ISO Project
I mentioned this ages ago, when they were first getting started. The purpose of the ISO project is "to assemble as many useful applications as we can find and package them as an ISO CD-ROM image. Users or their technical advisors can then download the ISO, burn CDs from it, and easily install the programs they need for scholastic use." Think of it as a freeware Linux distribution intended specifically for schools. More...

Making Online Communities Work
An online community takes ongoing care and feeding in order to flourish. This PowerPoint presentation looks at the steps taken by EdNA's online community to accomplish that. Critical factors include a focus on topics important to the community, the recruitment of a respected facilitator, the recruitment of thought leaders as participants, and making sure people have enough time to get involved. More...

Tutoring GenX
No slides or text from Diana Oblinger, another of Microsoft's high profile Ed Tech recruits, but the Australian covered her talk, which means we have at least some idea of what she said. Interactivity is important in learning, she said, and new technologies make much more interactivity possible. More...

World Education Market
I'm off to Portugal this weekend to speak at the World Education Market (WEM) exposition in Lisbon. Because of time zones and the usual complexitities of internet access, OLDaily may publish at odd hours. More...

SCO warns businesses over Linux liabilities
SCO, which said that it would not go after Linux users when it sued IBM, has gone after Linux users, sending letters to 1,500 corporations warning that their use of the open source software may result in financial liability because of patents. Critics say that SCO - which has now stopped distributing its version of Linux - has essentially declared war on the Linux community. More...

Wireless Fidelity
Interesting discussion that ponders the concept of a wire-free connection from coast to coast by dairy-chaining wireless nodes. Some good explanations of the different types of wireless networks. More...

Integrating Content Management With Digital Rights Management
In a report sponsored by ContentGuard, the authors discuss the use of digital rights in content management systems. Some good diagrams illustrate fairly clearly the mechanisms involved. No mention of Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL), the major competitor to ContentGuard's XrML. More...

The Transformed Academy
Pretty good slide show (though it starts slowly with a few hackneyed cliches ('Technology is the tool, not the...') outlining four major areas of change faced by universities: mission and markets, organizational structure, leadership, and assessment. More...

Education Network Australia: Discover, Communicate, Collaborate!
History and description of Education Network Australia (EdNA), the major educational metadata standards body Down Under. Future work for EdNA includes plans to "establish and extend online knowledge networks, by stimulating the growth of online learning communities through setting up and maintaining hubs, networks and partnerships." Worth noting in this plan (and I wonder how some EDUCAUSE delegates reacted) was a committment by EdNA was a committment to open source and a distributed resource discovery system. More...

An Expeditionary Approach to E-Knowledge
A forward looking presentation arguing that "software systems that enable e-learning, knowledge management, and performance support will merge their capabilities. The resulting e-knowledge capabilities will enable a fresh set of 'killer apps' involving the sharing of e-knowledge." I think that's true, and I think they're a lot closer than many people think. More...