By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Who's Responsible for Rising Textbook Prices?
I didn't listen to the podcast (I may get to it tomorrow, but it's 5:37 and I have a newsletter to finish). Still, the description is intriguing enough. Here's the point of departure: "The Internet has certainly been abuzz since the GAO published its report on textbook prices last week. This report showed that college textbook prices have increased at twice the rate of inflation and have followed close behind tuition increases". More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ODRL Workshop 2005 Report
If you've already read the papers from the recent ODRL conference in Lisbon, linked here last week, then you won't need this item. If you didn't, however, this summary will be useful. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Learning in an Online World
This report is unreadable online - a tiny type combined with double leading and two-column format in PDF makes it impossible. People purporting to tell us how to use ICT in learning and pedagogy should know better - unless theyt don't know better. Anyhow, after wrestling with it for an hour or so (instead of the ten minutes it should have taken) I found a document containing sweeping (and not always correct) generalizations and relatively few particulars. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Learning in an Online World: Progess Report 2004
Overview report that concludes, essentially, that "Australian schools have continued to make progress in the use of ICT to improve student learning and to prepare children for the future." Statistics on bandwidth, internet use, embedding of ICT in the curriculum and teacher preparation. More...