MMS to Overtake SMS Messaging by 2005 - Ericsson
Interesting item that predicts that multimedia messeging (MMS) will overtake simple text-based messaging (SMS) within the next three years. Though wireless multimedia email and website marketing has largely failed, multimedia messaging will be big because it satisfies a demand. More...

Cherri M. Pancake on Usability Engineering
With a name like Cherri M. Pancake you may be tempted to think of her as the Faith Popcorn of usability. You may grow even more sceptical when you read that her qualifications include six years studying the Mayan Indians at the Ixchel Ethnological Museum in Guatemala. More...

McGraw Hill Wants $263,000 From State
This item raises so many issues I just had to run it, even though it doesn't deal directly with online learning (saving grace: the article does contain the word 'website'). In brief: because so many students were failing a standard exam, one slated to become a graduation requirement, a court ordered McGraw Hill to release the questions. More...

Some in Norfolk Hope to Ease School Daze
I thought I had seen everything, but today I saw a seminar attendee at CAUCE who had to be nudged awake in order to ask her question. Well, no surprise considering that things got started at 8:00 a.m. this morning. More...

University Systems a Haven for Hackers

Coverage of a presentation by David Dittrich at the CanSecWest security conference. The gist of thie talk is that university systems are especially vulnerable to hackers because they tend to be less secure. More...

If You Build It, They Will Come: Building Learning Communities Through Threaded Discussions
Before I disagree with this article, let me say that it is quite a good article and that educators interested in incorporating discussion into their online course should read it. To a large degree this article looks at the assessment of discussion contributions in an online course and proposes an assessment metric. More...

The Value of Online Media
Today's prestige publications in academia are still print publications, but if trends in other fields are any indication (and I argue that they are), this could change. More...

Beyond Awareness... Moving Towards Migration
Follow-up from a story posted on OLDaily a week or so ago. As reported here, Microsoft has been leaning on schols, demanding that they pay a flat fee per computer or face an extensive audit in the next month. More...

A Guide to Accepting Donated Computers for Your School
This may change by the time you read this (it has changed a couple of times already, but this version was live as of 12:04 a.m. May 4 Atlantic Time), but according to Microsoft, "It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine. If a company or individual donates a machine to your school, it must be donated with the operating system that was installed on the PC." More...

IFIC, CIFP Partner on Distance Education Web Site
I find this very interesting - the Investment Funds Institute of Canada and The Canadian Institute of Financial Planning are creating a new online distance learning education institute (which you can see at http://www.ifse.ca). More...