Does Policy Make a Difference? An Exploration into Policies for Distance Education
Study of distance edeucation policies and enrollments at five west and midwest U.S. colleges (generalize at your own risk). The answer to the question posed above is, "Yes, but not as much of an influence as you might think." Early adopters and early majority indtructors will adopt distance learning no matter what the policy says; indeed, they tend to thrive in a policy vacuum. More...
IMS Simple Sequencing Approved
You may have forgotten about this, but Simple Sequencing is a way of describing how a student can navigate through a body of learning material. This article provides an update (IMS has approved the spec) and some criticisms. More...
Scholars scour eBay
Nice look at the twin-edged sword eBay provides to academic researchers seeking original materials (such as, say, a copy of Whitman that was owned by Thoreau). On the one hand, the online aution makes it possible for devotees everywhere to acquire rare or obscure material. More...
NewsBooster, the company ordered by a Danish court last year to cease deep linking to news articles, is circumventing the court order by using a peer-to-peer network instead. More...
The Coming of Copyright Perpetuity
The New York Times speaks out against the indefinite extension of copyright. More...
Presentation to Management
Worth taking a quick look, this presentation from Jay Cross to 36 members of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association was built on ideas submitted by readers and prersents a refreshingly anti-establishment look at e-learning. More...
Payloads for RSS
An "enclosure" is an RSS link that points to a large digital object, such as Grateful Dead song sored in MP3. The purpose of enclosures is to enable high-bandwidth tansactions - such as the downloading of said song - to occur in the middle of the night so that the resulting multimedia will pop up fresh, fast and local the next day. More...
One Standard for All: Why We Don't Want It, Why We Don't Need It
If you are wondering where I was (and hence, where OLDaily was) yesterday, I was at Athabasca University's Edmonton office delivering this talk to a number of combative distance learning instructors, designers and administration. More...
The Impact of Computer-Based Testing on Student Attitudes and Behavior
This article describes the development of a proctored computer-based testing facility used to administer tests outside of regular class hours, thus freeing class hours for instruction. A cynic would suggest that this serves mostly to increase the number of hours in a class, thus creating class hours. No matter. More...
Promoting Learning with Personalized Newsletters
There is a lot to like in the learning model adopted by NCR Corporation and described in this article. The good bit starts about a third of the way through with a description of the "MyNCRU Personal Learning News" email newsletter. More...
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