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This weblog focuses on locating, evaluating, discussing, and providing guidelines to instructional resources for faculty and students in higher education. The emphasis is on free, shared, HE resources. Related topics and news (about commercial resources, K-12 resources, T&D resources, educational technology, digital libraries, distance learning, open source software, metadata standards, cognitive mapping, etc.) will also be discussed--along with occasional excursions into more distant miscellaneous topics in science, computing, and education. The EduResources Weblog operates in conjunction with a broader weblog called The Open Learner about using open knowledge resources across a diversity of subjects, levels, and interests for a wide range of learners and learning communities--students in schools and colleges, home schoolers, hobbyists, vocational learners, retirees, and others.
        

Monday, August 21, 2006

This article from the Technology section of the online BBC News is by Michael Geist, the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law.  The author provides a useful overview of the current Blackboard patent controversy with links to more information resources. _____JH

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"The patent system is designed to foster innovation by providing patent holders with exclusive rights over their inventions for a limited time.  However, the Blackboard patent and Desire2Learn lawsuit is the latest example of how a system that easily grants over-broad patents arguably could be used to impede innovation and limit marketplace competition. It is a tale that the technology community knows all too well. "


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