E-learning, Online Learning, Web-based Learning, or Distance Learning
While readers will find this article interesting as an attempt at a taxonomy of some of the terminology employed in various forms of distributed learning, they should not take this article as the final word on the subject. More...

A Field Guide to Learning Objects
It's bad enough trying to read this bulky PDF file on the 24K connection available to me here in Memramcook. But it's worse when I go through the agony - stalling everything else on my computer in the process (Acrobat Reader is a resource hog) - only to find that the content is not what I expected. More...

TOOL: The Open Opinion Layer

A fascinating concept. From the article: "This article explores the development of a distributed open opinion layer, which is given the generic name of TOOL. More...

After the Dot-Bomb: Getting Web Information Retrieval Right This Time

This is a pretty good article that reviews some of the hard earned lessons about information retrieval learned during the recent dot crash. More...

A World of Opportunity
Power Point Slides from my presentation yesterday. A bit sketchy, as slides usually are; at some point I will follow up with an article. In a nutshell: creators of online learning should move away from the centralized 'publishing' model of the internet and embrace the distributed 'communications' model. More...

Finnish Virtual University
Launched in English "just hours ago", unilingual readers such myself can now browse through "information about the on-line services offered by the Finnish Virtual University and by all the universities in Finland, specifically, on-line courses and support services that are available to students and instructors." More...

Safety Fears Limit Online Learning
Well, think this through. Would you keep students home from school because they might meet strangers on the street, catch a virus, hear foul language, or otherwise encounter some form of danger? Of course not (though you would try to ensure a safer neighbourhood). More...

Video Games Stimulate Learning
This BBC item in today's elearningpost is accompanied by a BBC article from last November headlined "Learning games do not boost results." Perhaps the authors of elearningpost were using cut-and-paste to make a wry comment (I wish they would use their keyboard to make wry comments, but that's another issue). More...