Providers Have To Start Putting Excitement Into E-learning
Why did the state of Victoria withdraw an ambitious online training program intended to teach 55,000 teachers about harassment and related issues? Administrators say it was due to be withdrawn at the end of 2002, but the author suggests that its withdrawal after reaching only 68 percent of its intended audience tells a different story. More...
Who Goes There? Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy
This is about as awkwardly presented as an online publication can get, as each page is presented as a GIF image, but the content is compelling. In this report, the authors examine the concept of user identification - passwords, public keys and biometrics - from the standpoint of personal privacy and find current approaches sorely lacking. More...
Coping With Digital Rights Management
Slides from my presentation on digital rights at the eduSource Industry Forum last week in Toronto. In that presentation I went into an interesting digression on the nature of learning objects. Here was my argument in a nutshell (printed here because it doesn't exist like this elsewhere). Yes, the reference to a certain prop is real. More...
Home Schoolers Get Out Of The House
I personally don't see how people have time to home-school their children. But maybe that's just me. In any case, this article is about a welcome trend: getting home-schooled children out of the home and into the community. It begins with things like volleyball tournaments. More...
Freedom in E-Learning
Five posts from my participation in a recent IFETS discussion around a theory of e-learning. I focus on the suggestion that learning requires a curriculum and propose instead that e-learning allows us to introduce freedom to learning. More...
The IFLA Internet Manifesto
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has started circulating emails to various mailing lists asking for feedback on its Manifesto on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation. More...
Universities To Be Sued Over Music Downloads
Though the reporting is no doubt factually correct, this article from Britain's Times Online is nonetheless a skewed and misleading piece (and shame on them for doing it). In the second paragraph we see an unsubstantiated, highly debatable, and yet unqualified assessment of losses suffered by the music industry. More...
Terms and conditions apply - what went wrong?
Alastair Creelman, The corridor of uncertainty, 2018/03/28
More on the same issue. More...
How American Media Failed (at) Democracy, Society, and Reality
Umair Haque, Medium, 2018/03/28
What I want to ask by posting this item is whether educational institutions are passing this basic test. Not just American institutions, but all educational institutions. More...
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