5 Elements of Digital Storytelling: Introduction

This website is a preliminary to a website that will focus on digital storytelling to be launched by the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota and New Directions for News. More...

USC to Students: No Sharing Files

The gist of this short item is that students risk being expelled for a year from USC if they are caught using file trading systems such as Kaaza. More...

Second Thoughts on 'Bundled' E-Journals
If you want to read one journal article, why should you pay for 500? That's the sort of question libraries are asking as bundled online content requires that they pay for articles and journal contents that few (if any) students actually read. More...

eLearning Guild
Just launched (March, 2002), the the eLearning Guild is designed as a community of practice for designers, developers, and managers of e-Learning. More...

Company Proposes Overhaul of SAT
The thin edge of the wedge? The College is considering changes to the Scholastic Apptitude Test (SAT) I. The changes are being considered in order to meet the requirements of the University of California. More...

Debate? Dissent? Discussion? Oh, Don't Go There!
The research is at the point mostly anecdotal rather than empirical, but the proposal is provokative: today's students are less willing to engage in debate and dispute, less individualistic, and more likely to focus on similarities rather than differences. More...

Privacy in the Online Classroom
This article discusses the reasons to limit access to parts of your school website: limited access facilitates the use of copyrighted materials, it protects your material (and your students' material) from being downloaded and used by others, and it allows you and your students to interact in privacy. More...

A Proposal for New Schools in the Age of the Internet
OK, this article doesn't go into a lot of depth, but it shows that some teachers are yearning for the sort of learning the internet can provide. What sort of learning? "Here comes the radical idea: We completely change schools into 'activity centers' where students gather for active learning and socializing. More...

Connections and Emergence: Developing a Playshop Model Through Connectionist Ideas
This item is interesting on two levels. On the one hand, it proposes the use of connectionist principles to create an experimental space for learning called Playshop. The idea here is that the learning of rules and principles an emergent result of participating in a network of story-telling and playful activities. More...

ROI for E-Learning
This article looks in some detail at two factors that may be overloked in assessments of return on investment (ROI) for online learning: efficiency and speed. The author proposes an assessment of efficiency based on the ratio between the increase in a learner's knowledge or skills and all information delivered. More...