Comments on: Is Blackboard Feeling the Heat Already? http://mfeldstein.com/is_blackboard_feeling_the_heat_already/ What Michael Feldstein Is Learning About Online Learning...Online Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:17:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Michael Feldstein http://mfeldstein.com/is_blackboard_feeling_the_heat_already/#comment-418 Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:22:33 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/is_blackboard_feeling_the_heat_already/#comment-418 That's a good point, Sam. Somebody should run the numbers. That’s a good point, Sam. Somebody should run the numbers.

]]> by: Sam O http://mfeldstein.com/is_blackboard_feeling_the_heat_already/#comment-417 Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:18:44 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/is_blackboard_feeling_the_heat_already/#comment-417 So, can we do a follow-up on <a href="http://mfeldstein.com/index.php/weblog/permalink/blackboard_by_the_numbers/">Blackboard by the Numbers</a> to re-compute the constituent costs of a Blackboard license? I don't see Blackboard having any problem clearing anti-trust scrutiny to finally buy D2L because of the competition from Sakai, Moodle, and the rest of the open source lot. But the purchase, through litigation expense and eventually cash, won't be cheap. While it will consolidate Blackboard's lead on the commercial side, it also sets up a sharp contrast, and I think, brings a strong advantage to the open source side in this increasingly bi-polar landscape. So, can we do a follow-up on Blackboard by the Numbers to re-compute the constituent costs of a Blackboard license?

I don’t see Blackboard having any problem clearing anti-trust scrutiny to finally buy D2L because of the competition from Sakai, Moodle, and the rest of the open source lot. But the purchase, through litigation expense and eventually cash, won’t be cheap. While it will consolidate Blackboard’s lead on the commercial side, it also sets up a sharp contrast, and I think, brings a strong advantage to the open source side in this increasingly bi-polar landscape.

]]> by: Dave Basener http://mfeldstein.com/is_blackboard_feeling_the_heat_already/#comment-409 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:59:38 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/is_blackboard_feeling_the_heat_already/#comment-409 I don't understand how these things can happen. Not only is this an obvious use of Web technology, an attribute which is supposed to quash any patent, but it has also been in use for some number of years by many companies and groups. I think I will patent A Method for Providing a Course to Remotely Located Recipients. This method uses Television Cameras at the source site. These are coupled air pressure modulation detectors (or Micophones) and Radio Transmitters. At the receiving site are located a set of Radio Receivers, ElectroMagneto activated air pressure modulators (we call them Speakers) and Televisions. The teacher, or Instructor, delivers the course material at the source site in view of the Television Cameras and in within range of the Microphones. Said course material is then transmitted via radio waves to the remote radio receivers where it is reconstituted into moving images and sound by that remote equipment. The remote attendees, or Students, then absorb the course material as though they were in the same room with the Instructor. Dave I don’t understand how these things can happen. Not only is this an obvious use of Web technology, an attribute which is supposed to quash any patent, but it has also been in use for some number of years by many companies and groups.

I think I will patent A Method for Providing a Course to Remotely Located Recipients. This method uses Television Cameras at the source site. These are coupled air pressure modulation detectors (or Micophones) and Radio Transmitters. At the receiving site are located a set of Radio Receivers, ElectroMagneto activated air pressure modulators (we call them Speakers) and Televisions. The teacher, or Instructor, delivers the course material at the source site in view of the Television Cameras and in within range of the Microphones. Said course material is then transmitted via radio waves to the remote radio receivers where it is reconstituted into moving images and sound by that remote equipment. The remote attendees, or Students, then absorb the course material as though they were in the same room with the Instructor.

Dave

]]> by: Finbar Dineen http://mfeldstein.com/is_blackboard_feeling_the_heat_already/#comment-405 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 05:12:25 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/is_blackboard_feeling_the_heat_already/#comment-405 The patent was filed in 1999. There is plenty, no I mean *plenty* of priot art that makes this claim to intellectual property indefensible. Blackboard have (as of 2 months ago) lauched an expansion campaign in the UK (no patent applies). I'm hoping the line on these sorts of patents is drawn and defended here. It has to happen somewhere and over some issue. Why not on education, knowledge and learning. After all the 'e-' was superfluous and obvious from the start. The patent was filed in 1999. There is plenty, no I mean *plenty* of priot art that makes this claim to intellectual property indefensible.

Blackboard have (as of 2 months ago) lauched an expansion campaign in the UK (no patent applies).

I’m hoping the line on these sorts of patents is drawn and defended here. It has to happen somewhere and over some issue. Why not on education, knowledge and learning. After all the ‘e-’ was superfluous and obvious from the start.

]]> by: disgusted http://mfeldstein.com/is_blackboard_feeling_the_heat_already/#comment-404 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:50:51 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/is_blackboard_feeling_the_heat_already/#comment-404 Someone posted some anti blackboard logos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/88137165@N00/ Someone posted some anti blackboard logos here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/88137165@N00/

]]> by: Bruce Lewin http://mfeldstein.com/is_blackboard_feeling_the_heat_already/#comment-403 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:59:14 +0000 http://mfeldstein.com/is_blackboard_feeling_the_heat_already/#comment-403 I wonder if they will blog on this one??? ;-) I wonder if they will blog on this one??? ;-)

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