Moodling Around in Anger - Some Initial Reflections
There has been a lot of talk about Moodle, the open source learning management. But what is it like for an institution that has typically used WebCT or Blackboard to start using it? This article looks at a real-life case - a use 'in anger', if you will. More...

ED Outlines New Tech Priorities
The U.S. Department of Education has released its latest National Education Technology Plan (NETP). The report makes seven recommendations:
- Strengthen ed-tech leadership at the state and local levels
- Consider innovative budgeting
- Improve teacher training
- Support eLearning and virtual schooling initiatives
- Encourage broadband access
- Move toward digital content; and
- Integrate data systems. More...

MPEG LA Issues First Collective DRM Patent License
A coalition of digital rights management (DRM) patent holders called MPEG-LA (Licensing Austority), including ContentGuard and Digitrust, has announced the first round of licenses for DRM technology. More...

The Truth About Being A Great Manager
Kyle James, .eduGuru, January 31, 2013

Useful lesson of the day: "to manage is to serve." I don't have much more to say about this that that. If they get that, everything else follows. More...

New Face of Provincial Identity Management
Ian Bailey, BCNET Conference 2014, June 2, 2014
I've tried - I've really tried - to get past the first minute of this video. Several times, in fact! But I can't get past how unenthusiastic Ian Bailey's voice sounds as he tells us how enthusiastic he is about identity management. More...

DRM at its Worst? Here's a Prime Example
If you wonder why I rail against digital rights management (DRM), this article provides a good example. The author orders a DVD of Terminator 2 (T2). Despite being advertised as playable on Windows Media, an additional DRM client is required. Then it only plays in Canada or the U.S. (as determined by a buggy IP analyser). More...

Management by Objects
There's some genuinely neat stuff by Microsoft described in this article (yes - the words 'Microsoft' and 'neat' in the same sentence - who knew?) (and follow the reference to the earlier article where Monah is demonstrated). More...