The Perils of Cutbacks in Higher Education
I don't want to sound like Chicken Little, but can you see the crisis coming? It is still far away from a break point, however, the combination of declining funding and rising tuition is creating a situation which, like that of an overflowing dam, will burst 'all of a sudden' on the higher educational community. More...
All Over For Blogs?
Weblogs won't disappear because, of course, websites won't disappear. But the hype will ebb and I would say that the number of active blogs will be cut in half over the next six months to a year. Articles will start noticing the glut of abandoned blogs and the format will recede into the background. More...
Uni Staff PCs scanned for MP3s
Staff computers at the Queensland University of Technology are being scanned for MP3 files as a consequence of legal action undertaken by the music industry. Several Australian universities were also taken to court earlier this year and forced to give investigators access to networks and back-up tapes. More...
Providing eLearning Opportunities to Students and Adult Learners
I heard some talk about this project while I was in Portugal but it has been mostly below the radar. This article, though, is a nice summary of the Avicenna Virtual Campus, an e-learning bridge from Europe to the nations of North Africa. More...
Why I Infringe
Copyright legislation may be dry and boring but the topic holds sway over a range of human emotions. This strongly worded article captures some of this. More...
The Meaning of Technology
Arun-Kumar Tripathi picked this iten to run today, and though it's several years old, it still captures a common sentiment. And while I think that Albert Borgmann is right when he calls on people to restrain the influence of technology, I don't agree with the value system he proposes to adjudicate that moderation (and therein lies the dilemma). More...
Observing Quality in eLearning
Obviously we need some means of telling the difference between quality online learning content and that which is of, shall we say, lesser value. But is this the way to go about it. More...
E-poll Findings Show Flexible Learning is Here to Stay!
Australia's Flexible Learning Framework has been conducting a poll to evaluate the impact of the approach, and according to the feedback received, flexible learning is, as the headline says, here to stay. More...
Intelligence and Its Artifacts
In your thought piece for the day, Steve Talbott raises the question of what happens when we lose touch with the "originating intelligence" in electronic communications. The mind creates ideas, the ideas are translated into words, and these - tokens of our thoughts, not the throughts themselves - are sent into the ether. More...
RSS JournoFunnies
Tim Bray follows up the CNet article about the great RSS dust-up. Some good dialogue about what happens when journalists interview bloggers. And some good bits about the role of personalities in technology. More...
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