{"id":901,"date":"2006-08-07T02:19:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T02:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/blackboard-patent-and-dopa-on-edtechtalk-58\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:05:02","slug":"blackboard-patent-and-dopa-on-edtechtalk-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/blackboard-patent-and-dopa-on-edtechtalk-58\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard Patent and DOPA on EdTechTalk #58"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/edtechtalk.com\/EdTechTalk58\"> <span>EdTechTalk<\/span> <span>live webcast<\/span> #58 <\/a>on the Blackboard patent and DOPA issues just finished up and I encourage everyone to catch the recording once it is edited and uploaded.  The <span>shownotes<\/span> include a letter from BlackBoard CEO, Michael Chasin<span> submitted<\/span> in response to EdTechTalk&#39;s request for a representative to appear on the show.  <a href=\"http:\/\/moodle.org\/mod\/forum\/discuss.php?d=50597\">Martin <span>Dougiamas<\/span> (from <span>Moodle<\/span>)<\/a> joined the conversation to add his thoughts.  In addition, a representative from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desire2learn.com\/\">Desire2Learn <\/a>stopped by to reiterate the company&#39;s plans to aggressively fight the Blackboard patent suit.  <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\/patent\">patent<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/DOPA\">DOPA<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Desire2Learn\">Desire2Learn<\/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>The EdTechTalk live webcast #58 on the Blackboard patent and DOPA issues just finished up and I encourage everyone to catch the recording once it is edited and uploaded. The shownotes include a letter from BlackBoard CEO, Michael Chasin submitted in response to EdTechTalk&#39;s request for a representative to appear on the show. Martin Dougiamas&#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":[194,197,200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-dopa","category-lms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","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=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}