patent – D’Arcy Norman dot net https://darcynorman.net no more band-aids Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:21:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://darcynorman.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/crankforpeace3-552f33a1v1_site_icon-32x32.png patent – D’Arcy Norman dot net https://darcynorman.net 32 32 1067019 on the university of phoenix lms patent https://darcynorman.net/2013/01/29/on-the-university-of-phoenix-lms-patent/ https://darcynorman.net/2013/01/29/on-the-university-of-phoenix-lms-patent/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:46:21 +0000 http://darcynorman.net/?p=16419 Continue reading "on the university of phoenix lms patent"]]> So the University of Phoenix was awarded a patent recently, and on first glance it looks to be another round of “patent the LMS and destroy the competition”. But it’s not.

Here’s the press release.

Here’s the patent.

It’s about automatically sequencing a series of learning objects based on the activity of students. Someone does something, and the order of presentation of some items is shuffled in response.

This is not a patent on learning management systems. This is not a salvo in an ed tech war to end all ed tech wars. It’s learning objects. Remember those? Yeah. Just barely. But now there’s a patent for one aspect of automatically sequencing them.

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