Online Portal Aimed at Helping Doctors
The interesting thing about this item is the introduction of the concept of the "personal learning project" as employed by doctors as part of their ongoing professional development. Doctors to create their own personal learning projects using an electronic Web diary. More...
Optimal E-Learning Utilization: A Win-Win
This item looks at the reasons employees resist e-learning and offers suggestions for reducing that resistance. The usual suspects are indicted: "People may resist e-Learning because it can feel cold and impersonal. It creates a participant-centric environment that requires initiative and effort. More...
Making Sense of Learning Specifications & Standards: A Decision Maker's Guide to their Adoption
Contains one of the better explanations of why we need standards, which is worth repeating here. Standards enable:
Scientific American Responds to Flap Over Environmentalism Article
Yesterday I related the story of an author ordered by Scientific American to remove the magazine's review of his book from his website. More...
Speech Bound to be Read
This little item ought to give in-class lecturers pause for thought: speech recognition devices are now sufficiently sophisticated to enable students to capture a text version of the lecture. This article profiles an Australian project aimed at helping students who are hearing impaired, or have trouble understanding spoken English. More...
Learning Pool is a good example of the sort of think I have been calling 'network learning. More...
Free Speech Under Attack
Without vouching either for the credibility of the book nor the fairness of the coverage in this article, it is nonetheless important to note the use of copyright restrictions by Scientific American to stifle criticism of its review of Björn Lomborg's book "The Skeptical Environmentalist". More...
21st Century Literacy in a Convergent Media World
This is a major white paper sponsored by Bertelsmann and AOL Time Warner as a discussion document for the 21st Centeury Literacy Conference being held this week in Berlin. It is required reading for policy makers in learning, human resources and government. It is one of the few papers in any of these fields to explicitly make the connection between new forms of learning and new forms of government. And it represents not only a strong grasp of the potential new technology embodies but also some of the decisions administrators will have to make in order to realize that potential. More...
3-D Med School, Hold the Cadavers
A couple of high profile news releases for the CAVE virtual reality similator this week.
A new immersive simulation of the human body at the University of Calgary allows researchers to understand complex processes. More...
NCSA and American Museum of Natural History Take Remote Collaboration to New Level to Create Space Show
Visitors are being dazzled by the new space show, "The Search for Life: Are We Alone?" at the American Museum of Natural History's (AMNH) Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space (in Champaign, Illinois? Sometimes press releases omit the most basic information). More...
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