Dutch Student Residences Raided by Anti-piracy Squad
More of the same, though this time beyond U.S. borders. I wonder what sort of regime we are creating when these quasi-legal forces have the right to raid property and seize assets, all in the name of protecting content monopolies. Meanwhile, more raids on school districts are being reported in the U.S., though there is some question of the accuracy of these reports - you need to follow the Slashdot discussion. More...

Directions for ePortfolio Research
E-Portfolios have been getting a fair amount of attention lately, especially with the recently completed conference on the subject in Vancouver. This page gets us started on e-portfolios by suggesting research questions from a number of different people. More...

Learning Objects in an E-Learning Context
I can't read PDF files at this CyberCafe, but ADL's description sounds interesting: :With vigorous development of the Internet, e-learning system has become more and more popular. ADL proposes SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) specification that an XML-based metadata with physical files had been explored by many studies since 1997. More...

Exports Surge for Education Nation
Australia's investment in e-learning is beginning to be seen to pay off, as this article in the Sydney Morning Herald indicates. More...

Why IT Has Not Paid Off As We Had Hoped (Yet)
Interesting article surveying the first decade or so of information technology in the classroom. The authors look for the reason it hasn't really taken off yet, and find their answer in motivations: people who thrived in the type and paper era have no real incentive to change. More...

The New Amateur Journalists Weigh In
Some good discussion on TRDEV over the last few days on blogging. Rather than look simply at blogging in eduation, discussants are looking at the wider picture, which is good. This link is one that came up in the discussion and is one of the more balanced discussions of blogging from the point of view of the traditional press. More...

Speaking of Music Piracy...
You have to wonder whether the people who invested $400 or so for music players featuring legitimate 99 cent song downloads are feeling a little used now that music publishers have started pushing the prices back up again. More...

The Seven Principles of Sustainable Leadership
Leadership articles are usually very bad, fostering as they do what seems to me to be an ethos of manipulation and even deceit. This article - which should use the work 'properties' rather than 'principles' is not that sort of article, as it is more interested in describing the practices that have been successful, rather than advising some go-getter on how to get ahead. More...

Collaborating With Universities to Create a Continuous Learning Culture
I like this article because it looks beyond the idea of workplace learning as 'job training' and takes seriously the benefit to the learner (which provides motivation) as well as to the company. More...

Time Warner Takes Stake in ContentGuard
Time Warner has purchased a major stake in ContentGuard, owner of the XrML (now MPEG REL) DRM specification that was just approved by ISO. It gains two seats on the board and obtains enterprise licenses to ContentGuard's IP. Reaction from industry watchers is generally positive, since as this article notes, with with DRM intellectual property in the hands of a few companies, content producers generally shied away and the industry atrophied. More...