Integrating Content Management With Digital Rights Management
In a report sponsored by ContentGuard, the authors discuss the use of digital rights in content management systems. Some good diagrams illustrate fairly clearly the mechanisms involved. No mention of Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL), the major competitor to ContentGuard's XrML. More...
Education Network Australia: Discover, Communicate, Collaborate!
History and description of Education Network Australia (EdNA), the major educational metadata standards body Down Under. Future work for EdNA includes plans to "establish and extend online knowledge networks, by stimulating the growth of online learning communities through setting up and maintaining hubs, networks and partnerships." Worth noting in this plan (and I wonder how some EDUCAUSE delegates reacted) was a committment by EdNA was a committment to open source and a distributed resource discovery system. More...
The Transformed Academy
Pretty good slide show (though it starts slowly with a few hackneyed cliches ('Technology is the tool, not the...') outlining four major areas of change faced by universities: mission and markets, organizational structure, leadership, and assessment. More...
An Expeditionary Approach to E-Knowledge
A forward looking presentation arguing that "software systems that enable e-learning, knowledge management, and performance support will merge their capabilities. The resulting e-knowledge capabilities will enable a fresh set of 'killer apps' involving the sharing of e-knowledge." I think that's true, and I think they're a lot closer than many people think. More...
Secret Standards Business?
Some great links from last week's EDUCAUSE Australia, thanks to the good people from The Networker. More tomorrow. In this first item: many have thought this, but few have come right out and said it. The standards building process sometimes resembles a secret society, with its own (canonical) vocabularity, meetings in exotic places, and a special handshake. More...
From Thinkers to Clickers: The World Wide Web and the Transformation of the Essence of Being Human
This article tries to argue that our inclination to click our way through the world wide web has become a substitute for thinking. Oh for the days of the book, pines the author, when the delay of several hours or days before the next one arrives would give us time to think about, and perhaps even understand, the last one. More...
Canada's Advanced Technology Business Plan
Not actually a plan, this document is a set of recommendations forwarded by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) based on a survey of city executives and business leaders across Canada. It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of major Canadian cities with respect to innovation in technology and offers suggestions based on that assessment. More...
Is Palladium Getting a Bad Rap?
Microsoft is playing the coy innocent in its reaction to the criticism it has suffered since announced its 'trusted computing' (or as Richard Stallman styles it, 'treacherous computing') platform. In this article, MS developer Mario Juarez responds, "There's this mythology surrounding NGSCB that Microsoft is in league with the media industry to override consumers' rights. That makes no sense. More...
The Web's Impact On Student Learning
The author might be the first to agree that this survey of research in web-based learning is a bit misleading, since, as she notes, there has been little effort made to distinguish between the impact of the new technology and the impact of the learning design delivered, or employed, using that technology. No matter. More...
TidBITS Policy on Challenge-Response
If you're thinking of using a challenge-response (C-R) system to block spam, think again. The idea of C-R is that if an email comes from an unrecognized source, the email is blocked until the sender, in response to an email (the 'challenge') goes to a website and answers a question only humans can answer (the 'response'). More...
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