Top eLearning Reference Sources
Seb remarks that I will be pleased to be cited twice in Jay Cross's list of the fifteen places he heads to first for e-learning news. More...

Copying is Theft - And Other Legal Myths
This article takes a long time to make a small point, but it is a point well worth making. File sharing is not theft. Who says so? The U.S. Supreme Cour. More...

MELCOE
Just opened, Macquarie University’s E-learning Centre of Excellence (MELCOE) has embarked in its new role as the stewards of Australia's COLIS system. More...

Click or Brick Colleges
Zane Berge asks the question, "Will traditional, residential education in the 21st century be found only at a few elite institutions and be only for the wealthy who can afford to attend them?" He lingers on the idea that new technologies, when they are introduced, are usually used to do old things. More...

Re-Learning E-Learning
The author describes a report that "identifies three principles and five education consumer segments to guide e-Learning providers." Most of the article looks at the principles. Instead of creating coures, provides should create "bite-sized chunks". More...

Canada's Digital Collections
Funded by the Canadian federal government's Youth Employment Strategy, Canada's Digital Collections is a growing collection of subject specific resources created by young Canadians. More...

Partner Search
As part of the European Commission section of elearningeuropa, a partner search facility has been added. More...

Blogging By The Numbers
When things get popular on the internet, the numbers get big. How big? Well, this census of blogs reports that there are there are roughly 2.4 million to 2.9 million active Weblogs as of June 2003. More...

Trade Winds
Much more interesting is this account of the use of wireless instant messaging in the classroom. In this case, the text chat was displayed on a large screen in front of the room. "A panel on Web services featuring Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff provoked the most talked-about moment of the conference – at Benioff’s expense.... We thought this (Benioff's point) was news, until Ross Mayfield, CEO of one of the Web’s leading blogging software providers, Socialtext, led an online chat charge showing that most of this was apparently untrue." The author does a nice job of tracing the phenomenon. More...

In the Lecture Hall, a Geek Chorus
Interesting look at the impact of wireless instant messaging in the classroom. By now, though, we know what to expect. Some people read their email while others comment on the lecture. And, of course, some lecturers are complaining. More...