[not] Seguimos con la serpiente del verano. Blackboard y las patentes. Del Businessweek : "Patent fight over online schooling"

Seguimos con la serpiente del verano. Blackboard y las patentes. Del Businessweek : «Patent fight over online schooling». Desde que el 28 de Julio referenciamos la noticia Blackboard patenta «los métodos y sistemas de apoyo» a la … ha llovido mucho en la red aquí tenéis un enlace a un artículo aparecido en el Businessweek online.

Y para completar otros dos enlaces a :Blackboard: A Good Investment? de Stephen’s web y a Blackboard E-Learning Patent de O’Reilly Radar

The Associated Press/
By JUSTIN POPE
AP Education Writer

AUG. 27 2:45 P.M. ET Every day, millions of students taking online college courses act in much the same way as their bricks-and-mortar counterparts. After logging on, they move from course to course and do things like submit work in virtual drop boxes and view posted grades — all from a program running on a PC.

It may seem self-evident that virtual classrooms should closely resemble real ones. But a major education software company contends it wasn’t always so obvious. And now, in a move that has shaken up the e-learning community, Blackboard Inc. has been awarded a patent establishing its claims to some of the basic features of the software that powers online education.

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Fuente: [businessweek]

tags: e-learning, aprendizaje, web2.0, Blackboard, patent software