{"id":896,"date":"2006-08-01T22:25:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T22:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/blackboard-to-rest-of-online-learning-world-we-ain-t-playin\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:05:02","slug":"blackboard-to-rest-of-online-learning-world-we-ain-t-playin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/blackboard-to-rest-of-online-learning-world-we-ain-t-playin\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard to Rest of Online Learning World:  We ain&#8217;t playin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With DOPA and net neutrality taking up so much space, I was almost going to let <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/company\/press\/release.aspx?id=887622\">this story<\/a> pass. I mean, Blackboard couldn&#39;t really try to enforce a patent related to such a nebulous concept as <span>technology<\/span> <span>relating to systems and methods involved in offering <span>online<\/span> education<\/span>, could they?  Well, they did &#8211; as seen in this copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/images\/articles\/blackboard.pdf\">Blackboard&#39;s suit against rival Desire2Learn<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/default.aspx?article=33396\">linked from an article about the suit in the Inquirer.net<\/a>.\u00a0 And at warp speed.  While the <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;d=PALL&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;s1=6,988,138.PN.&amp;OS=PN\/6,988,138&amp;RS=PN\/6,988,138\">patent<\/a> was issued back in January, the patent announcement and suit filing date in TX are one in the same &#8211; see, told you they ain&#39;t <span>playin<\/span>&#39;.  I guess the biggest question now is &#8211; &quot;Who&#39;s next?&quot;  Sakai? <span>Moodle<\/span>? <br \/> <!-- technorati tags begin --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; text-align: right\">technorati tags:<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Blackboard\">Blackboard<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/LMS\">LMS<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Desire2Learn\">Desire2Learn<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Patent\">Patent<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 8px\">Blogged with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\" target=\"_new\" title=\"Flock\">Flock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With DOPA and net neutrality taking up so much space, I was almost going to let this story pass. I mean, Blackboard couldn&#39;t really try to enforce a patent related to such a nebulous concept as technology relating to systems and methods involved in offering online education, could they? Well, they did &#8211; as seen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,200,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-lms","category-online-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}