Tag Archives: edunomics

Three Tests for the ‘New’ Blackboard

By Michael Feldstein | Published: May 14, 2009
Today Blackboard announced that ANGEL’s Ray Henderson will be the new President of the Blackboard Learn division. This is great news. Ray is one of the best executives in educational technology today, known for his competence, his integrity, and his leadership in supporting open standards and openness in general. Does this mean a new beginning [...]
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Bad News for Blackboard, Good News for ANGEL

By Michael Feldstein | Published: April 25, 2009
This is another one I’ve been meaning to post for some time. Last year, I wrote a post called Bad News for Blackboard, Good News for Moodle that talked about changes in LMS market share among American community colleges according to a survey done by the Instructional Technology Council. The headline number was that Blackboard’s market [...]
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EduPatent Fight As Complicated As Ever

By Michael Feldstein | Published: April 22, 2009
As you might imagine, Blackboard and Desire2Learn have somewhat different interpretations of what the recent USPTO ruling means in the bigger picture. And there certainly is plenty of room for interpretation, given the complexity of the situation. There are now no less than three separate, parallel, but not entirely unrelated fronts in the legal war [...]
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Blackboard Patent Invalidated. Again.

By Michael Feldstein | Published: April 17, 2009
Update: Turns out I was incorrect about the relationship between the old patent and the new one. The ruling may (or may not) have some influence on the suit over the new patent, but it is not determinative. This is getting very complicated. I’ll try to get a post up about at least some of the [...]
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Blackboard’s Market Share Erosion

By Michael Feldstein | Published: March 31, 2009
Barry Dahl is asking the question, “Is Blackboard losing clients?” and has created a wiki for people to enter information on whether they are migrating to Blackboard, migrating from it, or re-evaluating their installation. In general, it would be great to see more visibility of information of this kind. I’d love to see a wiki [...]
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