Chief Learning Officer
After a great deal of publicity (I got an email every time a new editor or contributor was appointed), a new magazine, Chief Learning Officer, launched today. I've listed a couple of articles below. More...
Schools Begin Initial Journey With Laptops as Learning Tool
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...
Read My Weblog, Feed My Weblog
Read My Weblog, Feed My Weblog
It was only a matter of time, I suppose - and indeed, we could see this coming as people like Dave Pell wanted to turn their blogs (as Pell said) from a hobby to a business. More...
In Search of . . . Brain-Based Education
In Search of . . . Brain-Based Education
This item is three years old but it provides a good statement of the sort of objection I need to meet if I am to say that what the author calls "brain based" research is to have any bearing on education. More...
Free Full Text: FindArticles and MagPortal
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...
Open Learning Objects: The Case for Inner Metadata
Open Learning Objects: The Case for Inner Metadata
This is one of those papers that leaves you scratching your head. There's something there worth considering but the paper is long on describing the technology and short on explaining what the technology does. 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
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?
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
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...