Tag Archives: EDUCAUSE

The Blackboard Patent Pledge

By Michael Feldstein | February 2, 2007

I’m late to the party on the pledge news for a variety of reasons (not the least of which is a recalcitrant DNS server out there in the ether that denied me access to my new blog site for the better part of the last two days…grr). It is gratifying to see that my absence [...]

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The EDUCAUSE Letter to Blackboard is Now Public

By Michael Feldstein | October 27, 2006

Insider Higher Ed has let us know that the EDUCAUSE board has published its letter to Blackboard. This is such a remarkable (and courageous) letter that I feel compelled to reproduce it below in its entirety:

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Conversations with Desire2Learn and Blackboard

By Michael Feldstein | October 19, 2006

While at EDUCAUSE, I had opportunities to sit down with both Blackboard’s General Counsel Matthew Small and the Desire2Learn executive team. In the spirit of diplomacy, everything in this post has been reviewed by both sides, and there are aspects of our conversations that will remain private.
In my conversation with Matt Small, we spent a [...]

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Quick Blackboard Updates

By Michael Feldstein |

Between multiple family visits and a case of the flu that’s had my flat on my back the last couple of days, I’ve fallen even further behind on my backlog of posts than I was upon returning from EDUCAUSE. In the interest of catching up, this post will be short. First, several bloggers have already [...]

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So You’ve Captured Baghdad. Now What?

By Michael Feldstein | October 14, 2006

Somebody asked me what I thought the theme of this year’s EDUCAUSE turned out to be. My answer was “Blackboard.” I did not attend a single session in which somebody did not make a derisive comment or joke about it. In many cases, (including the Common Cartridge session and my own session on OpenBRR), it [...]

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