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Education After Blackboard (blackweb) and DOPA – A Conference
Posted on August 1st, 2006 7 commentswell…
In the span of a couple of weeks the educational landscape we’ve all come to know and care about has taken an awful beating. It seems that DOPA is taking away our open ed-web and blackweb is taking away our walled gardens. For DOPA discussions check out will richardson and for blackweb Harold Jarche and the post on the moodle forums (sign in required… but if you’re not signed up, sign up now, the more the merrier) The important thing to draw from that discussion is that Blackweb has already filed for patent infringement (desire2learn).
So here’s the thing. Individually we’re just a bunch of bloggers/educators/interested folks looking at a bunch of rapid fire legislation and going… wait. you can’t do this. What we really need is some kind of united response… we need to react in a way that is focused. We need to gather the experience and intelligence of the community and decide what needs to be done.
In the interests of this I suggest two things.
- Continue going over to weblogg-ed and posting about what you think we all need to do.
- Come to our planning conference this weekend at edtechtalk.com. 8pm EDT on Sunday.
During our conference we’re going to discuss the three issues.
- First, we’re going to want to understand exactly what the issues are
- Second, we’re going to want to talk about what we can do to oppose these two legal thingies (if necessary)
- Third, where do we go if we lose both. What happens to e-learning?
Everyone is invited. We’re gonna contact blackboard. We’ll contact moodle, desire2learn, and anyone else who wants a voice on the subject. Come out and make your voices heard.
cheers. dave.
7 responses to “Education After Blackboard (blackweb) and DOPA – A Conference”
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I will try to be there; if I can re-arrange some family commitments.
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As will I Dave. I’ve missed EdTechTalk!
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[...] Dave Cormier had a great post and it sounds as if EdTechTalk will be developing a conversation around this very subject as well as the impact of DOPA this Sunday, August 6th at 8 pm EDT. [...]
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“I’m proposing we set up an online group that will help coordinate countermeasures against Blackboard’s patents, and coordinate support for any organisation against whom Blackboard attempts legal action.â€
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al harris August 3rd, 2006 at 10:25
As an easy gesture for del.icio.us users to note prior art may I suggest using the tag ” vle/prior-art ” perhaps following it with a date tag “19** ” Items thus tagged may be tracked and found by everyone.
Al
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iThinkMedia Blog: Living, Learning, and Working in the Information Age » Finally Some Outrage on The BlackBoard Patent August 3rd, 2006 at 20:09
[...] http://davecormier.com/edblog/?p=66 [...]
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[...] “To say that the reaction was negative would be to understate the matter considerably. Donald Clark writes, “I’d start selling Blackboard stock NOW!” Leonard Low writes, “Blackboard’s claim of patent is both outrageous and repugnant.” Dave Cormier writes, “In the span of a couple of weeks the educational landscape we’ve all come to know and care about has taken an awful beating. It seems that DOPA is taking away our open ed-web and [Blackboard] is taking away our walled gardens.” John P. Mayer writes, “How can you access the ‘full power of the Internet’ [as Blackboard says] if you are dealing with litigation fears and limitations of choice as a result?” Wesley Fryer exclaims “Crazy!” and asks, “Were the people in the US Patent Office really thinking clearly when they have this supposed ‘patent’ to Blackboard?”  [...]
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