College to Address Copyright
It won't be business as usual next year at Ithaca College as instructors will now have to obtain copyright clearance for materials traditionally shared - legally, they thought (probably correctly), under fair use - in student course packs. More...

Hung Out to Dry by the Sponsors
With WalMart selling sanitized versions of music and video and greater corporate influence reaching intoi affairs of academia and culture, it's worth looking at this cautionary tale about what happens when creativity pushes the edge in a sponsored world. More...

Does the End Justify the Means?
This response to David Weinberger and Doc Searls's article 'World of Ends' challenges some now popular opinions, and especially the idea that value in a network is created at the end, not the middle. But is a smart network a bad thing. More...

Ed Blogging 2003
Some highlights for the year in the world of Ed-Blogging. I don't agree with the picks, but hey, if I don't like them, as they say, I should write my own - this is the blogosphere after all. More...

2004: The Turning Point
In this article I base my projections not on stock prices, sales trends or focus group analysis. I base it on what I think - on what I feel, in the classic sense of the Idoru - is driving the hearts of those who will make the final decisions on the future of the internet, those who use it. More...

The Algebra of RSS Feeds
Useful first steps toward defining a notation for the manipulation of the contents of RSS feeds, including accounts of feed splitting, splicing, subtracting and more. In the comments I have added to the termninology and offered formal definitions for each term in a type of basic predicate calculus for feeds. More...

Actionable Sense, Networks and Purpose
Interesting item, based on the concept that "meaning and full extension of skills (and self, too) occur within the social context of a project that has a contextual and social purpose - an objective to focus the deployment of skills. Then we have actionable sense." This idea is used to defined the development of 'ad hoc networks' that collect those skills within an organization that can meet the stated objective. More...

How Boring is the E-Learning Market
Reflections from an e-learning conference held recently in Britain. Cynical reflections. "The industry stages very predictable events where: publishers argue that there should be more emphasis on e-learning content; software companies argue that there should be more emphasis on tools; and learning theorists want to see more collaboration between learners and more attention on 'pedagogy' in general." Yup. More...

Toward an open empowered learning model of pedagogy in higher education
Shirley Reushle, Amy Antonio, Mike Keppell, ResearchGate, 2017/05/22
Relevant and realistic: "The separation of assessment from learning could have significant ramifications for the outcomes of learning because a schism could appear in the alignment of the curriculum in a disaggregated model. Quality assurance of learning and certification of its outputs become problematic so new ways of aligning and assessing learning outcomes and arranging academic support for students will be needed.". More...

From Pikachu to Patients: The Rise and Rise of Augmented Reality
Jeremy Miles, GP Strategies, 2017/05/22

It's an unusual "rise and rise" that includes a significant retrenchment, but that's what's documented here. More...