MIT OpenCourseWare Pilot
MIT's much talked about open courseware project launched in pilot form yesterday and became the lead in just about every elearning newsletter today. I spent several hours yesterday browsing through the site and learned - among other things - that MIT's Introduction to Philosophy course as taught in 2002 is exactly the same as the one I took at the University of Calgary in 1981. More...
Interview with Bob Boiko
Good interview with Bob Boiko, author of Content Management Bible. Worth reading especially is Boiko's discussion of "context management" - "I've often heard that a content management system destroys context, as its sole purpose is to create neutral information that is free of context. More...
Information Architecture: Learning How to Classify
I have come to the conclusion that it is virtually impossible to classify documents. This would come as a surprise to librarians, who have been classifying documents for years. But librarians, who handle larger documents, can manage with a relatively coarse system. More...
Extending the Pedagogy of Threaded-Topic Discussions
During last month's Net*Working 2002 online conference I saw once again why I dislike threaded discussions so much. By fragmenting and sorting the comments, threaded discussions create a body of content that is almost impossible to read. More...
The Next Killer App in Education: An Interview with Michigan's Carl Berger
It is always best, they say, to keep your eye on the final objective as you slog your way through the jungles. More...
Bringing Affective Behavior to e-Learning
Today I'm pleased to present four items from a particularly strong issue of The Technology Source. This first article looks at the need for and techniques for creating immediacy in an online classroom. More...
Sixteen Steps to a Renewed Corporate Intranet
Don't let the term "corporate intranet" throw you off. This article contains (mostly) good advice about the design and maintenance of any information system (I would include most online learning applications in this definition). I like the way the article looks at the problem of upgrading an old, out of date and largely unused information system. More...
Weblogs in Education - Edublogs?
Nice bit of digging to ferret out most of the interesting work on weblogs in education. OLDaily readers will have seen many of the articles listed, but there are some examples of weblogs in action that are new to me. More...
Seizing the Moment: Scientists' Authorship Rights in the Digital Age
This is a good paper that takes a sober (and sometimes frustratingly unbiased) look at the rights, interests and responsibilities of various stakeholders with respect to copyright in academic publishing. While not proposing a specific model, it suggests that all stakeholders would benefit from increased accessibility to published materials. More...
Post from DEOS that demonstrates considerable insight into the topic of distance learning styles. The author reports on some research results, including from his doctoral dissertation a couple of years ago. More...
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