Collaborative Representations: Supporting Face to Face and Online Knowledge-building Discourse
It took me a couple of attempts to get the gist of this article (which I attribute to the use of a two-column PDF format, terrible for screen reading). But the main idea is to explore how the visual representation of information and online collaboration can be combined into a single system. More...

Bill Would Ease Copyright Limits For E-Learning
Overview of the Technology Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act, considered likely to pass this fall. It's a good summary, listing the major improvements offered by the act, such as the extension of fair use to digital material, and also outlining the limitations, such as the restriction to techer-led classes at accredited institutions. More...

IBM Bets $10 Billion on 'On-Demand' Computing

Just a quick note on this one: if IBM can offer "on-demand computing" how hard could it be to offer "on-demand learning". More...

How to Market E-Learning in Your Company

This issue is a bit of a flavour of the month, having shown up in a number of places recently. It won't last, because there's not much to say, and most of it is said here. More...

Conference Proceedings - Online Learning 2002

Still more from Online learning 2002 - this page contains dozens of handouts (or slide presentations) from the sessions. More...

Canadian Companies Rock at Online Learning 2002
More coverage of Online learning 2002 in Anaheim. This article, replete wih links to Canadian e-learning companies, makes the astonishing point that fully 30 percent of the exhibitors at the show were Canadian. More...

Distance Ed: Not So Distant
University Business magazine seems to have risen from the ashes (somebody could have told me... *grumble*) and is back to producing quality articles for university administrations. This item places distance learning in context for people who tend to focus on daya to day university administration. More...

E-learn and Earn
Short article that raises the question of whether companies can make money offering e-learning. The answer is that they can, but with stipulations. The author cites successful entities such as the University of Phoenix, DeVry and Strayer Education to show that it could happen. More...

Why Dons Won't Be Logging On Today
The headline of this article is a bit miselading as the academic boycott is mentioned in one paragraph only. The bulk of the story is devoted to some high profile failures in the e-learning field, most notably Open University's withdrawal from the American market and the continuing saga of Universitas 21. More...

Students' Learning Styles in Two Classes: Online Distance Learning and Equivalent On-Campus.
This article begins with a light sketch of learning styles, drawing mostly on Kolb and Gee. Also some useful material on selecting a learning style instrument (which was posted yesterday on DEOS). I've never really been happy with traditional accounts of learning styles. More...