Michael Feldstein
About: Amateur obnoxious loudmouth who accidentally went pro.
Blog Posts
IMS Learning Information Services: The Motivating Pain
--Today Oracle announced the release of the Student Administration Integration Pack, or SAIP. It’s the first product that I have worked on as a...
Bring On Da Noise: The Backchannel Panel
--I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while. Barry Dahl has a great post analyzing the back-channel comments from our recent panel disc...
Blackboard, Inc. Analysis, Part 1: Software Licenses
--This is a guest post by Jim Farmer. As the dominant supplier of learning system software, Blackboard Inc. is “mission critical” to colleges and uni...
Social Constructivists and eLearning
--This is a guest post by Jim Farmer On July 15th Luke Fernandez, Weber State University and frequent Sakai contributor, posted “Moodle and Social Co...
Distributed Learning is Here: Ask Any College Student
--This is a guest post by Jim Farmer for a special issue on distributed learning environments for On the Horizon. Jim is Coordinator, Scholarly Syste...
Looking for Suggestions on Mapping Software
--OK, Dear Reader, I need your help once again. You haven’t let me down yet. My wife is working on a summer program for high school ESL kids wh...
Going to the D2L Conference
--Correction: My presentation with Bill Lee is on Wednesday, not Thursday. I’ll be going to the Desire2Learn conference Monday night through W...
Moodle Developer Martin Dougiamas Honored at OSCON 2008
--This is a guest post by Jim Farmer. Martin Dougiamas was named Best Education Enabler at last week’s OSCON (Open Source Conference) 2008 in Portlan...
Connecting Blackboard to Sakai and Moodle
--I didn’t intend to post about this, but people keep asking me what I think, so I guess I need to get something up. For starters, you should r...
SIS to Facebook Direct. Introducing Schools on Facebook.
--Hi! I’m Michael Staton and I’m a guest blogger. What I say in no way represents Michael Feldstein or his ancestors. Also, our screen...
Purse String Paradigm Shift
--Michael just introduced me two posts below. I’m Michael Staton, and I’m a guest blogger. As Michael already mentioned, my fledgling st...
The Second Anniversary: Blackboard v. Desire2Learn
--This is a guest post by Jim Farmer Two years ago while speaking at the Desire2Learn Users Conference, CEO John Baker learned that Blackboard Inc. a...
Please Welcome Guest Blogger Michael Staton
--Michael is the CEO of a company called Inigral, the company that produces the Facebook Courses application. You may have seen his earlier guest pos...
Desire2Learn Conference Summary
--I had fun at the D2L conference last week. As usual, I don’t have as much time as I would like to blog about the details, so this highlight p...
Victory for D2L, Opportunity for Blackboard
--Well, my flight was delayed, so I missed the opportunity to witness D2L’s court victory celebration at Graceland. And I’m sure that the...
The ‘On the Horizon’ Series Is Complete
--With Jim Farmer’s post, we have completed the series. I want to thank both the authors and the readers who have commented on this post. IR...
Sakai Paris 2008: The State of the Union
--Let me cut to the chase. If you looked at Sakai in the past and ruled it out, it’s time to look again. This is a new Sakai. A little over a ...
A Service-Oriented Virtual Learning Environment
--This is a guest post by Andrew G. Booth and Brian P. Clark for On the Horizon series on distributed learning. Professor Andrew G. Booth, a National...
Web 2.0 LMS Opportunities and Obstacles: Exploring OpenSocial, OpenID,and OpenCourseWare in NIXTY
--This is a guest post by Glen Moriarty, PsyD, for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments. Glen, who is CEO of NIXTY, has ser...
Creating a Social Portfolio
--This is a guest post by Nathan Garrett for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments. Nathan is two weeks from being an PhD Ca...
Sakai and OpenSocial: A Different Approach to Distributed Learning Applications
--This is a guest post by Dr. Ian Boston for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments. Dr Boston holds a first degree in Engine...
You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato, Let’s Not Call the Whole Thing Off: The Challenge of User Experience Design in Distributed Learning Environments
--This is a guest post by Jutta Treviranus for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments. Jutta established and directs the Adap...
Distributed Learning Environments and OER: The Change Management Challenge
--This is a guest post by Patrick Masson and Ken Udas for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments. Patrick Masson is currently...
Writing in the Digital Age
--This is a guest post by Alex Reid for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments. Alex is an Associate Professor of English and...
At EUNIS and Sakai the Next Two Weeks
--I’ll be at the EUNIS conference this coming week (arriving Monday morning on the red eye) and the Sakai conference the next week (arriving in...
Perspectives from a Geek with a Startup
--This is a guest post by Michael Staton for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments. Michael studied poverty alleviation for ...
Secret Society Maybe Not So Secret
--Since I complained recently about the IMS needing to open up more, it’s only fair that I should give credit when they actually do it. Chuck S...
Blackboard Inc. Shows Deep Compassion for Desire2Learn Customers
--As expected, Blackboard has taken Desire2Learn back to court, claiming that 8.3 still infringes and charging them with contempt. Interestingly, the...
Repositioning institutional approaches to technology in the context of Web 2.0, Personal Learning Environments and Utility Computing: A cybernetic approach
--This is a guest post by Scott Wilson and Kamala Velayutham for On the Horizon series on distributed learning. Scott is a Senior Researcher at the I...
SocialLearn: Bridging the Gap Between Web 2.0 and Higher Education
--This is a guest post by Martin Weller for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments. Martin is Professor of Educational Techno...
Distributed Learning Environment Posts Coming
--I am delighted to announce the beginning of a series of guest posts on distributed learning environments by the authors who will be contributing to...
I, Too, Am a Twit
--For a long time, I vowed never to get sucked into Twitter. The idea of broadcasting my every belch and hiccup to the world in real time just struck...
D2L Resolves Current Patent Burdens
--According to the latest entry on D2L’s patent blog, D2L has payed the court judgment plus post-judgment interest in full and has also migrate...
Opening Up the IMS
--In general, I am a fan of the IMS. I believe that we need interoperability standards in education, and I think that the IMS’s recent work suc...
Blackboard and Desire2Learn Fight Over Venue for Next Round
--*Sigh.* At some point I hope the world—and the Blackboard case—will slow down enough so that I’ll actually have time to blog abou...
An Update on Blackboard Calling Desire2Learn Customers
--A while ago, I noted D2L’s claim that Blackboard General Counsel Matt Small (whose title either is going to be changed or has already been ch...
I Want More
--The EDUCAUSE webinar on edupatents today was very good. (The archived event is available.) James Hilton, University of Virginia’s CIO, did a ...
Oracle’s Work with Fluid on Accessibility
--Although I try to maintain separation between e-Literate, which is my personal blog, and my life as an Oracle employee, I don’t mind posting ...
Blackboard’s Response to the USPTO Office Action
--In case you haven’t seen it yet, Blackboard has responded to the non-final invalidation of their patent by the USPTO. I’ve only had tim...
What I Want from the EDUCAUSE Seminar on Edupatents
--Seb has a good post up raising some questions for the free EDUCAUSE webinar on edupatents tomorrow at 1 PM Eastern time. I’ll add a few of my...
Didn’t See This One Coming
--The business processes of Blackboard as interpreted through Bollywood movies. And if that doesn’t get you curious enough to click on a hyperl...
The Creepy Treehouse
--There’s an article in NC State’s campus newspaper about Blackboard’s Facebook integration. I’m always interested to hear wh...
More Tech Radium v. Blackboard, Inc.
--I conferred with Jim Farmer on new patent infringement suit and a few interesting points came out: Tech Radium is suing Blackboard for violating t...
Blackboard, Inc. Sued for Patent Infringement
--A company called TechRadium is suing Blackboard in East Texas (Marshall, not Lufkin) for allegedly infringing on their patent on mass notification ...
And Now a Word From Our Non-commercial Sponsor…
--This is just a reminder that you should register right away for the 2-3-98 Conference on open source in higher education at fabulous Delhi, NY on J...
Blackboard v. Desire2Learn: The First Final Judgment
--This is a guest post by Jim Farmer. Delayed several days by a database failure at the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Friday, May ...
Stop the Madness!
--I’m at the IMS Learning Impact conference. Another conference, another T-shirt. I expect to get at least 5 conference bags and T-shirts this ...
Going to IMS Learning Impact This Week
--Ugh. I have so much to say about the JA-SIG conference and had just dug out enough from my work backlog to think about writing a few blog posts. No...
Cost of Exit
--A while back, I picked up on D’Arcy Norman’s complaint about how Moodle doesn’t export content to a standard. In a response to on...
Real-time College and University Transcripts Coming
--This is a guest post by Jim Farmer. “Today the four firms providing electronic transcript services [to U.S. colleges and universities and school di...
At the JA-SIG Conference Next Week
--I’ll be traveling to St. Paul, MN on Sunday for the JA-SIG conference. I’ll be there all week, including the post-conference Sakai plan...
Is Blackboard’s Lawyer Calling D2L’s Customers?
--Here’s an interesting bit from D2L’s patent blog: Clients have been calling us to let us know that Matthew Small, General Counsel of ...
SpikeSource Supporting Moodle on the Microsoft Stack
--Jim Farmer has an interesting guest post over at Seb’s blog about SpikeSource supporting Moodle on Windows/IIS. Both the creation of supporte...
Great Open Source Conference in Upstate New York
--Update: The dates of the conference are actually June 19-20. Sorry about that. (Patrick will never let me live this down.) My friend Patrick Masson...
What the Sakai Announcement Means
--Barry Dahl read the Sakai Foundation’s recent announcement about the Blackboard patent pretty closely and is concerned that it sounds like th...
Interview with an East Texas IP Lawyer on Blackboard v Desire2Learn
--A few of the usual suspects have pointed to this one already, but in case you haven’t seen it yet, Barry Dahl has a fantastic podcast intervi...
Blackboard Fails Statistics 101
--Blackboard has posted their response to the USPTO ruling. They make some claims about how this will impact the trial, which I’m not in a posi...
All 44 Blackboard Patent Claims Invalidated by USPTO
--This just in: On March 25, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued its Non-Final Action on the re-examination of the Blackboard Patent. We a...
Mashing Up the LMS the Google Way
--I have mentioned before Cambridge’s My Sakai project which, writ large, can be seen as an attempt to make Sakai more compatible with Web 2.0 ...
Comment Troubles
--I’m getting occasional reports from people that they’re getting error messages when they try to submit comments hereon e-Literate. (Som...
Bad News for Blackboard, Good News for Moodle
--The American Association of Community College’s Instructional Technology Council (ITC) has just published its 2007 Distance Education Survey ...
Case Study on Moving from WebCT to Moodle
--EDUCAUSE has posted a presentation by SUNY Delhi’s Clark Shah-Nelson on their transition from WebCT CE to Moodlerooms-hosted Moodle. It’...
On Open Source, Open Standards, and Lock-in
--I’ve been meaning to comment on D’Arcy Norman’s frustrations with not being able to export Moodle courses to a common standard. H...
Desire2Live
--There’s a very interesting interview of Desire2Learn CEO John Baker and General Counsel Diane Lank in T.H.E. Journal. It’s a particular...
Reminder: Abstracts Are Due Soon
--For any of you who were thinking about submitting an article for the On the Horizon issue I’m editing on breaking up the monolithic LMS, plea...
The Latest on the Edupatent Front
--As I noted in an earlier post, I’m traveling this week, so this post is going to be relatively short and light on analysis. If you’re t...
Traveling This Week
--I’m leaving tomorrow for the Oracle Higher Education Users’ Group Conference and will be gone most of the week. Anybody who will be the...
The Other Shoe Drops
--Al Essa informs us that there is a new edupatent suit by a new player. The critical difference here is that this time universities are being sued. ...
On Safety and Values
--Barry Dahl has posted some comments from John Baker regarding whether the possible backlash against Blackboard for the suit will have universities ...
Blackboard Inc. v. Desire2Learn Inc.: “Grey” Monday March 10, 2008
--Yesterday, Desire2Learn submitted its response to Blackboard’s request for injunction (which was apparently submitted under seal) and accompa...
A Couple of Good Patent Posts
--I’ve been slow to catch these because I’m really heads-down with work this week. (That will continue next week as well, since I’l...
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