Learning is a Recursive, Self-Reflexive System Process
This is all very nice, except, of course, that it is impossible to take all of learning, put it into one nice little box, and then say, "Learning is such and such." I mean, take a look at this account. More...
Link to a press release syndication service for education products and services. It's like a certain distance education weblog (which I will not name) but without all the extra page views. More...
Reed Elsevier Joins RM for Online Education Initiative
In case you didn't know, Reed Elsevier, a British-Dutch publishing company, makes more money from online operations than eBay or Amazon.com (more than 1bn annual web revenues). This is worth keeping in mind as you read this short article describing the company's plans to distribute content to schools online. More...
Microsoft Outlook
Today's newsletter is a tribute to Microsoft Outlook. Well, maybe not a tribute. After discovering that my old copy of Outlook wouldn't run on my new XP computer (it decided that I am a software pirate even though I bought and paid for my copy with cold hard cash), I went out and bought a new copy, which, when I installed it Saturday, promptly failed to connect to the Exchange server. More...
The Effectiveness of Models of Flexible Provision of Higher Education
Summary of a report (the full report is available in PDF at the bottom of the page) assessing the effectiveness of flexible delivery of college and university courses. After sketching what is meant by flexible delivery (a definition that focuses on accessibility options and preferences rather than technology) the summary lists some advantages and disadvantage. More...
EduZope Initiative Seeks to Combine Standards Support With Open Source
This article summarizes the launch of the EduZope initiative. This article from CETIS isn't their best work, filled as it is with alphabet soup (and failing anywhere to state just what EduZope is intended to be). More...
Objective: Re-usable Competency
IMS has released version 1.0 of the Re-useable Definition of Competency or Educational Objective (RDCEO). The purpose of RDCEO is to create a means to point to competency definitions that have been defined elsewhere. More...
Shamed Scientist's Work Fills Web
It's a good issue with the potential for bad solutions. Eight of Hendrik Schon's discredited research papers on Thursday were retracted by the journal Science after it was discovered that he used fabricated data. But copies of the work linger around the web. Thus there is no way for people to know that the work was discredited. More...
The Tablet PC: It Rocks
Oh, sure, nobody gives me a sneak peek about great new technologies I've been touting here for months (even years). I guess I'll have to be content with the trade papers (but mark my words, someone's going to want a sneak peek at something of mine, and then the tables will be turned). More...
OKI, IMS, ADL and SIF Join Up
This is major news. The alphabet soup in the headline stands for Open Knowledge Initiative, Instructional Management Systems, Advanced Distributed Learning and Schools Interoperability Framework. They represent among them the bulk of the work in the United States on educational technology specifications. More...
