blackboard.com — Learning Management System vendor Blackboard Inc has been granted a patent for ...well, just about anything resembling an online learning system or student-focused groupware solution. Coupled with Bb's acquisition of WebCT in 2005, this fuels concerns over Bb's dominance of the education market.
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earnestdotcomAug 2, 2006
Wow. That's great! Maybe McDonald's can patent the hamburger now too! Seriously though, I wonder what this will mean for all the open source course management systems out there, as well as the homegrown systems that some schools are putting together themselves.
mattclareAug 4, 2006
We need a re-submit when more legal info comes out about Bb suite against D2L.