Rights Clearning House
This Canadian site advertises itself as "the easy way to license music online." It uses a wizard to help you search for the tracks you want to use, calculate cost based on number of copies, and pay online using your credit card. More...

Tablet PCs: Ready for Prime Time
Good comprehensive overview of available Tablet PCs, the new system designed to allow people to take handwritten notes on a light, portable and connected computer. This article treads the cautious waters between hype and scepticism, providing reviews of about a dozen brands, while delving deeply into the platform's capacities and limitations. More...

Standardization Progress: A Report from IEEE LTSC Meetings
Update from the recent IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) meetings in Paris. Of interest is the committee's reactions to criticisms from CETIS and elsewhere about royalty-free access to learning object metadata standards: essentially, they have set up a committee to study the matter and the beta version of the standard remains available for access. More...

Quick Guide to EPrints

This article is everything its title advertises it to be, a quick read and overall guide to self-published articles on the internet. One of its strengths is a list of links to existing eprints repositories. More...

Providers Have To Start Putting Excitement Into E-learning
Why did the state of Victoria withdraw an ambitious online training program intended to teach 55,000 teachers about harassment and related issues? Administrators say it was due to be withdrawn at the end of 2002, but the author suggests that its withdrawal after reaching only 68 percent of its intended audience tells a different story. More...

Who Goes There? Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy
This is about as awkwardly presented as an online publication can get, as each page is presented as a GIF image, but the content is compelling. In this report, the authors examine the concept of user identification - passwords, public keys and biometrics - from the standpoint of personal privacy and find current approaches sorely lacking. More...

Coping With Digital Rights Management
Slides from my presentation on digital rights at the eduSource Industry Forum last week in Toronto. In that presentation I went into an interesting digression on the nature of learning objects. Here was my argument in a nutshell (printed here because it doesn't exist like this elsewhere). Yes, the reference to a certain prop is real. More...

Home Schoolers Get Out Of The House
I personally don't see how people have time to home-school their children. But maybe that's just me. In any case, this article is about a welcome trend: getting home-schooled children out of the home and into the community. It begins with things like volleyball tournaments. More...

Freedom in E-Learning
Five posts from my participation in a recent IFETS discussion around a theory of e-learning. I focus on the suggestion that learning requires a curriculum and propose instead that e-learning allows us to introduce freedom to learning. More...

LIKE

It is in PDF format, which makes it impossible to link to specific articles. Too bad. LIKE (Learning In a Knowledge Europe) is one of the better e-learning newsletters I've seen, well written, factual, and sensitive to industry trends. More...