Exposing Information Resources for E-learning - Harvesting and Searching IMS metadata Using the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting and Z39.50

Nice technical document that I wish people working on development in a large national learning object initiative (which will go nameless, to protect the guilty) would read. More...

Sleeping With the Enemy?
This author is concerned that senior managers are beginning to "talk nonsense" about commercial journal publishers in public meetings. "Like most individuals and organisations on the planet we need other people to help us along the way, and commercial publishers provide libraries with services that we should value, not disparage." So what are these services. More...

In Praise of the Purple Cow
This item doesn't have a lot to do with e-learning, but it has been making the rounds of e-learning lists and with good reason. The basic message is simple: if you want to be successful with your product, do something different and useful. More...

Blogs Refine Enterprise Focus
All you really need to publish a blog is a website, a text editor and an FTP server for uploads. If you want to splurge, you can spend $50 and get a blogging tool. But I've already seen "enterprise weblog solutions" selling for $50,000 and more. More...

Design and Reusability of Learning Objects in an Academic Context: A New Economy of Education?

If you missed it when I posted it on this site, the USDLA Journal has published the text of the talk I gave in Milan. More...

FasTrac Program in Partnership with Advanced Distributed Learning
I have a couple of documents in my in-box describing in detail this recently announced initiative (so far as I know they are not publicly available so I can't link to them). More...

MPAA Spurns Digital Copyright Plans
Technology vendor groups and the recording industry have reached an agreement in the United States. The recording industry as agreed that it will not lobby for legislation requiring that digital rights be enforced in all new technology. More...

Jupiter Research Analyst Weblogs

I have mentioned before the potential use of blogs in research and other academic activities. Yesterday this was realized as Jupiter Research announced the launch of several research blogs authored by their analysts. More...

Judge: Kazaa Can Be Sued In U.S.
Proving that the court system learns very slowly from developments in other countries, a U.S. judge has ruled that file-swapping service Kazaa is subject to U.S. law. More...

New TurboTax Activation Feature Triggers Backlash
Thinking of using copy-prevention technology to protect online learning content? If so, be prepared for an angry consumer backlash. This is what happened when people who purchased a new copy of Intuit's new TurboTax software discovered it was restricted to a single computer. More...