Virtual Trader
As I've talked about learning environments in the past this is the sort of thing I've had in mind. Virtual Trader is a stock market simulation - it allows you to make investments and trade stocks in a simulated environment - no money risked. As you look at the home page, notice how educational resources (learning objects?) are embedded into the game as a way of helping plyers learn about the subject. More...
EVOnline 2002 - Webheads Community Event
Jean Michel Chaupart writes from Colombia: "Teresa Almeida d'Eça (who authored the Online Learning Environments website mentione here recently) teaches english in a high school in Portugal and she is a member of the "WEBHEADS" (me too), a community of practice for languages teachers/professors. And the 'Online Learning Environments'' list is 80% based on language teaching/learning with ICT." What's great is that I just received an email enquiry about where to find information on online language training, and as is so often the case, I don't know something like that off-hand but I just know it's out there. More...
Text Readability
Pat Lund describes the site: "It's an experiment in text readability that looks at alignment & case, font, contrast, and line length. If you click on one of the links to the expiraments, you have the option of either participating in the study and then seeing the results when you're finished, or just seeing the results right away." The sample size is pretty small (400 or so) but already the results are a little surprising. More...
Teaching History with Technology Newsletter
I spent a good part of my morning with this newsletter (I spent the rest of it writing a spam trapper for my discussion list). What gets me about this newsletter - and it's one of many I see like this - is that it lists resource after resource after resource, none of which are learning objects in any real sense, all of which are reusable (that's why they're in the newsletter), and all of which disappear from sight almost as soon as they're created, because we don't have a simple system like RSS for learning resources. More...
Reading between the Headlines
Nice article that sees the patterns in the links and observes, "higher education and scholarly inquiry sit at the nexus of four important factors: (1) communications technology; (2) the communications business; (3) content development; and (4) the business (or sale) of content." What does that mean? Everybody in content-based industries - and that includes education - will have to learn to live in a new reality. More...
Surveying the Digital Landscape: Evolving Technologies 2004
Survey, via summaries of five white papers, of five technologies for the coming year. spam management, legal P2Ps, learning objects, nomadicity, and the convergence of libraries, digital repositories and web content management. The technologies are depicted as though they were onrushing freight trains - you can try to avoid them, but they're coming no matter what. More...
Edupodder.Com
Man, things move fast in this field. No content up yet, but you can see where this is going just by reading the name - online audio educational content. More...
Our Code is Falling to Pieces. Doug McGill on the Fading Mystique of an Objective Press
This article is unpleasant reading for anyone who thinks that the system works, but now that we have blogging standing as an alternative to journalism, we are beginning to see more clearly where the system is collapsing in on itself. "It's a matter of routine that reporters feel or know they are being lied to," writes the author. More...
ERIC gets $34.6 million upgrade
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), a repository of 16 separate clearinghouses for educational journals and abstracts, gets a new lease on life with this multimillion contract to a private agency. More...
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