Government Searches for National E-learning Agenda
Scott Leslie culls two bits of coverage of last week's PanCanadian e-Learning Forum. This first item is survey article with a generally positive tone. The emphasis is on a proposed national strategy, an idea that is gathering steam here in Canada. More...

Google Unveils Rival to Friendster
Google has sort of quietly launched / not launched a social networking service called Orkut. I tried to sign up, but you have to be invited by some who is already a member of the network. More...

Paving the Way
Leaving aside how awkward the PDF document is to read online, this new guide released by BECTA is an authoritative 'best practices' list that looks at learning content developement. More...

The Maine Idea
Among the more comprehensive coverage of the Maine laptop I have seen, this nine part article is unremittingly enthusiastic. "What happens when technology is accessible to all students all of the time? Continuous learning!" So enthuisiastic, in fact, that the content is more gloss than substance. More...

Creative Class War
I have made comments along these lines in the past, but this article by a Carnegie Mellon professor packs a punch. The message is simple: if creative talent decides to locate elsewhere, the American economy is in trouble. More...

What's it worth?
Definition is everything, and the proof is this example of a story that gets everything right but that misses the main point. What's right is the observation: employers are less frequently valuing a formal education, looking instead to an employee's demonstrated skills and attitude. Fair enough. More...

One-click RSS Subscriptions, Continued: The Lesser of Two Evils?
Still in the pre-draft stage, the proposed 'feed' URI scheme may bridge the gap between web page and RSS reader by placing a feed:// link on a page. More...

The Reusability Myth of Learning Object Design
I fogot to run this when it first came out last week - good thing I check my notes. The author looks at my argument in Design, Standards and Reusability to the effect that learning design and reusability are incompatible. More...

The Learning Marketplace: Meaning, Metadata and Content Syndication in the Learning Object Economy
In September, 2001, just for fun I created a 'book generator' and, for posterity, 'authored' two books using it: Knowledge, Learning and Community (a.k.a. Book 1) and Democracy and Freedom (a.k.a. Book 2). Inexplicably, because I link to them utterly nowhere (and haven't for years) they still generate about a hundred downloads a month, give or take, as you can see in my stats. More...

Blogs and Blogging: The 10 Most Important Ideas of 2003
There are some good observations collected in this article - but there should be, it's a list of the best ideas related to blogging in 2003. At the very least, it will give you some jargon - the "power law", the "tipping point". More...