Discussion Topic: Desire2Learn have posted a 3.5M printable PDF of the patent with figures (together with the complaint against them)
Up one levelIf you want to print the patent with figures, it would probably be more convenient to use the omnibus pdf file that Desire2Learn have posted in their new patentinfo blog. Very community-minded of them to post this - thanks!
The file is 63 pages long - 4 pages is the complaint; the rest is the patent. All for only 3.5MB of bandwidth :o)
They also ask, in their blog, to be emailed (at PriorArt _at_ Desire2Learn _dot_ com) with info about prior-art, but I assume that they are also watching the wikipedia prior-art page and maybe tracking some del.icio.us tags - I've started noting prior art as I encvcounter it in vle/prior-art, and most bookmarkers seem to be including the tag 'blackboard' when collecting material related to the patent issue. I've continued to bookmark some of the especially interesting new commentary and news, and as ever Stephen Downes has been doing a thorough and astute job of summarising the emerging discourse and news (if that link is broken try this one).