Indian University Plans Dramatic Expansion of Distance Education via the Airwaves
Sometimes things come in clusters... despite the pessimism expressed in the previous article today, big plans are afoot for a dramatic expansion of distance learning in India. More...
Is E-learning a Flop in India?
This article is vague and probably more expressive of a sentiment than any particular objection. "E-learning today is facing the same dilemma and acceptance problems that other Net applications are encountering. The Net has grown at an incredible speed in the past decade mainly because of unreasonably high expectations created by Internet and dotcom enthusiasts and protagonists. More...
Online Students Don't Fare as Well as Classroom Counterparts, Study Finds
OK, here is why I don't frequently report that "this study said this" or "that study said that" - here we have a case where students in an online version of a class did more poorly than students in the in-class version. Fine, no problem. More...
Featured Genius Interview with Murray Goldberg of Silicon Chalk
OK, one of the worst user interfaces I've had to deal with in some time, and because it's Flash, I can't send you a direct URL to the page I want to describe (are you reading this Macromedia?)... but I have to send you this link because it's important. The site is called Cool Genius and is worth taking a look. The article is, as the title suggests, an interview with Murray Goldberg. To read the article don't bother trying to click on the name of the article or anywhere inside the pop-up describing the article... click on the little picture on the lower left hand side of the page. More...
Take the Online Instructors' Battle of the Browser (I use Netscape 6.2 and grumble when a site makes me use Internet Explorer). I love online polls (this one will send you the results by email, and with any luck, won't send you too much spam. More...
Open Journal System
The Open Journal System is a nice piece of software that provides simple tool for the online publication of academic papes. OJS assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing. More...
12 Kinds of Knowledge Workers
George Siemens picked up this little item for elearnspace. There are some language and formatting issues, and I'm not sure I agree with this list (the categorizations are either too broad or too narrow, I'm not sure which), but it's worth the minute it will take you to read. More...
Information Superhighway Has Potholes and Pitfalls for High Schools
Journalists sometimes like to be cute, and this sometimes results in the mangling of meaning. More...
Collaborative Representations: Supporting Face to Face and Online Knowledge-building Discourse
It took me a couple of attempts to get the gist of this article (which I attribute to the use of a two-column PDF format, terrible for screen reading). But the main idea is to explore how the visual representation of information and online collaboration can be combined into a single system. More...
Linkages Between Secondary and Post-secondary Vocational Education and Training in China and Australia
As the title suggests, this book length PDF compares vocational education in the two countries. Perhaps the most telling difference is that the system in Australi is tied more closely to desired outcomes, while China's is based on a system of linkages. More...
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