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Blackboard Customers Consider Alternatives
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Title:Blackboard Customers Consider Alternatives (ID: CSD5501)
Author(s):Jeffrey R. Young (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (09/09/2008)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

Open-source software for course management poses market challenge.

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http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i03/03a00103.htm[Off site]
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Traversing the LMS terrain
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Title:Traversing the LMS terrain (ID: CSD5336)
Author(s):Kelly Wainwright (Lewis & Clark College), Michael Osterman (Whitman College), Christina M. Finneran (Bowdoin College), and Bill Hill (Seattle University)
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (10/15/2007)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

With the emergence of strong open source contenders in the Learning Management System (LMS) arena, many schools are evaluating whether to stay with one of the commercial LMS products such as Blackboard/WebCT or moving to one of the open source solutions which are free to use, but offer no corporate support. There are many factors contributing to such a decision beyond price including migration from a current LMS, technical and faculty support and buy in. In the end, it is a decision that an institution needs to be well informed to make.

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http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1294046.1294130[Off site]
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Blackboard Patent Claim Rejected? [Update: Re-examined, Not Rejected]
Created by Catherine Howell (University of Cambridge) on January 25, 2007
...Or so says the grapevine. I've just heard via John Norman, Director of CARET and Chair of the Sakai Board, that the patent claim filed by Blackboard (#6,988,138: Alcorn et al, Internet-based education support system and methods) has been rejected by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

[Update 26/01/07: Apologies to John, who I've misquoted here. He confirms the patent has not been rejected, but the USPTO has accepted the SFLC request for a reexam. See my subsequent post for further details].
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