First Look at MSN Blogs
Robert Scoble, of Microsoft fame, offers readers a glimpse at his still empty blog (in Japanese) at what is being called 'MSN Spaces' and has it taken apart line by line in this critical article. More...
Blinkx
Blinkx
Some people are saying that Blinkx is the next Google. I downloaded and installed the application this morening, and despite some usability issues, found that it does as promised: it searches both my personal files and the web in a single pass. No sign of the embedded application features, though, possibly because. More...
Word Circle
Word Circle
Open source online learning community software (in PHP). Pretty basic functionality, allowing instructors to add thoughts, calendar items, discussions and files. That said, the foundation seems firm and the code could easily be expanded to do more. More...
Impact on Students of Flexible Teaching & Learning - Quantitative Report
Impact on Students of Flexible Teaching & Learning - Quantitative Report
This item popped up in my DLORN Ticker this morning, via EdNA, and while most definitely not a learning object (properly so-called), it is a useful and well-structured study of student reactions to flexible learning in Tasmania. More...
There's One Born Every Minute
There's One Born Every Minute
Brief report about eReader's offer of 250 public domain ebooks for $995 (for $1,495 you can get 500 titles). The author points out, quite rightly, that you can obtain these titles for free online at the Gutenberg Project. More...
Random Walk in E-Learning
Random Walk in E-Learning
Well-known e-learning researcher Albert Ip has given in to the inevitable ;) and launched a blog. More...
Assessing Understanding With Multiple-Choice Questions
Assessing Understanding With Multiple-Choice Questions
A couple of short posts on writing multiple choice questions to evaluate not just knowledge, but also understanding and evaluation. More...
Protestant Majority Slips: A Sign of Things to Come in the LMS Wars
Protestant Majority Slips: A Sign of Things to Come in the LMS Wars
In what must be the oddest lede to ever mark an article on e-learning, this author introduces the coming diversity in LMS solutions available to colleges and universities by analogy with the apparently increasing diversity of religion in the United States. More...
Learning Technology Newsletter
Learning Technology Newsletter
The July 2004 issue of IETF's Learning Technology newsletter is now available but published only in PDF, making it impossible to link to specific articles. More...
The Devil You Don’t Know: The Unexpected Future of Open Access
The Devil You Don’t Know: The Unexpected Future of Open Access
Laden with snide remarks and innuendos, this article suggests that advocates of open access are promoting a simplistic solution with no regard to the long term consequences. The long term result of open access journals, argues the author, will be an increase, not a decrease, in the cost of scholarly publication. More...