Saginaw Valley State Turns on Sakai

I recent spoke with the online learning team at Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU). They let me know that in May of this year, Sakai will become the enterprise learning management system at SVSU, replacing Blackboard. It’s great to see another smaller school (<10,000 students) using Sakai as an enterprise course management system. They are [...]

Sakai Update on Blackboard Patent Rejection

Today the Sakai Foundation released it’s formal statement commenting on the recent US Patent and Trademark Office action regarding the Blackboard Patent:
As you probably already know, we learned on Friday, March 28 that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a non-final action rejecting all 44 claims in Blackboard’s U.S. Patent 6,988,138 [...]