Evaluation as a Strategic Tool
Brief outline of Kirkpatrick's levels of evaluation of learning reosurces, by Kirkpatrick. Useful quick reference. More...

Teachers Learning New Tools
When people ask whether e-learning is 'just as good' as traditional learning, this isn't one of the metrics that really shows up: improved access and independence for special education students. More...

Personalized News? Findory News Has Them
Robin Good points us to this resource, Findory, that cretaes a personalized online newspaper, providing a short description and link to a Findory page containing news reports about Findory (nice). More...

The Conversing Company: Its Culture, Power and Potential
With stories, links, descriptions, diagrams, case studies and more, Alan Stewart presents a fascinating excursion into the benefits of conversation for companies. Originally presented in Vienna in 2001, this resource, passed along via elearningpost, provides a refreshing look at an old topic. More...

Italy School Foils Cheats by Blocking Phone Signals
Tech fights tech - this short item, describes the use of jamming equipment to block cell (mobile) phones during tests at a school in Italy. Heh. More...

Learning Styles and Pedagogy in Post-16 Learning: A Systematic and Critical Review
"This report critically reviews the literature on learning styles and examines in detail 13 of the most influential models. The report concludes that it matters fundamentally which instrument is chosen. The implications for teaching and learning in post-16 learning are serious and should be of concern to learners, teachers and trainers, managers, researchers and inspectors." Really nice summary of the learning styles models - a great place to get an overview. More...

Should We Be Using Learning Styles? What Research Has to Say to Practice
Seb Schmoller brings us two nice - and critical - reviews of learning styles. As the authors note, "There is... a strong intuitive appeal to the notion that we all have individual preferences and styles of learning." It is, indeed, an intuition I share. More...

A Special Request
My thanks to the many people who have sent me notes describing the impact of our work here at the NRC e-learning group. For those who missed the request sent out Sunday (that is, text, RSS and Javascript feed subscribers), there is still time to send me an email. More...

Librarians do E-Learning Metadata! A Report on the NSDL Vocabulary Workshop
Norm Friesen - who, I'm happy to say, remains at Athabasca University - passes along this conference summary from the recent NSDL Vocabulary Workshop. More...

Mobile E-learning, Policy development and ICT Teacher Training in Cambodia
Page pointing to three links related to this project. The most significant is the first link, which is a report on this project from the end of May, describing updates in Cambodian ICT policy, an e-learning bus touring the country, e-learning teacher training, and more. More...