Is There a Future for Online Ed?
With the recent collapse of Fathom and Harcourt Higher Education, people are beginning to ask this question, and the answer is assumed to be "no." But that's not the whole story, notes the author, as some universities are making e-learning work. More...

E-Learning is Dead

Jay Cross reacts in his blog to the changing of the name of E-Learning Magazine to the uninspiring title Learning and Training Innovations. More...

21st Century Renaissance
If you haven't read any of Douglas Rushkoff's work yet, you should. This item is a disappointly short taste. But the full flavour of the Rushkoff universe is there. We are, he argues, in the throes of a new renaissance, one which completely changes the rules. More...

The Second Superpower Rears its Beautiful Head
Though international conflict is causing most of us to pay more attention to the world's traditional superpower than we might like, the voices speaking out against this conflict are not the product of any single nation, but rather, of a "second superpower" characterized by the "will of the people" in a global social movement. More...

Are Corporations to Blame?

Shouldn't environmentalists and social activists spend more time thinking about how they spend their own dollars and their own time rather than blaming corporations for the evils of the world. More...

So What is Knowledge Management Anyway?

Another (the second in a series of twelve) short article for LearnScope. More...

RSS at MSDN

The Microsoft Developers' Network (MSDN) has announced the release of a half dozen RSS feeds for developers. More...

Power Point Conversion Shoot-Out
I don't know why people would want to convert PowerPoint slides to e-learning, but about a dozen products accomplish (more or less) the task, and they were recently subjected to a Brandon Hall shootout. This page describes the contest and - best of all - links to the conversions produced by some of the products so you can see the results for yourself. Since I viewed them on Gaelon, a browser for Linux, I probably viewed results other than the software designers intended. More...

Music Industry Drops Anti-Piracy Pamphlets on Campus

I can't imagine how this tactic is going to work, especially given its intended audience. More...

Analyst: Internet File-Sharing Bigger Than Record Business
"Free peer-to-peer music file-sharing has become larger than the multibillion dollar recording industry with a growth trend that has become 'fundamentally unstoppable,' a media analyst told a state Senate committee exploring Internet piracy on Thursday." I agree with this sentiment. More...