The “Always Check” Approach to Online Literacy
Michael Caulfield, Hapgood, 2018/08/21
I really like the first part of this article: "the only viable literacy solution to web misinformation involves always checking any information in your stream" before you believe it or share it or whatever. No doubt, and he makes the case convincingly. More...
My online course quality rubric has a first name. It’s O-S-C-Q-R!
Lindsey Rae Downs, Alexandra Pickett, WCET Frontiers, 2018/08/07
This article summarizes and provides a number of resources supporting the Open SUNY Course Quality Review (OSCQR) Rubric and Process. More...
Content Management and Collaboration Converge on E-Learning
Though this article is loosely written, enought of the meaning comes through to give a glimpse of a project at the University of Michigan that seeks to combine content management (especially of video assets) and e-learning. More...
The Impact of Schooling
The point of this article is to emphasize the difference between 'schooling' and 'learning' and the author, Jay Cross, does do with vigour, bringing to bear two of my favorite (and oft-visited) themes of e-learning: networks and surfing. More...
Asian Journal of Distance Education
Just launched, volume 1, number 1 of the Asian Journal of Distance Education contains articles by Fred Lockwood, Tony Bates and Kinshuk, among others. Unfortunately, only abstracts are posted online, which means you have to purchase the dead tree version if you actually want to read any of these words of wisdom. More...
E-Learning Standardization in Japan and Singapore: An Informal Report
Norm Friesen summarizes e-learning standards initiatives in eastern Asia following meetings with e-learning standards organizations in Asia: ALIC (Advanced Learning Infrastructure Consortium) of Japan, and the ECC (E-learning Competency Centre) of Singapore. He observes that the Japanese have developed expertise in collaborative learning while noting that in Singapore more attention is being paid to returns on the investment made in e-learning as the government shifts its focus toward biotechnology. More...
ARROW: Australian Research Repositories Online to the World
Released late last week, this project description outlines a plan for a network of repositories of academic content comprising e-prints, digital theses and electronic publishing. It looks like a good plan, and it's worth noting that in this project (as with most Australian projects) the technology development goes hand in hand with human development. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. The U.S. Department of Education is being sued for "illegally" delaying state authorization rules designed to help college students determine in which online university to enroll. More...
New E-Learning Tools Make It Easy For faculty and Students to Create Media-Rich Learning Resources
"We’ve built learning object tools that in turn build learning objects themselves," said Warren Scott. "By doing that, dozens if not hundreds of other people can create timelines and save threaded discussions, which are actually learning objects. This creates exponential growth in the number of re-usable learning objects that can be re-used and re-purposed in other courses by other faculty and students." Cool. More...
Trends for Distance Education: Getting the Big Picture for the Coming Decade
Distance-Educator.com carried this new inclusion to ERIC, though it might have been more appropriate to link to the original version from 1991. As it stands, this is a good paper that could have, with some judicious editing, become a very good paper, but the addition of five additional authors in the ERIC version seems if anything to have weakened, rather than improved, the writing (and it is certainly odd to see the now 6-person collective speaking in the first person singular). More...
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