E-Learning On The Fly
I don't agree necessarily with putting the learning on a hand-held - I mean, where's the need in a fast food restaurant, where there are plenty of locations for a fixed installation with a larger screen. More...

Online Learning a Virtual Revolution
"I have to have a piece of chalk in my hand to make any sense, the way Thomas Aquinas did 800 years ago. If I can't see the faces, I can't know anything about them." So says a philosophy professor at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland who, despite his learning, does not yet fathom the many dimensions of knowledge. More...

Observing Quality in eLearning
Obviously we need some means of telling the difference between quality online learning content and that which is of, shall we say, lesser value. But is this the way to go about it. More...

EdNA Online
Australians have something they can be proud of today as EdNA unveails its lush new website. I cannot gush enough, nor can I write enough about it in this tiny space. So I will quote from the press release, and trust me, I will be coming back to this topic. More...

Elearning, By Any Other Name...
Discussion of the idea that a person could learn simply by using Google. Clark Quinnresponds, "I'm concerned that someone's going to try to push the view that a factoid dribble is an elearning solution. Which might prevent people from working to solve the tough components of the problem: context model, content model, user model." Fair enough. I clarify my position in this dialogue and several people chime in about the definition of e-learning. More...

How Long Does it Take? Estimation Methods for Developing E-Learning
How long does it take to build a road? A moment's reflection tells you that, in a certain sense, this is a pretty nonsensical question: it depends on the type of road you want to build and how far you want to go (it also depends on the weather, the terrain and labour negotiations). It's pretty much the same for e-learning. More...

Top eLearning Reference Sources
Seb remarks that I will be pleased to be cited twice in Jay Cross's list of the fifteen places he heads to first for e-learning news. More...

MELCOE
Just opened, Macquarie University’s E-learning Centre of Excellence (MELCOE) has embarked in its new role as the stewards of Australia's COLIS system. 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...

Mind of a Teacher
Steven Pinker talks about reaction to his online course, offers reflections on contemporary pedagogy ("Too often, he says, teaching is based on presenting and analysing flaws and contradictions in research data"), and levels some scathing criticism of academic publishers ("[Journal publishers] add virtually zero value, don't pay editors or writers, and make a fortune. More...