Supporting Peer to Peer Interaction in Web-based Courses
Another excellent contribution from the people at the City University of Hong Kong. This well-researched article looks at and challenges your perceptions about communication in online courses. More...
Utilities Test Electric Internet
The cable and telephone companies may live to regret their dithering on broadband access. More...
Homepage Real Estate Allocation
It would be interesting to see how screen use is distributed beyond home pages. How much of available scree space is devoted to content in a typical online learning application, for example. More...
Bogus Research Uncovered
Last week I listed a background paper for a discussion on ITForum called Lean-In Technology, Safety Nets and Psychology . In this paper was cited the oft-repeated list of familiar teaching modes and retention rates. In the discussion that followed, this list came under closer scrutiny and a reader cited this article in which the author asserts bluntly that "the graph is a fraud.". More...
COL Copyright Conference
With 215 messages stored already (as of this posting), the Commonwealth of learning conference on copyright is off to a flying start. I must confess to having contributed more than my share of verbiage, but I think the discussion is worth a read by anyone interested in the issue. More...
What do you get when you combine the concepts of the wiki, Polynesia and multimedia into a single site? A lot of German text, unusual images, and an assemblage of content that befuddles the mind. More...
Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality This article is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the economics of online content. The thesis of the article is this: "In systems where many people are free to choose between many options, a small subset of the whole will get a disproportionate amount of traffic (or attention, or income), even if no members of the system actively work towards such an outcome." What results is what is called a "power law distribution," an ordering of popularity such that a small percentage of the sites attract a large percentage of the readers. More...
A defense of current copyright legislation. The author takes pains to point out that you may own copyright over certain content, and therefore benefit from copyright law. More...
Looking After Life Without Leaving Office
I have been recording my work hours recently. It is a reaction to the online recording system, the restrictions in which produce reports that are mostly fiction. It has been quite revealing. More...
La question de la prévention de la pénibilité est au cœur d’une actualité juridique importante. Ces dernières années ont connu une hausse importante des accidents du travail et arrêts maladie. Dans ce contexte, les Régies de Quartier et de Territoire doivent s’adapter aux évolutions législatives et notamment à la mise en place du compte professionnel de prévention (C2P). Plus...
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