12 Kinds of Knowledge Workers
George Siemens picked up this little item for elearnspace. There are some language and formatting issues, and I'm not sure I agree with this list (the categorizations are either too broad or too narrow, I'm not sure which), but it's worth the minute it will take you to read. More...

Information Superhighway Has Potholes and Pitfalls for High Schools

Journalists sometimes like to be cute, and this sometimes results in the mangling of meaning. More...

Collaborative Representations: Supporting Face to Face and Online Knowledge-building Discourse
It took me a couple of attempts to get the gist of this article (which I attribute to the use of a two-column PDF format, terrible for screen reading). But the main idea is to explore how the visual representation of information and online collaboration can be combined into a single system. More...

Linkages Between Secondary and Post-secondary Vocational Education and Training in China and Australia
As the title suggests, this book length PDF compares vocational education in the two countries. Perhaps the most telling difference is that the system in Australi is tied more closely to desired outcomes, while China's is based on a system of linkages. More...

Evaluation Report of the Becta Digital Video Pilot Project
When I was at AusWeb 01 I spent most of the conference working on a video project (I never did get my CD - if anyone out there has a copy of the video we created, please send it to me so I can share it with the list), making it one of my more interesting conference experiences. More...

Bill Would Ease Copyright Limits For E-Learning
Overview of the Technology Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act, considered likely to pass this fall. It's a good summary, listing the major improvements offered by the act, such as the extension of fair use to digital material, and also outlining the limitations, such as the restriction to techer-led classes at accredited institutions. More...

"Should the Computer Teach the Student..." 30 Years Later
An odd article. 30 years ago, the author presented a paper called "Should the Computer Teach the Student, or Vice-Versa?" at a Boston conference. This article revisits that paper. But it does so without any insight as to what is happening in online learning today. More...

Lack of School Discipline Rapped
The OECD releases the strangest surveys sometimes. This report is one of those, in which it is noted that while Canadian students "have more access to computers, labs and libraries than almost anywhere on Earth," their classes "are noisy and disorderly, and nearly half complained students do nothing at all for more than five minutes at the start of every class.". More...

Google: What's it Worth to You?
Google yesterday launched a service after a six month beta test, the Google answer service, in which customers submit a question and specify how much they are willing to pay for a solution (and how quickly they need the answer). More...

IBM Bets $10 Billion on 'On-Demand' Computing

Just a quick note on this one: if IBM can offer "on-demand computing" how hard could it be to offer "on-demand learning". More...