Patent Office Rejects Blackboard’s User Role Patent
Monday, March 31st, 2008Back in February, a judge ruled in favor of Blackboard in a patent dispute case involving the concept of multiple user roles through a single log-in. The result was that Desire2Learn was found to have infringed on Blackboard’s patent rights and must pay damages of $3.1 million U.S.
The champagne must be flowing today in the […]
Learning Technology Categories Increasingly Blurry
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008I delivered a Webinar session last week titled “Learning Technology 101: LMS, LCMS, & Talent Management Systems.” In this session, I described the features found in these three types of enterprise technologies and mentioned that the distinctions between them is becoming blurry.
Many learning management systems (LMSs) now include traditional learning content management (LCMS) features, specifically, […]
Jury Rules Blackboard Has a Patent on LMS User Roles
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Let’s be honest. The world of learning technology rarely has much in the way of legal intrigue. A significant exception is the patent case between two LMS providers, Blackboard and Desire2Learn.
At the core of the case are Blackboard’s allegations that they hold a legal patent on the idea of user roles in learning management systems.
Alfred […]
Range in Pricing of Commercial Learning Management Systems
Friday, April 13th, 2007My last two blog posts examined the change in average pricing for learning management systems from 2005 to 2007. It’s easy to make the mistake and assume that average pricing means that all systems cost about the same. This is true for commodity goods and services like peanut butter, Web hosting, and cellular phone plans. […]
LMS Pricing Trends (Hosted Implementations)
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007My last post examined the average three-year, cumulative costs of commercial learning management systems in installed implementations from 2005 to 2007. This article will look at the the same pricing scenarios for hosted implementations.
Average prices listed below stem from our research on 52 commercial LMSs in 2005 and 2006 and the 63 systems currently covered […]
LMS Pricing Trends (Installed Implementations)
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007I’ve been digging through our research databases and looking at the historical pricing of learning management systems. The chart below shows the average three-year cumulative pricing for small (500 users), medium (10,000 users), large (25,000 users), and very large (100,000 users) implementations installed on clients’ servers from 2005-2007. (I’ll provide the data for hosted implementations […]
