Core Middleware programme Announcement
The 15 successful proposals for the JISC Core Middleware Technology Development Projects (in Britain) have been announced. I am inclined to agree with Rod Savoie on this - if technology requires middleware to operate with other technology, it's broken. But I'll leave that prejudice for another day. More...
Have Your Google People Talk to my 'Googol' People
In the late 1930s, Columbia University professor Edward Kasner's 9-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, came up with the word "Googol" to name the largest number in the world. A googol, wrote Kasner, is 10 raised to the 100th power. More...
Global Support for Information Society Targets
Results of a survey taken for the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) showing strong (95 percent) support for the notion that "cyberspace should be declared a resource to be shared by all for the global public good." Count me in the 95 percent camp. Priorities identified by the survey include connecting educational institutions, research centres, and people in general. More...
Building the School of the Future
Streaming media presentation (not viewable in Firefox) from Microsoft outlining its vision of the school of the future. It looks at where children are going online today - a good place to start - and notes that significant numbers of them do things like access foreign newspapers or practice e-commerce. More...
Education Arcade
From Water Cooler Games (via WWWEDU), an interesting blog in itself, comes coverage of the two-day Education Arcade, a conference at MIT held to discuss the use of games in learning. More...
New Version of UK Education Metadata Profile Released
A new version of the UK Learning Object Metadata core (UK LOM Core) has been released. UK LOM is an application profile of the IEEE-LOM standard (just as, say, CanCore is) for use by British educational institutions. More...
2004 Virtual Conferences
The Commonwealth of Learning virtual conference titled 'Latest Developments' has started and I have been watching the introductory messages flow for the last day or so (in other words, it's not too late to join the discussion). 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...
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...
Google Searches Repositories: So What Does Google Search For?
This commentary deflates the enthusiasm about Google's plan to search institutional repositories, arguing in essence that there is nothing there to search for. Could be. More...
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