Chaire de recherche du Canada en e-formation
I don't report on job opportunities, but this is a special circumstance. The Université de Moncton, which is located across the road from us, has an opening for a Canada Research Chair in e-learning. The advertisement to which I link is in French, but so is the position, so if you can't read the ad you probably shouldn't apply for the position. More...

IA University Is Not a Business (and Other Fantasies)
I know a false dilemma when I see it, and I see one in this article. One one horn of the dilemma, a criticism of the university system I have been making for a long time now: that it is essentially a cottage industry, unable or unwilling to adapt to the growing needs of students and society, resistant in so many ways to the opportunities offered by technological change. More...

IA Summit 2004 Wrapup
Good coverage (though at times frustratingly terse) of the recent Information Architecture Summit. Day One and Day Two. Via elearningpost. I really wanted to see the 'student data' diagram in more detail, but it doesn't enlarge and doesn't seem to be on the author's website. More...

Software Agent Targets Chatroom Paedophiles
Those of us who are old enough (and geeky enough) remember Julia and other early 'chatbots', computer programs that act like people in chat rooms. Or try to act like people, at least. The next generation of chatbots is here, powered by neural networks and given the task of protecting the unwary from the unsafe. More...

India Still Waits: Rural Poor Not Yet Ready For the Promise of Radio
Frederick Noronha has been covering India from the perspective of rural learning, open source software and radio for some time now. In this item, sent to me by email and posted on my website with his permission, he examines the need of the rural poor for community radio, and the halting steps toward that objective. More...