A Role for SPARC in Freeing the Refereed Literature

Two years ago, Stevan Harnad proposed that, instead of trying to replicate, in a low cost fashion, the existing system of online journals and subscriptions, we should scrap the system and turn to a form of self publishing. More...

The ASTD E-Learning Handbook

Jay Cross trolled this nifty little site in support of Allison Rossett's ASTD eLearning Handbook. Looks like a Jeopardy game (no questions, though, just answers - which is what I suppose people want). More...

What Will it Take for E-learning to Reach Potential Market Size?

Heh. This little list is exactly what e-learning vendors are not doing. What will it take. More...

Online Training in an Online World
You will want to have a look at this report - or the detailed executive summary, at least - because the survey itself is quite good and the results reveal trends within the online learning industry. I would not offer all of my support for the fifteen recommendations at the end, but only because they are vague, not misdirected. More...

E-learning, Online Learning, Web-based Learning, or Distance Learning
While readers will find this article interesting as an attempt at a taxonomy of some of the terminology employed in various forms of distributed learning, they should not take this article as the final word on the subject. More...

Safety Fears Limit Online Learning
Well, think this through. Would you keep students home from school because they might meet strangers on the street, catch a virus, hear foul language, or otherwise encounter some form of danger? Of course not (though you would try to ensure a safer neighbourhood). More...

Observations on Training 2002
The second good article in as many days posted to the ELearningLeaders group, this item is a summary of reactions to the Training 2002 Conference just held in Atlanta. More...

Standards for Quality Online Courses
Their summary says it best: "More than a year ago, MVU began developing rigorous standards to guide the design and evaluation of online course quality. Based on decades of research and the work of the best minds in the field of Instructional Design, we have recently completed a comprehensive set of standards that can now be used to design and evaluate online courses." Now the question is: do we need ASTD certification any more. More...

What Executives Must Know About E-learning
Good survey article that provides an executive level (read: simple and brief) summary of the reasons to consider e-learning and the best way to approach e-learning for the first time in a company. More...