Amphetadesk
So much for my morning. Oh well. Amphetadesk is "a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator - it obediently sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy to use (and customizable!) webpage... with thousands of channels available." If you are viewing OLDaily in HTML, you will see an Amphetadesk icon at the bottom. More...

KPMG Consulting is Now BearingPoint

First Anderson renamed itselt to Accenture. Then PWC's consulting arm decided to call itself Monday. But the grand-daddy of them all came this week as KPMG Consulting decided to call itself BearingPoint. More...

An Updated and Theoretical Rationale for Interaction
Interesting paper on interaction that advances the following thesis: "Sufficient levels of deep and meaningful learning can be developed as long as one of the three forms of interaction (student-teacher; student-student; student-content) are at very high levels. The other two may be offered at minimal levels or even eliminated without degrading the educational experience." Of course, to make this work, it is necessary to include among the standard (Moore) list of interactions a "student-content" interaction. More...

Interactivity: Another Tack On It (4)
Slightly edited version of a post I submitted to George Siemen's ELearningCourse group earlier this week. I wrote this before seeing Terry Anderson's paper (below) but I see that it is relevant to what he has to say. In this article I reassert of the idea that interaction is not equivalent to a change in behaviour. More...

The New Literacy
It may be years before people cease to lament the decline of the literate student (after all, people today still bemoan the fact that students no longer learn Latin and Greek). But lament it we should not, because by avoiding the need to codify knowledge into sentences and seminars students today are acquiring not only different modes of learning, but much more efficient and effective modes of memory and recall. More...