By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Angela Frucci[Edit][Delete]: Log on, Learn to Play (Without Reading a Note), New York Times [Edit][Delete] October 9, 2006
Music learning is undergoing an online revolution. "From the real-time animated guitar fretboard of workshoplive.com to the truefiretv.com on-demand guitar lessons to the animated courses of Berkleemusic.com, students are increasingly able to forgo formal lessons in favor of a la carte online instruction with as little or as much human interaction as they want". More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Press Release[Edit][Delete]: K-State Converts 6,000 Class Recordings to Podcasts, Kansas State [Edit][Delete] October 9, 2006
Not sure if it's the largest, but it's pretty large, and worthy of mention. According to the press release (mind the useless adjectives), "Kansas State University announced today its use of Tegrity Campus to convert an unprecedented 6,000 recorded classes to enhanced podcasts". More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Barbara Dieu[Edit][Delete]: Simulations, Future of Learning [Edit][Delete] October 7, 2006
Barbara Dieu sends along links to three nifty simulation packages. Breve "makes it easy to build 3D simulations of multi-agent systems and artificial life." Starlogo "is a programmable modeling environment for exploring the workings of decentralized systems -- systems that are organized without an organizer, coordinated without a coordinator. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Seb Schmoller[Edit][Delete]: 2 Billion People Own Mobile Phones, Fortnightly Mailing [Edit][Delete] October 7, 2006
And many many morfe peoplke have access to one - one pervasive sight in places like Colombia, South Africa and Lesotho was the small mobile phone business. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. John Hibbs[Edit][Delete]: Global Learn Day 10, October 7, 2006
In just a few hours, John Hibb's remarkable global adventure will set sail for the tenth time. Welcome, therefore, to a special Saturday Global Learn Day edition of OLDaily.

Regional Start Times and list of all Speakers ­ learn more

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By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors[Edit][Delete]: The Medium is the Massage, October 6, 2006
Because it's never a bad time to listen to Marshall McLuhan. "Marshall McLuhan appeared on the Dick Cavett Show in December of 1970 along with Truman Capote and Chicago Bears running back, Gayle Sayers. Both Capote and Sayers participated in the discussion with McLuhan. This recording was made on reel-to-reel audio tape in 1970 and directly transferred to computer in 2005". More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes, et.al.[Edit][Delete]: LearnNB, October 6, 2006
I am in Fredericton today for the LearnNB meeting - LearnNB is the local e-learning industry group, associated with CSTD and ASTD. I was pleased to be able to sit on a panel chaired by Ken Reimer looking at government and industry collaboration in the sector. Here's a link to the audio recording of the panel session (about 8 mB). [Tags: Audio Chat and Conferencing, Online Learning, Podcasting] [Comment]. More...