Course Management Software

Teaching Hacks has an article covering how to use RSS to give out homework assignments. The idea here is to build an RSS feed that allows you to send out to your students the homework. I am intrigued by this idea, but it does seem a bit tech heavy. For K-12 the effort might be …..

Michael Feldstein, the blogger I have come to rely on as my Blackboard Patent source has a write up on what you can do about Blackboards patent threat to higher education. Everyone in higher ed who reads this should take time to check out his posts on this issue and see what they can do.

When I talk to profs. who are not particular comfortable with technology, but who use WebCT or Blackboard, I ask them what it is they use these course management programs for. Most commmonly the response is that professors want is the ability to have their syllabus on line, and the ability to post assignments, and …..

Kairosnews has an article about the use of plagiarism detection software. Kairosnews and the related Cyberdash recommend against the use of these services. These two articles breakdown a host of reasons why using these services is a bad idea. For me the major concern here is this reflects a poor use of technology: technology to …..

In a similar strand to the post below here is a brief list of the things occuring in the world of education last week, with a particular focus on a series of disturbing and related issues threatening open education. First up, if you haven’t already, and are interested in blogging in the classroom check out …..

Using its newly minted patent Blackboard has filed a lawsuit against Desire2Learn in a further attempt to corner the market on elearning. I am not going to rehash all the complex details of this issue, for a good overview of the problem and the threat this poses for higher learning read Michael Feldstein’s blog. But …..

Academic Commons reports that the US Patent Office has awarded a patent to Blackboard, which is unfortunately broad. This can only be bad news for Academics as Blackboard continues to consolidate and monopolize the industry. Academic Commons:After purchasing and killing Prometheus in 2002 and WebCT last year (and many other companies, though not strictly speaking …..