Trend: A Patent Dilemma

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Stephen Downes

Provoking a furious reaction in the educational technology community, Blackboard, an enterprise learning management system provider, unveiled a U.S. patent for 44 features of learning management systems (LMS) on July 26, 2006 (cf. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 2006),... More »