College Questioning Site's Link
Of course I wouldn't say that my commentary in Thursday's OLDaily was the key, but it appears that administrators at UCSD are now reconsidering their decision to order the removal of links to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). More...
Measures of Learning in Higher Education
Measures of Learning in Higher Education
This article never takes you too deeply into the world of assessment and evaulation (but just deep enough to tell you the difference between them, which is deep enough for some of us). More...
Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on the Ownership of Intellectual Property Rights
Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on the Ownership of Intellectual Property Rights
The original report from the Cambridge Council and General Board recommending that the university assert copyright ownership. More...
Campaign for Cambridge Freedoms
Campaign for Cambridge Freedoms
Dissenting academic staff at Cambridge have launched a website opposing proposals by the university to assert ownership over faculty work. More...
A Case to Define the Digital Age
A Case to Define the Digital Age
Survey of the legal issues around the current challenge to the copyright term extension act in the United States. The case, led by copyright activist Lawrence Lessig, alleges that the extension will not foster the creation of new work (since the creators being protected are long dead). More...
The Digital Challenge: Are You Prepared?
The Digital Challenge: Are You Prepared?
This KPMG report lays it on the line: "media companies are focusing too much on encryption and other defensive technologies while failing to develop proactive strategies that recognize and leverage their online intellectual property assets." More...
Email Newsletters Pick Up Where Websites Leave Off
Email Newsletters Pick Up Where Websites Leave Off
Validated. Jakob Nielsen likes email newsletters and says that "users have highly emotional reactions to newsletters... you have an ongoing relationship with them." So much so that many people won't unsubscribe even when they stop reading the newsletter. More...
Why Salary Bonus and Other Incentives Fail to Meet Their Objectives
Why Salary Bonus and Other Incentives Fail to Meet Their Objectives
This is interesting. We read almost constantly about the need to motivate online learners. I have always had my doubts about this strategy - as I said at NLII last January, maybe the problem is that you're trying to get them to do something they don't want to do. More...
Conference Proceedings - Online Learning 2002
Conference Proceedings - Online Learning 2002
Still more from Online learning 2002 - this page contains dozens of handouts (or slide presentations) from the sessions. More...
Canadian Companies Rock at Online Learning 2002
Canadian Companies Rock at Online Learning 2002
More coverage of Online learning 2002 in Anaheim. This article, replete wih links to Canadian e-learning companies, makes the astonishing point that fully 30 percent of the exhibitors at the show were Canadian. More...