Lead Balloons, Stone Canoes, and Learning Styles
This paper says a great deal of what I would like to say on the subject of learning styles, and draws essentially the same conclusion I have drawn with respect to online learning. More...

Learning Objects: Contexts and Connections
I would have preferred to link to individual articles, but the publishers have chosen to distribute this book, consisting of about a dozen articles as a single 1.1 megabye PDF file. Oh well. It's worth the time to download, though: there is some good and important writing here. More...

The Trouble with Out-of-the-Box Thinking
I'm so glad this has been said: telling people to "think outside the box" doesn't work. It's not a question of thinking out of the box, it's a question of seeing the solution in some other box entirely. More...

Home Is No Place For School
Brief statement of some of the major objections to home schooling. The major points: first, many parents are not qualified to teach, especially when students reach higher grade levels. And second, students that study at home miss out on the non-academic values of schools, such as socialization and citizenship. More...

Important Learning Must Occur in Groups
The link to this item is messed up, but you can get to it from the blog's main page, to which I link here. The principle, expressed in the title, is largely derived from observations about language. More...

We Media: How Audiences Are Shaping the Future of News And Information
Newspapers have been struggling under a web onslaught in recent years as readers have taken the business of reporting the news - and just about everything else - into their own hands. More...

School Children's Moose Lesson Has Tearful Ending
Not online learning, but this item is so sad I just have to pass it along. The lesson is this: if a moose wanders into your schoolyard, and if you take advantage of this to teach children all about moose habits, then they will not be distracted when, at the end of it all, you shoot the moose. More...

Sizing the Opportunity
This interesting survey released by the Sloan Consortium indicates that more than a million and a half students in the U.S. are taking online courses and that, given the choice, students will enroll in online learning. Additionally, questions about the effectiveness of online learning are disapprearing: in the future, the questions will examine how online learning is (or can be) better than traditional learning. More...

Tough Times, Tough Choices
Because I have talked of a 'budget simulator' on numerous occasions, this item - picked up on elearningpost and elsewhere - caught my eye. And showed me how a learning simulation ought not to work. The idea is that players can simulate the choices needed to balance a state budget. But the 'budget' displayed is appaling, containing only five line items, most of which are vague. More...

CDs and DVDs are 'Doomed'
Having seen some of the new MP3 players - flat white boxes the size of a credit card that will hold your entire music collection - the premise of this article seems irrefutable: CDs and DVDs are doomed. More...