From D2L’s patent blog: Since our last posting, we received word that the judge has decided not to rule on any summary judgment motions – he’s letting all issues go to trial. As a result, Desire2Learn’s legal folks – inside and outside counsel – have been working overtime preparing for trial. We’re going to trial […]
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Desire2Learn Competencies and Rubrics, Part III
Well, I should have learned by now not to promise in advance how many parts a series will have and when I will complete them. It seems that, as soon as I declare publicly what my blogging plans are, Brother Fate smacks me upside the head with his big, fat overcommitment stick. But apparently I’m […]
Desire2Learn Competencies and Rubrics, Part II
I’ve been a little surprised at the amount of attention–both positive and negative–that my first post in this series has received. I want to address some of the comments on the negative side. There seems to be some concern that systems like D2L’s might promote bureaucratic mandates that increase burdens on teachers, or that they […]
Desire2Learn Competencies and Rubrics: Part I
Anyone who has been awake in higher education in the last couple of years knows that there is a lot of attention on outcomes and assessment lately (although with distinctly different emphases in the U.S. and the E.U.). A natural consequence of this attention is that the various LMS platform developers are adding capabilities that […]
An Open Casket After All
Update: The intrepid Jim Farmer has also posted a copy of the D2L entry in the immagic eLibrary. As it turns out, one of your fellow e-Literate readers saved the D2L post and pasted it into the comments section of my last post. I love you guys.
Burying the Bodies
Following my last post regarding the nasty details of Blackboard’s behavior that came out during the discovery phase of the trial, we now see the following message up on the D2L blog: [Our Litigation Update post, originally posted here on October 24, has been temporarily removed, as late today we received a letter from Blackboard’s […]
Blackboard's Dirty Laundry Comes Out in Patent Trial
Desire2Learn has published some fairly tawdry details that have emerged during the discovery phase of the patent trial. (During discovery, both sides can demand to see relevant internal documents from the other side. Nasty confidential details can get exposed.) For one thing, Blackboard apparently sponsored a spy to go to the D2L user conference and […]