Patrick Dunn has an excellent four part presentation (using Prezi) on Creating Engaging E-Learning at Networked Learning Design. . Be sure to check out his tools page for some useful tools to help with the process.

A federal appeals court has invalidated 38 of Blackboard Inc.’s contested patent claims to be invalid in ongoing litigation between the D.C.-based education software company and its Canadian competitor, Desire2Learn Inc. 

The ruling brings to an end one portion of a year's long dispute between Blackboard and Desire2Learn.  Claims 1 through 38 (out of 44) have been invalidated by the appellate court, Unfortunately, claims 39 to 44 were not an issue in the appeal, though the US Trademark Office is also continuing it's re-examination of Blackboard's patent. 

B. J. Schone has posted an excellent article on planning and executing webinars at E-Learning Weekly.

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