Open Access to World-Class Knowledge
Overview article describing MIT's Open Courseware project, including some feedback on the initial release. More...
Open Access to World-Class Knowledge
Overview article describing MIT's Open Courseware project, including some feedback on the initial release. More...
Clique of Instant Messagers Expands Into the Workplace
I have been using instant messaging for years. Mostly I use it to keep in touch with home while I'm on the road, but I also have conversations with collaborators from around the world. Perhaps instant messaging is about to sweep though the workplace, as this article suggests. More...
Trends in Visual Arts Education
My view is that if you don't understand art, then you are much less likely to be able to think visually. In a text-based world this may seem like no great handicap, but the ability to communicate your ideas through pictures and diagrams is at least as important as being able to express yourself in text. But I digress. More...
Copyright Vs. Community in the Age of the Computer Networks
Address by Richard Stallman to the South by Southwest conference late last week. Some good points. More...
Untapped Networks
The subject of this interview, Columbia University sociologist Duncan Watts, offers some insights worth sharing about the nature of software and networks. The Mircosoft approach to software design, he argues, is flawed because it's centralized and homogeneous. More...
Authority Control: Definition and International Experiences
When I see the words "authority" and "control" in the title of a work, I want to run for the hills. Authority and control are the last thing we want to bring to the web; their perceived advantages would break the network beyond repair. More...
Social Software and the Politics of Groups
We have made software more and more usable for the individual, argues the author, because it's relatively easy to design for the single user. But we are increasingly using software to moderate group experiences, and here questions of usability are much more difficult. More...
E-Learning Policy Implications for K-12 Educators and Decision Makers
Good analysis of the state of e-learning in schools along with a number of policy recommendations. The thrust of the report is that while e-learning appears to be here to stay, more research is needed to assess its effectiveness and mechanisms are needed to help instructors using e-learning to communicate and implement their vision of learning online. More...
The Rise of Netpolitik: How the Internet Is Changing International Politics and Diplomacy
This is the sort of publication people working in net related fields should read on a regular basis. Not because they have anything to do with online learning or even the internet in particular, but because they help as an antidote against slipping into the rut of traditional thinking. More...
eLibrary to Provide Research Service to Microsoft Office 2003 Users
Pack up your research bags, put those learning projects on hold, wipe down the counters and lock the library doors. Microsoft is going to do it all for you. That's the message of this press release issued today by Alacritude, the company behind eLibrary. More...