e-Learning Dashboard
Kevin Kruse of e-LearningGuru has come up with this nifty e-learning 'Dashboard' containing e-learning headlines, current stock prices of major e-learning companies, one click access to 9 different e-learning blogs, and a calendar of e-learning events for the month ahead. More...

Scholarly Communication in the Digital Environment: What Do Authors Want?
This paper reports on the results of a large world-wide survey on authors' opinions regarding commercial publishing and open access. Overall, the authors report scepticism and sometimes hostility toward commercial publishers. More...

Videography for Educators
Pete MacKay of the Teacher List this week ran a nice series of links on videography for educators, reproduced here: Videography for Educators, from Apple; About.com's Desktop Video Basics; Atomic Learning's resources on iMovie 2 and Windows Movie Maker 2; and Bill Edwards's Streaming Media Test Grounds. More...

MERLOT Virtual Speaker Bureau Brings Guest Experts Online
MERLOT comes up with its own version of an idea that is becoming increasingly popular: linking service providers (such as subject matter experts or instructors) with potential clients. More...

Government's Response to the Recommendations of the Three Research Related Reviews
The Australian government has posted its response to three recent studies: Evaluation of Knowledge and Innovation Reforms Consultation Report; Review of Closer Collaboration Between Universities and Major Publicly Funded Research Agencies; and the Final Report for the National Research Infrastructure Taskforce. More...

Archimede: A Canadian Software Solution for Institutional Repositories
Laval University Library has released the third part of its institutional repository, Archimede. "This component covers e-prints, pre-prints, post-prints and other research publications from faculty members and research communities." A demo is available. More...

Grads Return to Campuses to Stay
Like any business, universities, noticing the stagnation of their core enterprise, are branching out. More and more, universities will focus on selling 'quality of life' rather than 'content' or even 'degrees'. More...

Southern Miss may Change E-mail Policy
As the recent controversy over Google's use of email contents to filter advertising has shown, the (presumed) privacy of email is a sensitive issue. At Southern Miss this issue has become front and center. More...

The Belief That More Education Will Create More Equal Opportunities has Been Proved Wrong
There's a bit of a false dilemma in this article, as the author suggests that the choice facing egalitarians is to accept inequality or prevent well-off parents from "reading to their children." It is by no means that simple, but I have seen numerous studies showing that the best indicator of educational success is social class. More...

The Courtship of Atom
Atom is the name of the community driven alternative to RSS that developed in response to the endless conflicts over RSS. Adopted by Google's Blogger system and other major players, it is a viable candidate to replace RSS (eventually) for a number of reasons. More...