beautiful work on the newly redesigned smARThistory web site. When I think about Open Educational Resources, this is the sort of thing that I want to see. The site is clean and well-organized with an extremely high signal-to-noise [...]

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Going to EDUCAUSE

By Michael Feldstein |

I’ll be leaving for EDUCAUSE tomorrow morning and will be there until Friday morning. I’m not giving any presentations this year other than a 15-minute presentation on Oracle SAIP at the Desire2Learn booth, but I have lots of meetings and typical goings on. If you’re going to be in Orlando this week and want to [...]

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Bizarre Chapter in Blackboard, Inc. v Desire2Learn

By Michael Feldstein |

There’s a really…um…weird story posted up on D2L’s patent blog about how the court allowed Blackboard to send somebody to poke around D2L’s conference. D2L knew about it, but it was supposed to be kept secret from the conference attendees.
Very strange.

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Letting Facebook Be Facebook

By Michael Feldstein | October 19, 2008

My colleague Linda Feng pointed me to an interesting article about a study by the University of Liecester about how students are using Facebook and how it impacts their lives at the university. Two critical points come out of this for me. On the one hand, social networking in and of itself does seem to [...]

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Thomson Suing Zotero: More Info and More Thoughts

By Michael Feldstein | October 5, 2008

Stephen Downes and Scott Leslie have both expressed concern that my original post regarding the Zotero lawsuit was possibly too charitable toward Thomson Reuters. Sadly, as more information comes in, it’s beginning to look like they were right.

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