Simulation May be The E-learning Killer App

I believe that simulations are important to e-learning and have been touting them for many years. I've even built a few. More...

Learning Solutions - Learning Objects: Behind the Buzz

Good utility grade overview of learning objects intended for the general (read: executive) reader. I like the example of learning object metadata contgained in this article. More...

Schools Begin Initial Journey With Laptops as Learning Tool
After spending a whack of money (and enduring much criticism), Maine's laptop program begins today as the state provides every seventh grader with a laptop. More...

Free Full Text: FindArticles and MagPortal
Reviw of two online article search and retrieval services, FindArticles and MagPortal. Though the reviews are generally positive, the author cautions that "these two free full-text resources are not going to be the starting point of choice" because of their limited holdings - 500 and 150 periodicals respectively. More...

PALO Language Home Page

PALO is a proposal of Educative Modelling Language to describe and design learning content and learning environments at a high level of abstraction. More...

Experts Question SCORM's Pedagogic Value
Scott Wilson's summary of the 'Clarity or Calamity' article. He points out that standards bodies have been working on pedagogical issues for some time. In addition to EML, the PALO language developed in Spain and TeachML (Targeteam) from Germany's University of the Armed Forces both use ontologies to build semantic networks of learning objects. More...

SCORM: Clarity or Calamity?
This article pulls no punches as it lines up some of SCORM's loudest critics and lets the cannons roar. But what is really surprising is that it took so long for this article to see the light of day: I heard Merrill saying much the same thing at NLII last January and Lahanas has been volumous in his Yahoo group. More...

Superarchives Could Hold All Scholarly Output
Useful article looking at alternatives to scholarly publication in journals. The bulk of the article is devoted to what are called superarchives. These are essentially collections of materials hosted by a single university and intended to contain that institution's professors' research output. More...

How to Design Recyclable Learning Objects
Some good points in this cynical look at learning objects. Promoters of the concept need to worry when it is observed, with some justification, that "content is harder to recycle than design." More...