The Path to Teacher Leadership in Educational Technology
Useful paper that examines issues related to techers' adoption of technology. It examines an earlier model where teachers begin as learners, eventually reaching a point where they reaffirm (or reject) the technology and become technology leaders. But many teachers, after learning, were simply rejecting technology. More...

Developing a Community of Learners: Potentials and Possibilities in Web Mediated Discourse
Overview article that summarizes some of the advantages of creating an online learning community for classroom learners and describes some of the techniques employed to support such a community. More...

Net*Daily
For the better part of two weeks in August, 2002, I wrote a daily commentary for Net*Working 2002, an online conference hosted by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework for the National Vocational Education and Training System. More...

IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers
Last week when IBM and Thomson Learning announced an agreement I suggested that a third component was needed to bolster IBM's elearning capacity. The third part comes this week with IBM's acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, the branch of the accounting giant responsible for the eArmyU project and a variety of other elearning initiatives. More...

Copyright in the Balance: LJ Talks with Lawrence Lessig
I really don't like the idea of bringing the handgun debate into the copyright devate, even if the analogy is a good one. In this interview Lessig argues, "clearly there are bad uses of the handgun. But for some reason we don't entirely ban the use of the handgun. If we don't ban technologies that kill people, I don't think we should ban technology that could be used for lots of completely legitimate purposes." OK, sure, but what if you think handguns should be banned. More...

Copyright as Cudgel

Good article that has as its essential message the thesis that academics have either been sleeping or backing the wrong side when it comes to the copyright debate. More...

Distance Ed: Not So Distant
University Business magazine seems to have risen from the ashes (somebody could have told me... *grumble*) and is back to producing quality articles for university administrations. This item places distance learning in context for people who tend to focus on daya to day university administration. More...

2002 Workplace Training Report
It's a sizable survey but sponsored by an e-learning company, so the results are inherently suspect. That said, about half the employers who responded to this web based survey said they use technology in training, while two thirds said they would like to. More...

E-learn and Earn
Short article that raises the question of whether companies can make money offering e-learning. The answer is that they can, but with stipulations. The author cites successful entities such as the University of Phoenix, DeVry and Strayer Education to show that it could happen. More...

Faculty Perceptions Regarding Issues of Civility in Online Instructional Communication
Interesting article reporting the results of a survey of 39 articles regarding civility in online discourse (I wish this type of article would attempt to get a more meaningful sample). The primary finding appears to be that while online civility is widely thought to be a problem, it is practice not a problem, with most students avoiding flame wars and sticking to the issues. More...