Investigation into the Part-time work of Pupils in Britain and Germany
One of the reasons people tout online learning is the ability of flexible delivery to support students who have jobs. This survey looks at the types, impact and pay for working students in Britain and in Germany. More than half the students in both countries are working. More...
TMAGIC Bank
MAGIC stands for "Media Activities and Good Ideas by, with and for Children." Created by UNICEF, it is a resource bank where you can find media about a variety of topics, including rights, democracy, citizenship, and more. More...
Turning Schools Into Profit Centers
This article highlights some of the dangers of the 'pay for performance' model being adopted in the U.S. education system. In a nutshell, "schools operating in such 'corporatized' environments have, in due course, adopted some of the tricks of the Enrons and WorldComs, fudging the numbers and hiding the losses to inflate their performance." The article is also critical of short-term indicators of success, such as high stakes exams, suggesting instead that schools should be perhaps evaluated on the number of graduates who go on to college. More...
Down and Out in the Magic Kindgom
Cory Doctorow's book is available for free download at this site. And it has been downloaded a lot: 20,000 times. So what's it doing moving steadily up the Amazon sales rank chart? Proving that free does not mean commercial disaster. More...
Assessing Learning Management Systems
This article examines some key issues "critical to the function of any enterprise management system." They are: high availability, scalability, usability, interoperability, stability, and security. It's not a bad list, but it's not a great one. More...
Dismay as BBC Gets E-learning Go-ahead
No bias in this headline! The BBC has won the right to provide free digital educational resources to schools, as it should. The thought of making it illegal for a government to provide resources to its own schools is ridiculous. More...
National Sciences Digital Library
Now we're getting somewhere. The first release of the National Sciences Distributed Library (NSDL) is now available, offering a search and browse through a variety of science related research libraries. More...
From the Capital to the Classroom: State and Federal Efforts to Implement the No Child Left Behind Act
Educators in the United States will find this assessment of the "No Child Left Behind Act" interesting in its own right - it states that while the states are generally supportive of the objectives of the act, they may balk if the provisions are enforced too rigidly and if financial support is not there. More...
Robotics Replaces Industrial Arts in Shop Classes of Today
When I was in school the closest we came to anything industrial was the creation of abstract metal sculptures and drilling a hole through the wall with an oxy-acetylene torch. It's a bit different in classrooms today as "shop" has been replaced with a much wider - and useful - curriculum. More...
You've Got Gym: School Offers PE Classes Online
Online gym. Yes, it can be done - putting to flight yet another long-held myth about online learning. It's not all reading and filling in forms, thankfully. More...
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