Enterprise Learning
A lot of fascinating discussion in this report from the E-Learning Forum's session on Enterprise Learning. Representatives from the largest Silicon Valley e-learning companies got together to discuss the state of the industry. More...
Today's Lesson, Sponsored By...
What I have to ask is, what are people thinking when they have Dunkin Donuts sponsor a school party, Oscar Mayer sponsor a student singing contest (of the corporate jingle), or Angel Soft toilet paper give prizes to students for community service? We want children to be receptive to the information they receive in school - that's the whole point, isn't it? - and these companies pay what amounts to a pittance for exclusive access to this receptivity. More...
InfoWorld Trials RSS-Based Advertising
As users of Edu_RSS know, RSS spam is already a problem. So this announcement that InfoWorld is the "first" to plant advertisements in its RSS feeds is a bit of a problem (I doubt that they're first - NewsTrolls ran RSS feeds for its Cafe Press gear ages ago), but we'll leave that aside). More...
Backlash Brews Over Rising Cost of College
This is a crisis that has been long in the making, as colleges and universities invariably respond to any business problem (rising expenses, declining enrollments, losing football teams) with tuition increases. More...
Proceedings of the Fourth National Technology Leadership Summit: Open Resources in Education
Detailed discussion of the concept of an "Educational Source Forge," a free and open source repository for educational materials. More...
Idea City 2003 Notes
So you may have been wondering where I have been these last few days. Idea City, a three day fest of speakers from a wide variety of disciplines, turns out to be an immersive affair with scarcely enough time to breathe, much less post newsletters. More...
Rights Clearning House
This Canadian site advertises itself as "the easy way to license music online." It uses a wizard to help you search for the tracks you want to use, calculate cost based on number of copies, and pay online using your credit card. More...
Tablet PCs: Ready for Prime Time
Good comprehensive overview of available Tablet PCs, the new system designed to allow people to take handwritten notes on a light, portable and connected computer. This article treads the cautious waters between hype and scepticism, providing reviews of about a dozen brands, while delving deeply into the platform's capacities and limitations. More...
Standardization Progress: A Report from IEEE LTSC Meetings
Update from the recent IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) meetings in Paris. Of interest is the committee's reactions to criticisms from CETIS and elsewhere about royalty-free access to learning object metadata standards: essentially, they have set up a committee to study the matter and the beta version of the standard remains available for access. More...
This article is everything its title advertises it to be, a quick read and overall guide to self-published articles on the internet. One of its strengths is a list of links to existing eprints repositories. More...
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