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August 14, 2006
Blackboard Patent reported in Toronto Star
The story "Shades of another Battle of Waterloo" by MICHAEL GEIST was published in the August 14, 2006 edition of the Toronto Star.
From the article:
"Moreover, educators have expressed concern that the patent will create confusion within the academic community, leading some institutions to drop better learning management systems alternatives due to the legal uncertainties.
Educators in the developing world are particularly uneasy, given that many rely on distance education and the delivery of electronic course materials as a primary, more cost-effective method of education.
The open-source software community has also reacted with alarm, since there are several ongoing open-source learning management systems projects that have gained increasing popularity in recent months.
These projects, which include Moodle and Sakai, are freely available and therefore represent a significant competitive threat to the proprietary learning management systems vendors such as Blackboard and Desire2Learn."
Posted by mlindema at 06:33 AM