Game Studies
The first issue of Game Studies launches, an online journal dedicated to the study of computer games. There is a strong connection between gaming and education, a connection suggested by several of the articles in this issue looking at the development of story lines in online games. More...

A Field Guide to Learning Objects
It's bad enough trying to read this bulky PDF file on the 24K connection available to me here in Memramcook. But it's worse when I go through the agony - stalling everything else on my computer in the process (Acrobat Reader is a resource hog) - only to find that the content is not what I expected. More...

Video Games Stimulate Learning
This BBC item in today's elearningpost is accompanied by a BBC article from last November headlined "Learning games do not boost results." Perhaps the authors of elearningpost were using cut-and-paste to make a wry comment (I wish they would use their keyboard to make wry comments, but that's another issue). More...

SCORM Dynamic Appearance Model
SCORM v1.2 does not define the separation of appearance from content. This paper proposes a method for separating the navigation and the appearance (look and feel) elements from the underlying content in SCORM. This approach, named SCORM Dynamic Appearance Model, introduces a new paradigm for e-Learning content development that integrates the work currently in progress on sequencing and navigation. More...

Click Lit Hm.
This is a technology that looks like it will be neatly in place just at about the same time it becomes obsolete. The idea of publishing on demand has been around for a while - I can remember Xerox pitching it hard about four years ago - but the technologies needed to make it actually work are only now coming into place. More...

ICT Advice
A new service launched this month to provide help and tools for classroom teachers, senior managers, subject co-ordinators and ICT co-ordinators in the UK. An interesting approach: I liked the "ask an expert" feature where each topic is supported with a panel of people ready with answers. More...

Learning Pool

Learning Pool is a good example of the sort of think I have been calling 'network learning. More...

21st Century Literacy in a Convergent Media World
This is a major white paper sponsored by Bertelsmann and AOL Time Warner as a discussion document for the 21st Centeury Literacy Conference being held this week in Berlin. It is required reading for policy makers in learning, human resources and government. It is one of the few papers in any of these fields to explicitly make the connection between new forms of learning and new forms of government. And it represents not only a strong grasp of the potential new technology embodies but also some of the decisions administrators will have to make in order to realize that potential. More...

Introduction to FLE2 Pedagogy
I mentioned FLE3, the Finnish open source learning management system, on this list a few weeks ago. With this item I'd like to draw your attention to FLE2's pedagogical model, one that is centered by a distributed network of expertise. FLE2 is based on a problem solving approach, but I don't see why the approach could not be more widely applicable as an instance of whyat I am now calling 'network learning'. More...