Access Management, the Key to a Portal
The authors describe exactly the wroing way to go about creative a subject-specific portal with access to a wide range of materials, but because so many people are interested in this model the paper is of some relevance. At the heart of this model is a bilateral agreement between the institution and the content provider. More...
College Students Bond Over File-Swapping Suit
Students at the normally conservative Michigan Technological University rallied in support of one of their colleagues after he was sued by the RIAA for sharing online music. More...
Software Bullet Is Sought to Kill Musical Piracy
I think that this is more of a scare tactic than anything real. But according to this report, the music industry is "quietly financing the development and testing of software programs that would sabotage the computers and Internet connections of people who download pirated music, according to industry executives." It's not clear that the industry is on safe legal ground. More...
RSS Feeds Into Blackboard
A demonstration of RSS feeds in Blackboard. Screenshots and scripts. Heh. So much for vendor-specific libraries of content. More...
Corante on Blogging
After much urging (including a missive from your truely) Corante has finally added RSS feeds for its regular blogs. There's a full list here; some of them will be added to Edu_RSS. More...
The Roadmap to Redesign
We can forgive, I guess, the Center for Academic Transformation for its use of a now cliched phrase in its title. More...
The Algebra of RSS Feeds
Useful first steps toward defining a notation for the manipulation of the contents of RSS feeds, including accounts of feed splitting, splicing, subtracting and more. More...
Actionable Sense, Networks and Purpose
Interesting item, based on the concept that "meaning and full extension of skills (and self, too) occur within the social context of a project that has a contextual and social purpose - an objective to focus the deployment of skills. Then we have actionable sense." This idea is used to defined the development of 'ad hoc networks' that collect those skills within an organization that can meet the stated objective. More...
How Boring is the E-Learning Market
Reflections from an e-learning conference held recently in Britain. Cynical reflections. "The industry stages very predictable events where: publishers argue that there should be more emphasis on e-learning content; software companies argue that there should be more emphasis on tools; and learning theorists want to see more collaboration between learners and more attention on 'pedagogy' in general." Yup. More...
Truth about High School
An unpopular high school validictorian, elected as a joke, tells it like it is. "I am not the most popular person, not even close," he wrote. More...
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