The Next Step in Scholarly Communication: Is the Traditional Journal Dead?
If the traditional journal is not dead, a suggested by the title of this essay, it is certainly being pressed. The author adopts a generally positive stance toward online publications and suggests that te nature of academic articles themselves will change as a result of the new medium. More...

Extensible Repository Resource Locators (ERRoLs) for OAI Identifiers
In my article on RSS listed here yesterday I wrote, "It is only a matter of time before the RSS and OAI worlds merge." Today, Jeff Young wrote me to say, "You might be interested to learn that our ERRoL service does exactly that (among other things.) Any OAI repository registered in the OAI Registry at UIUC can be accessed as an RSS feed. More...

News on Demand
Busy day - shortish newsletter today. This first item is an introduction to RSS with good sets of comparative links to useful resources, such as generators and feed readers. More...

A Contribution to Defining the Term Definition
I frequently become impatient when people want to begin by defining things (for example, 'learning objects'). Not because I don't think we should be clear, but because the process of definition then commences with little or no reflection on what constitutes a definition. More...

InSITE 2004 Papers By Research Area
Papers from the upcoming InSITE conference (Informing Science and Information Technology Education) are now available for free download online. A lot of good stuff here - it looks like a fascinating conference. I have picked three papers for today's OLDaily, below (though I could have picked a dozen). More...

Current IT Issues: 2004
Somebody asked me the other day to name the three major issues facing e-learning administrators. I replied: copyright, technology selection, and staff training. Now my point of view is different from the panel of administrators surveyed for this EDUCAUSE study, but the differences are start. More...

Developing and Creatively Leveraging Hierarchical Metadata and Taxonomy
I agree that taxonomies are useful, and this article provides a nice description with examples. But developers of taxonomies need to be clear about what they are doing, because there is never a single best taxonomy for any given domain. In the example in the article, for example, toys are divided between 'educational' and 'plush. More...

Teach to Learn - The Next Big Thing
One of the more interesting things I learned from John Stuart Mill's biography: homeschooled by his father, James Mill, John was required in turn to teach his younger siblings. While he gained a great deal from the experience, he reports in the Autobiography, his younger siblings fared less well. More...

Online Storytelling
Delivered in the context of the EU-funded project ACTeN, this report provides an overview and analysis of the educational use of storytelling. I like the wide variety of examples used to illustrate the core themes, including corporate storytelling in the consumer oriented industry, public services and pedagogic institutions, such as museums, and political movements and organizations. More...

Government's Response to the Recommendations of the Three Research Related Reviews
The Australian government has posted its response to three recent studies: Evaluation of Knowledge and Innovation Reforms Consultation Report; Review of Closer Collaboration Between Universities and Major Publicly Funded Research Agencies; and the Final Report for the National Research Infrastructure Taskforce. More...