According to the latest entry on D2L’s patent blog, D2L has payed the court judgment plus post-judgment interest in full and has also migrated all customers to version 8.3 of their software, which they claim does not infringe on the patent. There’s been some FUD flying around about whether D2L could handle the financial impact […]
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D2L Resolves Current Patent Burdens
Published by June 12th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsBad News for Blackboard, Good News for Moodle
Published by March 23rd, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Open Source, Open Content, Open Access and Notable Posts. 8 CommentsThe American Association of Community College’s Instructional Technology Council (ITC) has just published its 2007 Distance Education Survey Results, covering data from 154 U.S. community colleges. And there’s a lot of interesting stuff in it. Here are the headlines that I drew from it:
Distance education continues to grow at a very healthy clip, particularly in […]
Blackboard Inc. v. Desire2Learn Inc.: “Grey” Monday March 10, 2008
Published by March 7th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsYesterday, Desire2Learn submitted its response to Blackboard’s request for injunction (which was apparently submitted under seal) and accompanying letters from various school and university officials arguing that preventing D2L from selling their product in the United States would be against the public interest. Barry Dahl has done a terrific job of summing up the case […]
Some Court Documents
Published by March 2nd, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 3 CommentsWell, it’s later than we expected, but we did finally get a copy of the jury questionnaire as well as Blackboard’s motion for prejudgment interest. (Both of these were provided by instructional media + magic and acquired from public sources.) And there are a few interesting details.
Update: At the request of Blackboard’s legal counsel, we […]
Should Universities Patent Their Research? Universities Say Yes. But should they?
Published by August 26th, 2007 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Digital Democracy and Notable Posts. 5 CommentsThis is a guest blog post by Jim Farmer, Coordinator, Scholarly Systems Group at Georgetown University and editor at the eReSS project, University of Hull.
At the December 2006 Sakai Conference in Atlanta many expressed the view that patents inhibit collaboration and innovation in teaching and learning. But that was not the view expressed by higher […]
