Groove Educational Case Study: CAL State University
Groove has been criticized in the past in these pages, but it's worth taking a look at this case study, written about a professor who has used it for a number of years in his classes with great success. More...

U.S. Spends The Most, But Gets 'F' In Education
I knew there were problems, but I can honestly say I didn't realize it was this bad south of the border. The number that will be played in U.S. papers - 19th among OECD coutries in education - doesn't mean much, as the competition includes highly developed countries such as Japan, Korea, Canada and Finland, among others, and these rankings would be much worse if they included performance in history and geography. More...

ISSN Canada
Well. Prompted by some nice comments on my discussion board, I decided to take another crack at obtaining an ISSN for OLDaily. I received the following response: "Thank you for your application. At the moment, we are no longer assigning ISSN to weblogs, but the situation is under review. The question of whether weblogs will be able to be assigned ISSN is under discussion in the international ISSN Network. The question hinges on the scope of the ISSN but also on the very real consideration of the limited staff resources of ISSN centres worldwide." Now it is worth noting that I did not self-identify as a weblog: I declared OLDaily to be an online periodical. More...

Webcasters Slap RIAA With Antitrust Suit
The antitrust laws may be a joke, but the Webcaster Alliance is at least making a point with its lawsuit against the RIAA. More...

AACE Phoenix
November weather has settled in over New Brunswick, and this morning's round of snow and sleet has been followed by a generally gloomy day. 6 a.m. tomorrow I'm on an airplane, headed for AACE in Phoenix, which you would think would fill me with some joy, but my registration already appears to have been messed up, there's no way to fix it online, and there's no speaker or schedule information on the website, expect for the usual keynotes and invitees. More...

3 F's, They're Out: Edison Sees Shake-up
The problems continue at Edison Schools, the private company hired to manage public schools in Philadelphia and other American cities. It turns out that you can't just hire anybody off the street: you need quality teachers. More...

ERIC/AE
For those of you following the pending closure of many ERIC services in the U.S., more information is available today about the face of the new ERIC. More...

Government of Canada Newsroom (Phase II)
Funny how things work. Yesterday I asked a questions, to which a reader responded and, in passing, suggested I visit the Canada website. I haven't been there for a while, so I did, and as I passed the news page, I sent a suggestion about formatting. More...