Costs Negate E-learning ROI
I've commented on the high cost of learning management systems before, but this article is the first real sign that the mainstream is feeling the pinch. More...

How to Ruin Society
From the honesty in journalism department, I pass along this article I wrote for my other site, NewsTrolls. It has little to do with e-learning, but lists my responses to a wide range of issues (including education) raised by Ben Stein in a recent article in Forbes. More...

Paying for Learning Objects in a Distributed Repository Model
One thing I like vacations is that I am able to get so much work done. A case in point is this long overdue description of how a payment system would work in a distributed learning object repository network. More...

Text-based Chat is Very Small Talk
This article points to the small number of users who would prefer to use text-based chat to obtain hlp desk support from a website instead of, say, the telephone. My own experiences with chat are mixed. I think it can work pretty well if it's up front and easy to use, but people aren't going to go looking for it. More...

Peer-To-Peer: The Next Hot Trend in E-Learning?
Useful article describing the ses of peer-to-peer (P2P) networking in an educational context. Three major applications are suggested: data sharing, resource sharing, and workgroup collaboration. P2P computing has been slow to take hold because users must install software on their computers. More...

A Glove That Speaks Volumes
This is one of these inventions that could spawn a raft of useful applications: a glove that converts American Sign Language into electronic text. It seems to me that this glove would be an excellent tool for the teaching of ASL. More...

New Report Finds Linking Community Service to Curriculum Builds Better Students, Better Citizens
A study that tries to show, in a nutshell, "that large numbers of young Americans are not fully engaged - intellectually or otherwise - in the teaching and learning enterprise. As many as half of all high school students find their classes boring, and substantial majorities see no particular reason to get good grades in school or to refrain from cheating on tests. More...

Open Software & Open Standards in South Africa
Vendors of instructional and learning management software in the international market might want to take note of the line of reasoning in this article: "A sustained Rand slide will make licenses on imported software (not to mention other imports) prohibitively expensive. More...

Four Dimensions of Collaboration and Networked Organizations
This is one of these items that I read and ask myself whether there is an e-learning application. The main idea is that the most effective organization is one that is decentralized (networked, to use this article's terminology) but which can work in a centrally organized way where possible. More...