Text Message Essay Baffles British Teacher
"My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 :- kids FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc." So began an English essay submitted in instant messaging format by a student in Britain. More...
Different Learners, Same Learning
One thing leads to another, and... in this nice commentary, Clark Quinn calls on designers to think again about the concept of individualized learning. More...
Picking Apart Pick-A-Prof
The author of this article asks whether the popular professor ranking service, Pick-A-Prof, helps students find good professors "or just easy A's." It seems to me that this is the wrong question to ask. If what motivates students in their selection of courses (and hence, the allocation of the bulk of their learning time) is "easy A's" then the system - not the student, who is just playing the ropes - is deeply flawed. More...
Back to the Oral Tradition Through Skywriting at the Speed of Thought
This is a light romp through the history of thought and communication, looking at the present evolution of email as representative of an oral tradition that has its origins in communual story-telling and modern incarnations as transitory as sky-writing. More...
The Reusability Paradox
This odd article, apparently written by David Wiley (but just as apparently credited to the The Reusability, Collaboration, and Learning Troupe at Utah State University) is intended to cast doubt on the usefulness of small (and thus more resuable) objects: "the more reusable a learning object is, the harder its use is to automate. Identically, the less reusable a learning object is, the easier its use is to automate." Why. More...
New-Model Scholarship: How Will It Survive?
Search through the Internet Archive and you get exactly none of my work. Mine is what is described as New-Model Scholarship, "the variety of Web sites and other desktop digital objects that faculty and graduate students are creating that fall somewhere short of 'published' but are worthy of access into the future." Yet it seems destined to disappear from view when my academic career ends. More...
Overcoming the Presentation Mosaic Effect of Multi-Use Sharable Content Objects
Albert Ip expresses dissatisfaction with the solution to the SCORM cross-domain problem presented in the Engelbrecht article and outlines an approach which has been used in Australia that has successfully overcome this problem. More...
Maybe it links to learning styles and maybe it doesn't. I don't know. But certainly it links to learning. Like the author, I am also an introvert. More...
Lawmakers Demand That Colleges Crack Down on Illegal File Sharing
The U.S. House of Representatives is urging college and university officials to "get tougher" with students who share files online. "The way to really convince students that illegal file sharing is wrong is to expel or prosecute them." University officials are hesitant, not surprisingly. More...
L’âge fait partie des critères de discrimination reconnus par la loi, pourtant une majorité des recruteurs prennent en compte ce facteur dans leur choix de candidats. Des caractéristiques sont associées à la jeunesse, positives et négatives, avec plus souvent une idée de négatif. Plus...
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