Sean Fitzgerald alert through Twitter:
Blackboard wins in patent fight against Desire2Learn.
I loath the use of Learning Management Systems generally, but I triple loath an over priced, crappy, monopolising, proprietary LMS like Blackboard.
If your institution uses Blackboard, do your teaching and students a favor and learn how to teach and learn without it!
Die LMS die is even more true now that Blackboard owns the concept of LMS.
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February 24, 2008 at 5:44 am
Desire2Learn loses Blackboard patent case by ClintLalonde.net
[…] Now, I’m no lawyer. And even though I have been following this case with interest partly because we are a D2L institution, I don’t know all the intricacies of the patent claim beyond the what I have read at places like No Education Patents, the D2L patent blog and various blog postings. But in my mind, this really stinks, and I am not alone in this sentiment. […]
February 24, 2008 at 8:58 am
dave
[huge and massive shrug] BB suits me fine and suits me better than the other things I’ve tried. Forgive me for not giving a smelly soft brown thing.
If you want me to WANT to move then meet my needs.
February 24, 2008 at 5:51 pm
leighblackall
I wonder about your needs sometimes Dave…
February 26, 2008 at 12:22 am
alexanderhayes
Moodle ?
🙂
February 26, 2008 at 12:26 am
alexanderhayes
> 2.3 Data Collection
The intention was to identify whether of not Moodle…..
Of ?
Who’s nose is too close to the hole to notice whats worth noticing ?
February 26, 2008 at 12:28 am
alexanderhayes
Table 3 Which did you prefer as an overall tool for learning?
RESPONSE TOTAL
RESPONSE PERCENT
MOODLE
8
80%
BLACKBOARD
2
20%
Uh huh.
March 1, 2008 at 8:12 am
Scott Leslie
After I heard the news I made the inflammatory comment on twitter that I was no longer going to speak with anyone from East Texas, anyone who worked for Blackboard, or even anyone who was a Blackboard customer.
This last one got some push back, but in truth, if you are a current customer and you are NOT currently trying to figure out a way to NOT be one, then really, I’m not that interested in talking to you anymore.
Whether it be from the perspectives of costliness, closed-source-ness, antagonism to innovation, lack of efficacy or lack-of-a-clue for the model of networked learning, the writing has been on the wall for too long now, evident in too many papers, blog posts and conference presentations to simple argue that “everything’s fine here folks, here’s another bucketfull of licensing dollars to support this bankrupt vision of learning.” How’s dat for inflammatory. Boycott indeed.