Design and Reusability of Learning Objects in an Academic Context: A New Economy of Education?
If you missed it when I posted it on this site, the USDLA Journal has published the text of the talk I gave in Milan. More...
Design and Reusability of Learning Objects in an Academic Context: A New Economy of Education?
If you missed it when I posted it on this site, the USDLA Journal has published the text of the talk I gave in Milan. More...
FasTrac Program in Partnership with Advanced Distributed Learning
I have a couple of documents in my in-box describing in detail this recently announced initiative (so far as I know they are not publicly available so I can't link to them). More...
MPAA Spurns Digital Copyright Plans
Technology vendor groups and the recording industry have reached an agreement in the United States. The recording industry as agreed that it will not lobby for legislation requiring that digital rights be enforced in all new technology. More...
Jupiter Research Analyst Weblogs
I have mentioned before the potential use of blogs in research and other academic activities. Yesterday this was realized as Jupiter Research announced the launch of several research blogs authored by their analysts. More...
Judge: Kazaa Can Be Sued In U.S.
Proving that the court system learns very slowly from developments in other countries, a U.S. judge has ruled that file-swapping service Kazaa is subject to U.S. law. More...
New TurboTax Activation Feature Triggers Backlash
Thinking of using copy-prevention technology to protect online learning content? If so, be prepared for an angry consumer backlash. This is what happened when people who purchased a new copy of Intuit's new TurboTax software discovered it was restricted to a single computer. More...
University Edits Words of Anarchist
Although it is raising funds to support its collection of her papers, UC Berkeley does not want you to read the following two quotes from Emma Goldman work: In one of the quotations, from 1915, Goldman called on people "not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them." More...
The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)
Interesting article picked up by elearningpost discussing advertising, marketing and the subconscious mind. The connections to education are obvious. More...
Brains, Minds and Teaching
I wish I had the full text version of this item and not just the slide show, because I'm not sure I agree with it in its details. But there is a lot to chew on in this HTML version of a PowerPoint presentation connecting current brain function research and teaching methodology. More...
Beyond the Blackboard
Keeping things traditional and in-class, today's whiteboard is depicted in this article as an alternative not to the blackboard, but to the laptop. More...