DAT News
Search| CSU Academic Technology Services launches a new website |
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By lholden - 8/27/2009 We invite you to
visit the Academic Technology Services (ATS) newly designed website, www.calstate.edu/ats. ATS has recently completed a new
framework designed to help you better understand the array of projects that ATS
supports and how they can help you on your campus. We have listened to your
feedback and appreciate that in the past it’s often been a challenge for you to
see at a glance who we are, how we are organized, and how we support your
needs. Through our planning and consultation we determined that ATS projects
and services can be best discovered, understood and utilized by organizing our
projects around the benefits they provide to you, our users: · Accessing Quality Content
Easily · Sharing Exemplary Educational
Practices · Preparing Students for
Success · Supporting Professional
Development We have designed
the new ATS website to enable you to quickly become current on how ATS is
advancing and supporting teaching and learning innovation throughout our
system. We are striving to provide you with the resources you need, when you
need them; providing you answers to your “top of mind” questions. “How do I provide students and faculty
online learning resources that are both effective and
affordable?” “How do I continue to support and advance
the Accessible Technology Initiative in this challenging budget
climate?” “How do I ‘jump start’ incoming student’s
readiness in math, English, and information and communication technology (ICT)
literacy?” We welcome your
feedback and want this site to be a resource that provides you with the tools to
assist you in your efforts. This is only the beginning, so please visit us
often and provide feedback along the way on how we can best serve you.
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| Federal Circuit Rules in Favor of Desire2Learn Across the Board |
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By lholden - 7/27/2009 From the D2L patent
blog located here:
We are pleased to announce that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled on the appeals that resulted from the trial in Texas. The Federal Circuit has ruled in favor of Desire2Learn across the board and confirmed that all 38 patent claims asserted by Blackboard are invalid. Those who have followed this blog may recall that claims 36-38 of the patent were the subject of the jury trial and that we had asserted that those claims were invalid because the "invention" they claimed was present in prior art. To decide that issue, the Appellate Court first had to define the word "user" in the '138 Patent. Blackboard argued that the term "user" refers to an electronic user account, and that a user account is defined by a single user name and password combination. Desire2Learn asserted that a user is a person who uses the learning system. As the Appellate Court said, "The [patent] makes clear that the word 'user' refers to a flesh-and-blood person and not an electronic representation of that person." Having decided that Desire2Learn's interpretation of the word "user" was correct, the Court turned its attention to whether the prior art on which Desire2Learn relied at trial contained all of the elements of those claims. As the Court put it, "On the merits, we agree with Desire2Learn that claims 36-38, as properly construed, are invalid for anticipation as a matter of law by CourseInfo 1.5 and Serf." The second issue addressed by the Court was whether the Texas Court was correct in ruling that claims 1-35 of the '138 Patent were invalid. In short, the Texas Court had ruled that the "Means for assigning a level of access to and control of each data file based on a user of the system's predetermined role in a course," a "means-plus-function" term, was indefinite. The Federal Circuit has agreed that in the '138 Patent Blackboard tried to claim too broadly which invalidates those claims: "By failing to describe the means by which the access control manager will create an access control list, Blackboard has attempted to capture any possible means for achieving that end. Section 112, paragraph 6, is intended to prevent such pure functional claiming." Despite the challenges along the way, we have all of you to thank for supporting us through this lengthy process. We have always been, and will continue to be, about meeting the needs of our clients in their pursuit of advancing teaching and learning. Thank you for believing in us! |
| MERLOT Conference Registration: Early Bird Special |
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By lholden - 7/22/2009
Early-Bird Special
for MERLOT International Conference Extended Until Midnight
Tomorrow
Pass It On, Tell A
Friend!
We look forward to seeing you soon in San Jose for the MERLOT International Conference. We know you appreciate the value of our conference, new knowledge gained, friends made! Please let a friend or colleague know to act now! Register before 12 midnight PST tomorrow to take advantage of savings of up to $100 on the most exciting International Conference on Teaching & Learning Innovation. See conference schedule here. |
| New Resources on the DAT Site |
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By lholden - 7/15/2009 Check out our list of Campus LMS Resources Blackboard 9 Resource Links: Bb Resources Get the latest LMS News from around the web Updates from the Director of LMS Initiatives: Blog |
| Pachyderm 2.1 Beta |
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By lholden - 5/18/2009 There were over 60 people in attendance at the Introduction to Pachyderm
2.1 Beta at the recent CATS Conference.
Just wanted to remind you that Beta accounts are available to you. You can
use the form below to request an account.
ELIXR's latest case story about Transforming Business Math at CSUN was
built with 2.1
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