The Devil is in the Details: Converting Classroom Courses to E-Learning
Nice overview of the sorts of things you need to consider when converting a traditional classroom course to online learning delivery. Realistic in its depiction and supported with links to related Learning Circuits resources, the best thing about this article is its observation that no content survives the transition intact. More...
The Power of the First Person
On a personal note... why is OLDaily so much better than the other online learning newsletters (oh? as there some doubt here? *grin*)? To me, the big difference is that I do more than report the news... I report my reactions and I do so in a personal way. More...
Open Source Schools Projects Work Together to Provide Alternative to Microsoft Offer
You may recall that Microsoft volunteered to donate $1 billion worth of software to American schools as part of its antitrust offer. Critics contented that the offer would merely consolidate Microsoft's already considerable hold on the education market. More...
Concerts to Raise Money for Battle Against Record Companies
Major publishers and record labels - such as the RIAA - present themselves as fighting for the rights of creative artists. So why are some big name acts - including Elton John, No Doubt, Billy Joel, Stevie Nicks, Weezer, Dixie Chicks, Ozzy Osbourne and the Eagles - staging a series of five benefit concerts to fund a fight against the recording industry? Because artists, they say, are not getting their share of the royalties. More...
Sequential Analysis of Group Interactions in Threaded Discussions
Following up on a post I made to DEOS - see http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0112&L=deos-l&O=A&P=14622 - Allan Jeong introduced readers to a tool he developed to analyze interactions on discussion boards with regard to critical thinking. More...
Text-E
This one comes to me via elearningpost... text-e claims to be "the first entirely virtual symposium dedicated to investigating the impact of the Web on reading, writing and the diffusion of knowledge," a claim, I think, that people in the field would find a bit astonishing in this day and age. More...
Education, Innovation & The Internet: Nobel Laureates Look To The Future
A survey of 71 Nobel laureates says that "universal access to the Internet would bring about enormous benefits and improvements to the educational system because of the Internet?s unparalleled ability to spread knowledge and disseminate information." The internet would also have helped them conduct their research more quickly and it will play a key role in improving the overall quality of life. More...
Advanced Distributed Learning Plugfest 5
Plugfest is an event where companies who are moving toward SCORM compatibility (and who had the cash to register) test their applications for interoperability. Participants included 30 Learning Management Systems vendors, 23 authoring tool vendors and 50 learning content providers. More...
Interface Innovation: The Future of Information Access
Nice little article surveying five innovative ways of handling information, providing examples (and links) to companies who are creating alternative desktop interfaces, automatic file sorting tools, automatic summary and metadata generation, pictures over words, and computers that recognize when you're feeling blue. More...
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