When the Cows Come Home: A Proven Path of Professional Development for Faculty Pursuing E-Learning
The title promises more than the article delivers, but this summary of the University of Houston's CampusNet Online Workshop, or COW, is worth reading. More...

Designing Collaborative E-Learning For Results
Case study of the adaptation of a two-hour lunch seminar on conflict resolution to online deliver. More...

From Classrooms to Learning Environments: A Midrange Projection of E-Learning Technologies
Our experience with information and communications technologies is sufficient to allow us to identify the progression through the two phases of technological adoptation. This progression may be mapped to a continuum of technological innovations that are now becoming more familiar to researchers in the field. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, June 10, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...

Politicians Must Push Local e-learning Industry
Interesting item from an Australian newspaper arguing that, while that country has done a lot to establish a leadership position in e-learning, the industry needs more support from politicians and administrators. I'm not sure the example makes the case, however. The author argues that an internet startup, myInternet, is not being adopted by state education departments even though it is well-regarded overseas, serving (it claims) 1.5 million users. Perhaps. More...

Ensemble Collaboration Brings Online Learning Back to Life
Press release for Ensemble's launch at ASTD, covered here yesterday. In particular, follow the three links in the middle of the release. More...

e-Learning Dashboard
Kevin Kruse of e-LearningGuru has come up with this nifty e-learning 'Dashboard' containing e-learning headlines, current stock prices of major e-learning companies, one click access to 9 different e-learning blogs, and a calendar of e-learning events for the month ahead. More...

New Service Connects Prospective Online Faculty With Institutions Offering Online Courses
When people say 'on demand' as in those IBM commercials they usually mean content or software. But probably the major 'on demand' application will be services, and in particular, people. More...

Ignou Makes Mark Worldwide in Distant Learning
You might be hearing more about Ignou (the Indira Gandhi National Open University) as time goes by. More...

E-Learning Strategies - Embrace or Eschew?
With all the discussions happening in Britain (and just beginning in Canada) about e-learning strategies, it seems relevant to step back for a second and ask whether we need one at all, to ask whether "e-learning [is] really so special and different from what we know about pedagogy and student learning that, instead of viewing it as an integral part of a learning and teaching strategy, it requires a special strategy all of its own?" Good summary of the arguments in favour and against, with extended discussion. More...

Commonwealth of Learning Conference
More links from the Commonwealth of Learning online conference, which today continues with discussions of open content and open source, resistance to technology and the use of blogs in learning: Planet Apache, a collection of blogs written by members of the Apache Software Foundation (an Open Source software development community). More...