GeoLearning Integrates PrimeLearning.com?s Library of Online Business Skills Training Courses
Normally I wouldn't carry a press release like this, but this is typical of items that cross my desk every day and readers should be aware of this trend. The outline is simple: PrimeLearning.com has developed about 300 hours of AICC- and SCORM-compliant online business and professional development content, and this content has been integrated into GeoLearning?s learning management system. More...

'The Future of Ideas': Protecting the Old With Copyright Law
The New York Times meets Lawrence Lessig. This review of 'The Future of Ideas' is a bit less than kind, characterizing Lessig as an idealist and his book as a manifesto, or, more accurately, what would be a manifesto if only it were "short, rousing and to the point." While the reviewer seems to admit that Lessig has a point - that copyright lawyers are stifling innovation and creativity on the internet - he seems to feel that the book misses its mark. More...

Microsoft Device to Bridge TV, PC

I've concluded that Bill Gates (or someone high up in Microsoft development) reads my web page. It's hard to conclude otherwise when Microsoft's new Mira platform contains almost completely the features I've been describing for the PADs (Personal Access Devices) students will use in online learning. More...

Why Projects Fail - and What You Can Do About It
A nice article that should be read by people managing online learning projects, especially large scale projects where a complex deliverable must satisfy an external client. So many institutions plan the project and then turn the development team loose, expecting a spectacular 'launch' where all the features of the fully functioning solution are unveiled. Bad plan. More...

Community Building as a Core Intranet Value

Another find from this week's eLearningPost, here we have another analysis of why the web is different from other media (and why the web is giving traditional businesses all sorts of headaches). More...

Understanding the Web as Media
eLearningPost digs up this nifty analysis of what media companies are doing so wrong on the net (and why they are failing). And it is because they are thinking of the web as like TV, or like magazines... but the web isn't a publishing medium. More...

KM and Human Nature
I ask you, when's the last time you saw a water cooler in an office? Much less people standing around the water cooler exchanging tacit knowledge? OK, how about in organizations like mine, where the bulk of the staff is in an office 1000 miles away? Or even on the typical universitry campus where most of the people you work with are on another floor or in another building. More...

Observations of Behaviour and Processes
Good column from Elliot Masie in which he analyzes his own online study habits (I often think self-reflective assessment is among the best - if you want to learn what students want when they study online, study online and ask yourself what you want). I especially like Masie's browse method for taking courses... start the course, and if it isn't right for you, quit. More...

Utah Student Defends Handling of AIM Security Flaw
This article raises more questions than it answers about how researchers should approach security flaws in software. The outlines of the story are straightforward: a student found a security hole in AOL's instant messenger, notified the company, was ignored, then widely publicized the breach. More...

Public Money, Private Code
If the internet were invented in a university research lab today, would it be allowed to exist? This interesting article argues that the code would be locked behind a proprietary set of private applications, and consequently, would never have become the worldwide phenomenon it is today. More...