Today's newsletter comes to you live from the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE) conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Yes, that means some more snapshots in a day or two. More...
13 février 2018
13 février 2018
Battle of the Online Payment Systems
Battle of the Online Payment Systems
This is one for the business managers, a discussion of competing payment schemes on the web, looking mostly at services such as PayPal and BillPoint. There is some discussion of using peer-to-peer technology to manage online payment, an approach that I think offers more chances of success. More...
13 février 2018
NETg Creates Software Laboratories To Certify Compatibility
NETg Creates Software Laboratories To Certify Compatibility
Another entry into the standards compliance certification game as Netg - part of the Thomson Corporation - announces the creation of two labs to test compliance of their courseware with certain "preferred" learning management systems. More...
13 février 2018
Global Universities: Sowing the Seeds of the Future, or Hanging On To The Past?
Global Universities: Sowing the Seeds of the Future, or Hanging On To The Past?
The author concludes, "Universities that hang on to an elitist concept of higher education are unlikely to be those that can successfully sow the seeds of a future of mass access, providing millions of people with the intellectual and employment opportunities they are currently denied," and thereby possibly explains some of the difficulties encountered by such enterprises as Universitas 21 (documented recently in OLDaily). More...
13 février 2018
Outcomes of Conference
Outcomes of Conference
Major outcomes of the Educational Modelling Language (EML) conference organized by the Open University of the Netherlands included: a mapping of the relations between EML � IMS � SCORM, a preliminary architecture for an EML design, authoring and CMS, a UML component model for this preliminary architecture, an identification of users, a prototype design for the user interface, and agreement on business models. More...
13 février 2018
OUNL EML and standards
Short overviuew article describing the Education Modelling Language (EML) standards. More...
13 février 2018
Online Drop Rates Revisited
IO once signed up for a psychology course by distance simply for the purpose of obtaining a plastic model of a human brain. It need not be stated that I did not complete the course work. Does this constitute academic failure on my part? Hardly. More...
13 février 2018
The End of the Course as We Know It
The End of the Course as We Know It
Good article that traces how the use of learning objects is redefining learning delivery, as evidenced by this perspective: "A course should fit the learner's needs, the skills required and their learning style. More...
13 février 2018
Toward a Distributed Learning Object Repository Network
Toward a Distributed Learning Object Repository Network
PowerPoint slides (1.47 megabytes) of my keynote address today at LearnTec - http://www.learntec.ca - in Miramichi. What this presentation includes that some of my previous postings don't are diagrams illustrating how I think a distributed learning object repository network should be structured. More...
13 février 2018
Defend your WLAN
One of the knocks against wireless local area networks (WLANs) is that network security is a bit loose. As a result, a number of companies have developed tools to close your network data against intruders. More...
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