The New Architecture of Information
Useful article about the organization of information on websites and the typical user's behaviour in accessing that information. Most users don't read web pages until they have found what they are looking for, skimming menus and pages only to determine that they are on the right path. More...
Components of an NSDL Architecture: Technical Scope and Functional Model
Describes the technical architecture of the National SMETE Digital Library (NDSL) with a focus on four major sets of end-user services: discovery, access, tailoring and social interaction. More...
Core Services in the Architecture of the National Digital Library for Science Education
Thescribes the core components of the National SMETE Digital Library (NDSL), a learning object repository intended for launch near the end of this year. The NDSL initiative is important because it is a departure from the LMS or LCMS-specific learning object repositories that favour "selected" publishers. More...
XML at the Heart of Texas A&M Student Services
You've read a lot on this list about XML and a few days ago a whole slew of items about middleware... now Texas A&M puts it all together to provide a comprehensive student services solution. "To facilitate the use of XML, the university deployed EntireX Broker, middleware from Software AG that acts as a gateway, allowing developers to work with code from a variety of sources. More...
Students Take to the Streets for Cause - and Extra Credit
I am going to include this link because it touches at the heart of so much of the debate about online learning, even if it is not about online learning. The story, in a nutshell, is that students at a Catholic school received extra course credit for taking part in an anti-abortion demonstration outside an abortion clinic. Now before you respond with joy or outrage - I have seen students recieve credit for working for such causes as international development (indeed, I recieved credit for that, many years ago), the promotion of multiculturalism, raising money for Oxfam, and more. More...
Wireless Attendance Recording: The FTL patent explained
See, this is the sort of thing that can just kill innovation. A company called Frontline Technology Limited (FTL) has obtained patents for "the transfer of student data by radio." Now the company's information page says, "I am using IEEE 802 wireless/ I am using GPRS to collect student data by radio. Should this be licensed by the patent? Yes." Thus, if you use your 802.11 wideless network to transfer an Excel speadsheet over your LAN, you should pay FTL royalties for this "innovation." This is not just some idle threat, either: FTP has taken Tasc Software Solutions Limited of Wolverhampton and others to court for infringement of its patent relating to the transfer of pupil data in education by radio ? patent number EP 0664061. More...
Learning Objects
Albert Ip yesterday on elearningleaders writes, with respect to learning objects, "As I continue to work with the learning technologist hat on, I am getting more and more ... (I am lost in word, English is not my first language!)." From reading the three papers on this website, I suspect the word Ip is searching for is "frustrated" (or perhaps "confused"). More...
What are Web Services
The writing isn't all it could be but this is another good description of web services. I like this article because approaches the topic by way of an example and because it has a sample of a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) document. More...
Stories, Curricula, Master's Degrees and Dragon Slaying
It is only appropriate that Roger C. Schank would use a story to extol the benefits of storytelling in education. The story Schank selects is in the education of young warriors being trained to be sent out to slay the dragon terrorizing the community. The university curriculum, authored and taught by the finest educators in the land, fails miserably. More...
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