6 septembre 2018

Click or Brick Colleges
Zane Berge asks the question, "Will traditional, residential education in the 21st century be found only at a few elite institutions and be only for the wealthy who can afford to attend them?" He lingers on the idea that new technologies, when they are introduced, are usually used to do old things. More...

Re-Learning E-Learning
The author describes a report that "identifies three principles and five education consumer segments to guide e-Learning providers." Most of the article looks at the principles. Instead of creating coures, provides should create "bite-sized chunks". More...

Canada's Digital Collections
Funded by the Canadian federal government's Youth Employment Strategy, Canada's Digital Collections is a growing collection of subject specific resources created by young Canadians. More...

Partner Search
As part of the European Commission section of elearningeuropa, a partner search facility has been added. More...

Blogging By The Numbers
When things get popular on the internet, the numbers get big. How big? Well, this census of blogs reports that there are there are roughly 2.4 million to 2.9 million active Weblogs as of June 2003. More...

Trade Winds
Much more interesting is this account of the use of wireless instant messaging in the classroom. In this case, the text chat was displayed on a large screen in front of the room. "A panel on Web services featuring Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff provoked the most talked-about moment of the conference – at Benioff’s expense.... We thought this (Benioff's point) was news, until Ross Mayfield, CEO of one of the Web’s leading blogging software providers, Socialtext, led an online chat charge showing that most of this was apparently untrue." The author does a nice job of tracing the phenomenon. More...

In the Lecture Hall, a Geek Chorus
Interesting look at the impact of wireless instant messaging in the classroom. By now, though, we know what to expect. Some people read their email while others comment on the lecture. And, of course, some lecturers are complaining. More...

Learning & Technology Blogs
George Siemens has updated and moved his list of Learning & Technology Blogs (including full titles, correct spellings, URLs and everything). More...

Groove: Ten Good Reasons Not To Buy
George (I'm redesigning) Siemens picks up this nice link containing a sharp, incisive criticism of Groove. Having just used Groove to conduct an online seminar to Australia, I am in a good position to say that the criticisms are justified. Groove demands most of your system's resources, it is a bandwidth hog, its interface is awkward and cumbersome, and it is missing some essential features, such as videos. More...

Eldred v. Ashcroft: How Artists and Creators Finally Got Their Due
One of the drawbacks of online publication for at least some academics is that their work gets a wide reading and is thus exposed to the scrutiny of the Blogosphere. This article, published in an academic journal (at a major university yet) is a case in point. I don't need to offer a criticism; this review tears it to shreds. More...