Thousands flock to download “Theory and Practice of Online Learning”
By all accounts, Terry Anderson and Fathi Elloumi's “Theory and Practice of Online Learning” has been a runaway open content success, chalking up 11,000 downloads in the first few weeks since its release. More...

Educommons.org Hijacked!
You have to feel for David Wiley after his educommons.org domain was hijacked and used by a porn site operator. The site now features a disclaimer, so visitors aren't greeted with a fleshy foldout, but it is still frustrating. More...

The Innovation/Productivity Quotient
E-learning is listed as one of the major innovations (grid computing, service oriented architecture, social networking and access devices are the others) that will allow companies to achieve the next major gain from using IT, by fostering innovation. All of these are network technologies; no centralization here. More...

Eduplone Reveals Initial IMS Learning Design Support
Plone is an open source content management system (CMS) that has won a wide following for its ease of use and functionality. This article describes one of the advantages of open source: it allows people to innovate in ways not considered by the original designers. Hence, eduplone is the same CMS platform rigged to work with learning objects. More...

The Blogging in Schools Question
Thanks to Will Richardson for organizing the many blog posts from this week's discussion of blogging in schools. And for nailing the issue with some well chosen comments: "For blogging to be of value," he writes, "it has to be born of passion." So, "By its very nature, assigned blogging in schools cannot be blogging. It's contrived." So. More...

IBM Predicts Age of Open Media
In concord with my own projections: “The winners will be more open, will deliver protected information through variable packaging and pricing, will know their consumers and business partners intimately, and will deliver media to them how, when, and where they want it.” This applies to e-learninmg as well as media. More...

Wireless LAN, High Quality MPEG-4 Video Conferencing
This is cool. But take it further. Send a person with this sort of set-up to a live conference. Webcast the proceedings as experienced by the person, but also the conversations in the hall, the receptions and the parties. More...

Government of Canada versus BlogsCanada
As I said when I originally posted an item on Blogs Canada last August, it would be a mistake for the Treasury Board to complain against the site's look and feel. Nobody listens. More...

'Be a Freeporter!': Enabling a Mobile News Publishing Community
Interesting presentation outlining the idea of a network of independent, interactive 'freeporters' (see more on my thoughts about their gear below). More...

Vocabulary of E-commerce
This French-English e-commerce glossary (or dictionary) has moved since the last time I mentioned it in these pages; this is its new location. Also on the subject of translations is this Information Management Glossary by the Treasury Board Secretariat, which includes sections on intellectual property, metadata and information management. More...