This brief document provides an overview of e-learning in the Netherlands. Because there is no specific national program, most funding goes directly to schools. More...
What Works
What Works
This short article surveys the results of a study conducted of e-learning practices at six companies. It's an odd mix of major corporations and e-learning consulting companies (and therefore the results of this 'survey' are a little suspect). More...
Creating a Culture of Ideas
Creating a Culture of Ideas
There's a lot just under the surface of this engaging article. "To build a nation of innovators," asserts the author, "we should focus on youth, diversity, and collaboration." Well to build a nation of anything you need youth; the more salient points lie in the direction of diversity and collaboration. More...
How to Get Inside a Student's Head
How to Get Inside a Student's Head
Though Steven Pinker's track record commands respect, he is a little off the mark in this op-ed in the New York Times. Pinker first makes the observation that educators should rely more on empirical science, and in particular, cognitive science, behavioral genetics and evolutionary and developmental psychology. More...
Site to Centralize E-training
Site to Centralize E-training
The U.S. government is finalizing plans to centralize e-learning provided by various government agencies under one roof. Office of Management and Budget launched the Government Online Learning Center in July of 2002 and on Wednesday launched the second phase of the program, which includes new features and enhancements to the site. More...
Find an Answer in E-Learning
Find an Answer in E-Learning
This item is mostly a rehash of what readers have seen before (is there any other kind of rehash?) but provides three compact case studies of corporate e-learning: Home Depot, Ryders and Siemens. More...
Metacrap: Putting the Torch to Seven Straw Men of the Meta-Utopia
Metacrap: Putting the Torch to Seven Straw Men of the Meta-Utopia
This article is a reprint of an item that has been around since August, 2001, but the points are worth making again. But so - importantly - are the solutions. Most of the issues involve inaccurate metadata. This is why I advocate third party metadata, that is, metadata provided by neutral and qualified observers. More...
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Windows RG
Windows users and non-users alike should get a good chuckle out of Windows RG (for "Really Good"). As you use it, don't panic. More...
JamSpam: It just might save the Internet
JamSpam: It just might save the Internet
Relief against unwanted email (of which there is a lot) may be on the way as industry experts are beginning to coalesce around the idea of an industry-wide anti-spam consortium intended to create an open, royalty-free, interoperable, anti-spam protocol. More...