Email Newsletters Pick Up Where Websites Leave Off
Validated. Jakob Nielsen likes email newsletters and says that "users have highly emotional reactions to newsletters... you have an ongoing relationship with them." So much so that many people won't unsubscribe even when they stop reading the newsletter. More...

Why Salary Bonus and Other Incentives Fail to Meet Their Objectives
This is interesting. We read almost constantly about the need to motivate online learners. I have always had my doubts about this strategy - as I said at NLII last January, maybe the problem is that you're trying to get them to do something they don't want to do. More...

Conference Proceedings - Online Learning 2002

Still more from Online learning 2002 - this page contains dozens of handouts (or slide presentations) from the sessions. More...

Canadian Companies Rock at Online Learning 2002
More coverage of Online learning 2002 in Anaheim. This article, replete wih links to Canadian e-learning companies, makes the astonishing point that fully 30 percent of the exhibitors at the show were Canadian. More...

Keep Taking the Tablets

Another article on tablet PCs - or, as I have been calling them for the last four years, PADs. With a projected launch date just six weeks away, they could sweep through the marketplace within just a few months. More...

Web Site Fuels Debate on Campus Anti-Semitism
Are university professors fair game for web sites featuring "dossiers" of those it opposes? The organizers of a site called Campus Watch think so as they compile and post information about colleges and professors they allege to be anti-semetic. The site is currently running very slowly (thanks, probably, to the New York Times article linked here). More...

Ups and Downs of Wireless Access
A good article describing the state of mobile wireless access from the point of view of an itinerant web surfer. The only thing I don't understand is why she had so much trouble sending email. In any cased, her experiences wandering through cities looking for a connection are similar to mine. More...

Rub-a-dub-dub, IBM in a Tub
I have talked about embedded processing before, but this takes the cake. The eSuds system, developed by IBM and USA technologies, will allow students to pay for laundry by swiping a card or punching a code into their phones. But more, it lets students check a website for empty machines. More...

The Pen as Mighty as the Keyboard

Just what the world doesn't need: hand written websites. Why? Because most people have terrible handwriting! Oh, and we don't need handwritten emails either. More...

ASCD Advocacy Kit
From the website: "Through the goal of success for all learners, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) unites educators worldwide. Yet troubling trends threaten the realization of the ASCD vision. Public support for education is increasingly fragile. Poverty jeopardizes the well-being and education of our young people. More...