The Future of Work: An 'Apprentice'-style Office?
This is something I have been advocating as long as I have been advocating things: "Democracy and freedom are coming to business." My view is that a nation is not democratic unless its institutions are demcratic, and these institutions include businesses and institutions (which are currently run as dictatorships or fiefdoms). More...

Tipping Point: From Feckless Reform to Substantive Instructional Improvement
I really liked this paper, which is in essence a condemnation of centralized (and frequently top-down) 'strategic planning' and 'school reform'. The author notes that there is widespread recognition that this sort of process fails, and that a more distributed type of short-term programs and learning communities does more to promote learning. More...

National Parks as Classrooms
I don't emphasize this as much as I should - online learning will succeed when it gets students out of the classroom and into the communities about which we are trying to teach them. In this regard, programs such as the National Parks Program play an increasingly significant role, as students, supported by mobile e-learning, get out into the forest to study the trees. More...

Une école et son cybercarnet
Or, a school and its blog. This post, in French, announces the new blog system for the Centre d'Apprentissage du Haut-Madawaska. Accessible here, the project is the result, in part, of work by the NRC's Seb Paquet and Todd Bingham. More...

Be Afraid - Very Afraid! Be Excited - Very excited!
Do you use web tools at home because they won't work through the school firewall? Do you spurn the corporate LMS, opting to work with open source instead? Do you turn your back on pre-structured content, allowing your students to build their own learning? Do you play with mobile learning technology? If you do, then you're disruptive, and your innovation is described and celebrated in this useful article. More...

How to Start Your Own Blog
Describes what a blog is, why you would want one, and what to do to get one. Many links and resources, with the comments from readers pointing to more. More...

A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools
Consider the problem of file sharing: despite the existence of many collaborate tools, we continue to send email attachments. "If the tools that purport to solve this problem are good, why aren't we using them?" Because the tools forget about good software. More...

DND to form eLearning Partnership Lab with U.S.
Congratulations to Roger St-Pierre, Peter Hope and the rest of the crew at the Defence Learning Network (DLN) in Ottawa as an agreement is reach to form a research and development partnership lab in collaboration with Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL). More...

The Future of Weblogging
BloggerCon was held over the weekend, and if you didn't notice, don't fret. This article summarizes some of the discussion with what seem to be calls from the mainstream for bloggers to be more, well, mainstream. More...