In the Land of Confusion
A nice application by Seb Fiedler of Philip Candy's 1991 Self-direction for lifelong learning to some of the confusion surrounding self-directed learning on the web. Fiedler draws on Candy's notion of "ownership" where in some cases of self-directed learning the influence of the professor may linger, while in others it is absent. More...
Let’s Build More “Learning” into Even Basic IT Tools
I don't think I really like this idea but I'll pass it along in any case. The author's proposal is that the software tools students use on campus should have educational ads built into them. More...
When the Cows Come Home: A Proven Path of Professional Development for Faculty Pursuing E-Learning
The title promises more than the article delivers, but this summary of the University of Houston's CampusNet Online Workshop, or COW, is worth reading. More...
How to use Weblogs to Create Engaging Learning Experiences
Nice overview article that describes the educational uses of weblogs and describes three-step design process using blogs to teach a program. More...
Designing Collaborative E-Learning For Results
Case study of the adaptation of a two-hour lunch seminar on conflict resolution to online deliver. More...
Reed Elsevier Gives in on Free Research
Fallout continues from Elsevier's agreement to allow authors to publish their articles own on their own web sites (how odd that sounds!) including this article describing it as "a major concession to the 'open access' lobby." Not that there is such a thing as "the open access lobby" per se. More...
No Network Effect
Rafe Needleman tap into a long-standing concern of mine, networks that don't interoperate. Examples abound: instant messaging, social networks, push-to-talk, VoIP. While customers benefit from network effects, he writes, companies simply see it as lost revenue. More...
Microsoft's Patent Plans Worry Open-Source Supporters
Microsoft's plans to leverage a badly flawed U.S. patent system to begin crushing open source by licensing and litigation has advocates worried. More...
RSS: Grassroots Support Leads to Mass Appeal
Learning Circuits has run my article on RSS, surveying some of the details of the syndication format and discussing the relation between RSS and some other initiatives such as OAI and social networking. More...
McDonald's, Sony to serve downloads with Big Macs
Would you like fries with that learning object? OK, maybe not yet, but when free digital content is being given away with McDonald's hamburgers, you can tell from that just how disposable digital content really is. More...
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