The Board seeks a highly qualified individual to boldly and efficiently build upon a sound statewide academic tradition, supporting the higher education needs of a student population numbering 36,600 and a faculty and staff of about 5,100. More...

MARTEC
The acronym stands for "Mentoring for Effective Technology Integration in K-12 Schools." Participants were selected by the New jersey Department of Education and interviewed about their experiences as mentors. More...

Is E-learning Really the Future or a Risk?
This essay has a catchy title, but the PDF document (the HTML link supplied by ACM wasn't working) that follows is not a good read. This raises a dilemma: should I include such resources in OLDaily, or simply let them slide into oblivion. Usually I opt for the latter, but this one is glaring, especially coming as it does from a publication of some repute. More...

OAI Metadata Harvesting Workshop
This page is a set of position statements submitted by participants in the upcoming OAI Metadata Harvesting Workshop at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Houston at the end of May. The issues here are remarkable consistent with those I see on the RSS-Dev or Syndication discussion lists. More...

Web Site Where Gossip Posted About SoCal Students is Shut Down
Parents and some students are pleased that schoolscandals.com has been shut down. The site, which was used to spread rumours and gossip about classmates, had been the subject of numerous complaints. More...

Reusing Online Resources: A Sustainable Approach to eLearning
This special issue of JIME features chapter summaries and commentary directed toward the recently published book "Reusing Online Resources: A Sustainable Approach to eLearning" edited by Allison Littlejohn. More...

Take the Fat Out of Your Writing
Good article with some useful advice for people who wish to be understood when they write. Be clear. Be accurate. Be relevant. More...

Semantic Blogging Demonstrator
It may just be a demonstration, but the content of this semantic blog is pretty good. The idea here is that blog entries are not merely a written comment. Each entry is associated with a set of metadata; readers can view the metadata in N3 or RDF XML, or browse it in something called Brownsauce (which appears to be broken in my browser). More...

Building on What We Know
David Carter-Tod hits on a problem that has occupied my mind for some time now: the difficulties inherent in building on what is already known in a field, in this case, instructional technology. The issue came out during my recent discussions with David Wiley, in which it transpired that I had only read about half of his work and he had read none of mine. More...

IMS ACCLIP is a Public Draft
The IMS Accessibility for the Learner Information Profile has entered the public draft stage. More...