Michael Feldstein and Blackboard

Michael Feldstein will not be winning an “educator of the year” award from Blackboard. He has been one of the most constant sources of information in Blackboard’s patent for all-things-LMS. He recently posts on Desire2Learn’s altruistic behaviour in fighting the patent: Why Desire2Learn CEO John Baker is Our Hero. Personally, I’m not convinced D2L is doing it out of altruistic reasons…but it does appear to be a side effect of their willingness to challenge Blackboard’s boorish behaviour (that is officially my first use of “boorish” in five years fo blogging ).