On Search: Metadata
D'Arcy Norman pointed me to this interesting article about some of the practical issues surrounding metadata and searching. Writes Norman, "We've seen the same limitations he lists for "hand collected metadata" - metadata that's manually entered by users. More...
The Aeffability of Knowledge Management
Patrick Lambe is concerned about the "obsessive fascination with the idea of knowledge as content, as object, and as manipulable artefact." This essay addresses that concern and describes the relation between knowledge and objects, learning and language. More...
New Study Shows Kids Who Use Net Get Better Grades, Scores
I have seen this result elsewhere, including a major British study. "Low-income children who spend a good deal of time on the Web do slightly better in school than children who don't." Not everything improves, though. More...
A Look at Recent User Level Activity in the RSS World
The point of this interesting survey is to look at RSS adoption in the corporate and consulting community. Thus we see technology analyst firms, such as Forrester and Jupiter Research, using the format, as well as publishers, magazines and businesses. More...
RDF: Ready for Prime Time
After RSS, we will be hearing a lot about RDF (first we will hear many more long debates about whether RSS should be expressed in RDF, but never mind that). If you need an off the cuff understanding of RDF, think of it this way: XML is a way to ascribe properties to objects, while RDF is a way to make statements about objects. More...
The Blogging Process
Via Seb, this item is a detailed and pretty accurate look at the blogging process. The diagram will grab your eye and focus your attention, but read the commentary too. Note the time estimates. More...
VET Learning Object Repository
Australia is moving ahead very quickly with learning objects and this Green Paper - undated except for the year - looks at the need to establish eductaion and training guidelines for learning objects and poses a series of questions related to the design and implementation of such a system. More...
Design, Standards and Reusability
In order to use a learning design with a set of objects, the learning design must specify the objects to be used, and if the objects to be used are specified, then the learning design is not reusable. More...
Elearning, By Any Other Name...
Discussion of the idea that a person could learn simply by using Google. Clark Quinnresponds, "I'm concerned that someone's going to try to push the view that a factoid dribble is an elearning solution. Which might prevent people from working to solve the tough components of the problem: context model, content model, user model." Fair enough. I clarify my position in this dialogue and several people chime in about the definition of e-learning. More...
Beautiful Minds
Via Kairosnews, this link points to an interesting discussion of the (possible) correlation between a teacher's looks and the evaluations given by the class. More...
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