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Downes, Stephen – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2007
When Blackboard unveiled its U.S. patent for 44 features of learning management systems and then filed a patent infringement suit against Design2Learn, the response of the educational technology community was negative and swift. Stephen Downes discusses why many educators oppose Blackboard's proprietary claims to technologies long considered in…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Management Systems, Intellectual Property, Educational Technology