Campus on a Keyboard
This item made the rounds on DEOS today, mostly for this one bit: Mark Smith, director of government relations for the American Association of University Professors, is unconvinced. "In many ways, there is no substitute for the give-and-take of the classroom," he says. More...

Open-Source Content Management Systems
Though the focus of the article is content management systems, it could be applied to any sort of software as the author provides an extended discussion of the benefits and disadvantages of open source. More...

John Stone Fitness
I'm not sure what to make of this site, but it's very inspiring and a testament to what a little determination and a blog can do. Having purchased an exercise bicycle just a week ago (those who have seen my photos can understand why) I feel a little like 'John Stone 2003'. No, I do not intend to use my blog as a personal fitness journal (you will no doubt be relieved to know). More...

The Promise of Online Simulations
Good overview of the role simulations can play in learning, including an account of what topics are best taught using simulations - areas where judgement skills, not facts, need to be emphasized. More...

The Barriers of Content and Context
Yes! "None of the leading social technology solutions allow users to pull information in the form of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds into a news aggregator. This is a model widely adopted by blogging solutions, and one that cries out to be integrated into social networking apps." Simplistic, unidimensional, context insensitive social networking applications (or any application, for that matter) misrepresent the potential benefit of the technology and fuel the inevitable backlash. More...

SCORM and the Art of Specification Maintenance
"SCORM 1.3 is dead, long live SCORM 2004!" Thus begins CETIS's authoritative coverage of the new release, along with this interesting remark: "the first public indications of ADL's desire to hand the present SCORM 'to the community' have surfaced in last week's co-located CEN/ISSS and IEEE LTSC meeting." What's also interesting is that SCORM 2004 isn't really a new version, and that there is a widespread desire (and committment on the part of ADL) to stop making changes to it. More...