Freeing Computers in Schools: Free Software in Education
Via EdTechPost, this link (and this one) points to the important role being played by free educational software worldwide. More...
U.S. Spends The Most, But Gets 'F' In Education
U.S. Spends The Most, But Gets 'F' In Education
I knew there were problems, but I can honestly say I didn't realize it was this bad south of the border. The number that will be played in U.S. papers - 19th among OECD coutries in education - doesn't mean much, as the competition includes highly developed countries such as Japan, Korea, Canada and Finland, among others, and these rankings would be much worse if they included performance in history and geography. More...
WSIL meets RSS
WSIL meets RSS
WSIL (Web Service Inspection Language) is an XML format that describes the services offered by a website. It performs the same function as UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration of Web Services), but while UDDI is centralized, like a phone book, WSIL is decentralized, like a network of business cards. More...
The Virtualization of University Education: Concepts, Strategies and Business Models
The Virtualization of University Education: Concepts, Strategies and Business Models
This paper delivers exactly what the title promises: a comprehensive outline of various concepts of virtual learning, an overview of strategies (including organizational and management strategies), and business models. More...
Hey (Hic)... This Merlot is Tasting Better
Hey (Hic)... This Merlot is Tasting Better
Following a critical post at CogDogBlog, there is movement at MERLOT on RSS and Alan Levine is moving the "bad dog" meter a bit. Be sure to follow the link to the discussion. Not that MERLOT is without doubts and hestitations. More...
Community Learning Networks Initiative
Community Learning Networks Initiative
For those of you in Canada, The Office of Learning Technologies is inviting Expressions of Interest under the Community Learning Networks (CLN) initiative. CLN supports cost-shared community-based pilot projects. More...
Why VoIP is Music to Kazaa's Ear
Why VoIP is Music to Kazaa's Ear
We have a not-so-quiet revolution in the making here. Voice Over IP (VoIP) services have not really taken off, partially because of bandwidth limitations and partly because of the cost. There's no real incentive to use your computer as a telephone if it's not really going to save you anything. Enter Kazaa (yes, the file-sharing company) with Skype. More...
Edu_RSS Topics
Edu_RSS Topics
As promised, more from Edu_RSS. Today we release the Edu_RSS topics page, a set of subject-specific RSS feeds available in multiple output formats (four RSS versions, HTML, Javascript with SOAP and Atom/Echo available shortly). The idea of Edu_RSS topics is that the input from 130 or so RSS feeds is aggregated and organized according to topics. More...
Les universités françaises et les grands établissements
Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse
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84029 AVIGNON CEDEX 1
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Sur le Web
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