Play For Performance

It's funny. I had never heard of Thiagi a couple of months ago. Now he's everywhere. I suppose in some circles he has had guru status for some time, but his circles have shifted and now I find him within my horizon. More...

Simulation May be The E-learning Killer App

I believe that simulations are important to e-learning and have been touting them for many years. I've even built a few. More...

Learning Solutions - Learning Objects: Behind the Buzz

Good utility grade overview of learning objects intended for the general (read: executive) reader. I like the example of learning object metadata contgained in this article. More...

Enterprise Learning: A Spending Summary

This article is a good source of notes and quotes about the current and projected size of the enterprise learning market. More...

Chief Learning Officer
After a great deal of publicity (I got an email every time a new editor or contributor was appointed), a new magazine, Chief Learning Officer, launched today. I've listed a couple of articles below. More...

Schools Begin Initial Journey With Laptops as Learning Tool
After spending a whack of money (and enduring much criticism), Maine's laptop program begins today as the state provides every seventh grader with a laptop. More...

Read My Weblog, Feed My Weblog

It was only a matter of time, I suppose - and indeed, we could see this coming as people like Dave Pell wanted to turn their blogs (as Pell said) from a hobby to a business. More...

In Search of . . . Brain-Based Education

This item is three years old but it provides a good statement of the sort of objection I need to meet if I am to say that what the author calls "brain based" research is to have any bearing on education. More...

Free Full Text: FindArticles and MagPortal
Reviw of two online article search and retrieval services, FindArticles and MagPortal. Though the reviews are generally positive, the author cautions that "these two free full-text resources are not going to be the starting point of choice" because of their limited holdings - 500 and 150 periodicals respectively. More...

Open Learning Objects: The Case for Inner Metadata
This is one of those papers that leaves you scratching your head. There's something there worth considering but the paper is long on describing the technology and short on explaining what the technology does. More...