Beyond an Institutionalized Learning Environment
This article is interesting because it describes e-learning in the Philippines and because it looks at an approach especially appripriate to a nation characterized by "a lack of adequate landline facilities and Internet connections in far-flung and traditionally underserved areas of the country": SMS and instant messaging. More...

From a Distance: Student Empowerment and Constructing Teacher Identities Online
This is pretty neat. "Teachers' identities are intertwined with various contexts and collaborative partnerships they encounter as practitioners." Consequently, "they are constantly challenged to unpack how this configures within a broader scheme of things." Personal identity is a fluid concept in an online world - I have many! - and, as the authors note, a fundamental element of communities of practice. More...

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education-TOJDE July 2004
The July issue of TOJDE is online and presents what is probably their best issue to date. I cover three articles from this special issue. More...

Virtually Perfect
This is a very good article, one of the best of the year and certainly the best I've seen on this topic at this level. It describes how various universities are building and using mobile production suites to capture and display learning resources (such as, say, classroom lectures), taking as its point of departure the Georgia Institute of Technology's Big Bertha system. More...

Many Schools Choose to Stick with Traditional Yearbooks Although CD-ROMs are Gaining Ground
This is another case of new technology reshaping an old standby, as schools are replacing the traditional school yearbook with a CD-ROM. It's a great idea, not only because it lowers production costs but because it allows students to record video and other media that would have been impossible for a yearbook. More...

One Quarter of Online Americans Have Heard of VOIP
This shortish report (more of a memo, really) from Pew documents what observers have been sensing for some time: that voice over internet (VoIP) is catching on and is well into the 'early adopter' phase of the technology cycle. More...

E-Learning For Short Attention Spans
I've hit this point before but it's nice to see a reasonably comprehensive article - with a good case study from Dow Chemical - argue in favour of short e-learning units, especially for corporate learning - rtaher than the traditional course. More...

Hong Kong to Build E-learning Society: Official
Short article containing the statement and some statistics on computer use in Hong Kong schools. More...

Take It, It's Free
I have had serious people email me and argue that the publishing model of high subscription prices helps subsidize access for people in developing countries. That subsidy, though, doesn't seem to work its way down, not when you read about people in India paying half their stipend on reserach articles. More...

Amplify
I spent about an hour or so playing around with this last night and I don't know what to think. Amplify is a toolbar that lets you highlight an area of a web page you are viewing, and will retrieve the highlighted area (including images and even video or multimedia content) and place it on an individual 'amp. More...