Microsoft release LRN 3.0 Toolkit, supporting IMS Content Packaging, IMS Metadata and SCORM
Hot on the heels of the release of a similar package by Macromedia as a Dreamweaver, Microsoft releases an IMS and SCORM content packaging toolkit. Naturally, the toolkit is intended to be used with Microsoft's Learning Resource iNterchange (LRN). More...

Rewarding Punishment
More discussion of the proposed antitrust settlement that will see Microsoft donate a billion dollars of hardware and software to underfunded schools. More...

Relate
It's need to be able to surf to a brand new forum like this. When I arrived this morning there were zero posts and five members (an administrator and four 'starting members'). Makes me feel like I'm right on top of things in this field. More...

The Power of the School Website
"In the school of the future, the website will become one of the main conduits for the school administrative and teaching staff to maintain personal connection with parents,students and the wider community." But how do schools use their websites today. More...

The Power of the School Website, part 2
Further analysis of school websites, and in particular, an analysis of how schools depict their head teacher. This stat should tell you everything you need to know: 'The Invisible Head: 54 percent'. More...

The Digital Divide in the Classroom
A cautionary tale expressing the frustrations and the fears of some classroom instructors. "The students sit down in front of their computers. Some have trouble logging on to the system, others find their computer keeps crashing. Quite a few don't know how to use a search engine properly. More...

Survey of America's Youth Shows Importance of Job Shadowing In Making Realistic Career Choices
In some of my articles and seminars I have talked about the way online learning will help students conduct their learning in environments outside the school. This poll, conducted for Junior Achievement, shows the usefulness of that approach. More...

Buy Notebooks, Not Desktops
Good advice for schools considering hardware purchases. Desktop computers don't move around, but students and instructors do. And notebooks today are relatively inexpensive and powerful enought to handle just about any computing need. More...

LearnKey Signs Agreement With RealNetworks
Online learning meets streaming video. Just another 'strategic alliance' meeting (one of dozens that hit the press release tabs every day), but this one is more interesting than usual: LearnKey has signed an agreement to deliver learning material through Real Media. More...

Gorilla Warfare
"Big names from outside the training world are lining up to become the 800-pound gorilla in the e-learning market," suggests this article. And what follows is an interesting survey of the interest and efforts generated from four different sectors: the consulting sector, the resource planning sector, tech firms and retailers. Nobody has found the key yet, but the summer of 2002 should see some winners begin to emerge, according to the article. And the likely winners will be "companies like Siebel and Oracle and Microsoft buying the LMS vendors. More...