MIT’s Double-Secret Hidden Agenda
I'm not sure that the agenda - getting other universities to put their course materials online - was such a secret, but it offers a bit of a hook into this account of the OpenCourseWare project. More...
IDEO: Stanford Center for Interactive Learning
Most of the places I've worked - including my current location - have been really badly designed for any sort of academic work. Even new buildings seem to focus on long, narrow hallways into which people disappear into their offices. Not that I dislike offices - I do, and I wish I had one, because people need their privacy. More...
Edubabble From Ontario
Nice commentary from Jay Cross which is, if anything, too kind to the Organization for Quality Education, an organization that is, as he says, "a group of Ontario citizens up in arms over the poor quality of their public schools." Cross quite rightly criticizes this group for reliance on buzzwords, the use of straw man arguments, and unthinking aherence to a dogma. More...
Online Communities 'are old-skool' says Amy Jo
George Siemens picked up this item citing Amy Jo Kim, known for a book about online communities, suggesting that the wave of the future is centered around social networks, buddy lists and blogs. Of course, this is a change only if you felt previously that online communities were top-down creations, which while characteristic of some accounts (such as hers) is not universally believed. More...
The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
What is the ideal size for an online group? According to this item, somewhere in the range of 45-50 people. It's an interesting article, looking at group size in primates, weblog analyses, Ultima Online guild sizes, and more. More...
More Firefox Search Plugins
If you use Firefox as your web browser (and you should), you may have seen the search field in the upper right. You can add your own search engines to this list by placing the search file and image to the searchplugins directory of Firefox. Brilliant. You can get an Edu_RSS search plugin here: search file and image. More...
Publishing And Delivering Video On The Web With Flash
I'm so busy today, trying to repair my referrer system, recover from a cold, learn French, upgrade DLORN, wrap up my DRM paper, see through the completion of eduSource DRM, exercise, write two papers and a column by the end of the month (and a presentation for Monday, and two more for next week), unpack from my Toronto trip, head for Quebec City tomorrow... so today's issue is a little short, OK. More...
Tribe.net Empowers Members to Open and Distribute Content
One of the more established social networking sites, Tribe.Net, announced today the launch of RSS feeds for its 13,000 affinity groups (or 'tribes'). More...
E-Learning Provides Answers
Outline of a talk by a Namibian government minister Joel Kaapanda touting the benfits of online learning for the education of local government officials, part of coverage of an Electronic Distance Training in African Local Governments on Sustainable Development conference (EDITOSIA). More...
Universia, pionera del RSS
Some days you just say, this is as it should be, and other days, you just go "wow". This is a "wow" day. As Rebecca Rippin writes to me from Spain, "I thought you may like to know that this week Universia, the Hispanic world's largest university portal (over 700 partner universities spreading across Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Puerto Rico) has included RSS in its elearning section... This means that new electronic courses of over 700 hispanic universities are now available via RSS and that Universia are our first converts!!" This press release is in Spanish; or you can read Google's English translation. More...
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