EduTopia
This is a neat idea: "In addition to our top current stories, our new "random generation" feature serves you two different home page articles on each visit! The feature pulls articles from our deep well of over 400 articles and interviews, placing two pieces in our "From the Archives" section each time you refresh the site. More...
Do We Really Use Only 10 Percent of our Brains?
The answer to the question, offered in this Scientific American article, is no. If you think about it, "Losing far less than 90 percent of the brain to accident or disease has catastrophic consequences." There is a great deal of myth surrounding how the brain functions. More...
SA, India, Brazil Outline Co-Operation
Distance learning is a part of this agreement, just signed in New Delhi by South Africa, India and Brazil. More...
Patrick Henry College Grooming Conservative Leaders
One of the outcomes of online learning has been enhanced support for home schooling. And one of the outcomes of the rising home schooling movement has been the development of colleges that target support to this sector. However, this development has been noted with concern by some, since the movement has allowed for the development of educational institutions with specific political and religious leanings. More...
Merger For Rival RSS/ATOM Formats?
I think we're still a long way away from merging the various content syndication formats, but the discussion was ignited again over the weekend with a proposal from RSS 2.0 advocate Dave Winer that such a merger occur. More...
Copyright, Access and Digital Texts
Good overview of the case for open access to educational materials, with a lot of links later on in the paper to open content projects. More...
A Method of Evaluating Training
Nice short white paper describing what the author calls the DMAIC methodology for training return on investment (ROI). DMAIC stands for Design, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control. More...
Blackboard Inc., Partners with Leading Academic Publishers
Blackboard continues to make news as it announces a deal to integrate various learning applications into the LMS. According to the press release, "The development project, titled 'ChalkBox,' will go beyond simple importation of textbook-related electronic content to accommodate more sophisticated integration between the publishers' hosted instructional applications and Blackboard-powered course web sites at client institutions." Partners in the project include Houghton Mifflin, Pearson Education and Thomson Higher Education. More...
Learning to do Social Science Research in the Knowledge Economy: A Manifesto
Gosh, I love papers with the word 'manifesto' in the title. And while the topic of this tract diverges a bit from the usual e-learning fare, it is a nice counterpoint to Jay Cross's comments on edubabble and also some of the discussions I have had here about research methodology in public policy. More...
Calendar extension for NewsGator
Not sure how this will play out, since we're mixing Outlook, a NewsGator extension, and RSS 2.0 (none of which bodes well for portability), but the discussion in the RSS community has turned to events listings. This is something that has been needed for a while, and forms another bit of glue in the semantic social network. More...
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