College Pact a Fresh Start For Napster
Students feel betrayed by Penn State administration, and with good reason. The university will begin offering the students free access to music through the revamped (and now commercial) Napster service. There won't be an extra cost (for now) - it will be paid for from the existing technology fee (begging the question: what was it being used for before?). More...
LMS Selection Site from Simon Fraser University
If you have any interest in the future of WebCT you might want to look at this site, which compares it against Desire2Learn. If Simon Fraser University selects anything other than WebCT (almost the default in British Columbia), it's all over. More...
The Mentor Initiative
Interesting item from India's The Apex Academy, offering online mentoring services to students throughout that country. More...
The Future of E-Learning Models and the Language We Use to Describe Them
On Wednesday I released the text of my interview with Mark Oehlert, which he asked me for a week or two before posting a more general request on his website. My declaration of impatience was rewarded as on Thursday he released the slides and draft from his study. More...
Extending RSS
Another article on extending RSS beyond a simple descriptions of links on blogs. This article is a bit technical, but it shows in detail how the simple syndication standard can be used to distribute all kinds of information. For example, suggests the article, a company could use RSS to list its product offerings by defining two new RSS terms, 'product' and 'version'. More...
Open Source Portfolio Initiative
From the website: " The Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) is a collaborative, open source, software development project based on the University of Minnesota System's (U of MN) electronic portfolio (ePortfolio) software." Via SiT, the OSPI has just made it's first release avaiulable as a download. More...
The RoMEO Project: Protecting Metadata in an Open Access Environment
I honestly don't know why people would make their metadata available for the world to use, and then start worrying about protecting it from use. It's the same story time after time, an open dataspace is created, people flood the space with data to take advantage of the free access, and then they start thinking about how to close off the space. More...
Open Content and Value Creation
Whe I agitate for free and open content, people are always asking me about how the writer is supposed to get paid. I respond that the writer is paid by the publisher, not by the end user, and that the publisher may be paid by any number of entities: government, corporate sponsors, foundations, or technology providers. More...
Redefining the Role of Computers in Education, The Vendors' Curricula
The interesting bit in this story it the little chart in the middle matching specific vendor websites to subjects. The idea, writes the author, is that vendors are finally matching online learning content to curricula. More...
VET Learning Object Repository - Green Paper Discussion
Some background on the (Australian) VET Green Paper we linked to here yesterday, as well as a link to the forum for discussion. More...
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