Thomson Signs Agreement with Cardean University to Offer Online M.B.A. Degree
The Thomson Corporation has taken another major step in its quiet campaign to be the leading provider of online learning by signing an exclusive distribution agreement with Cardean University courses to corporate clients. It's an MBA, which means they're still cherry-picking, but expect a wider range of offerings to follow this initial foray. More...
Maintaining the Delicate Balance: Distance Learning, Higher Education Accreditation, and the Politics of Self-Regulation
Looks at some of the "delicate" issues surrounding distance learning, accreditation and self-regulation. Raises some familiar issues, such as the problem of fraud in federal funding for distance programs, the reliability of accreditation for quality control in distance learning, and the question of whether wider government controls are needed. More...
Handhelds Go to Class
Cheap, portable and connected, handhelds are finding their way into the classroom - and right out again as students take their learning from the community as a whole. "Students do science experiments outdoors with computerized probes and watch graphs come alive on the spot as they enter spreadsheet data." Short article and a video. More...
User-Centered Design for Different Project Types, Part 1
How the pros do it: two senior engineers from IBM discuss features of user centered design, providing a core set of design and evaluation activities useful across a broad range of application development projects. More...
Fighting (with) Hierarchies - Part I: Basics
No, this item is not about resisting the bureaucracy (even though that's what attracted me to the item in the first place). But it is about something we have been discussing in the office recently: how best to present (and navigate through) a hierarchical menu structure. More...
Macromedia Reinvents the Web
Macromedia's big announcement, Flash MX, gets a scathing review in the O'Reilly Network: "Macromedia's Flash MX seems to be an effort to take over the Web with Flash, and discard the useless bits that Macromedia doesn't happen to control. Remember the scene in Aliens where the baby alien emerges from the guy's stomach. More...
Evaluation of Web-based Flexible Learning
There's a lot going on in this interesting and informative study looking at the evaluation of online course materials from the standpoint of the interactions between teachers and students. Some surprises - when the sum of possible interactions is considered, videoconferencing is ranked quite low. More...
Copyleft vs. Copyright: A Marxist Critique
Marxism may not be popular in, well, anywhere, but this essay raises some useful points of discussion in the current debates on copyright. One of the major contributions is the explicit linking of the copyright debate with the commodification of information. More...
A Mythic Perspective of Commodification on the World Wide Web
This article proposes that the increasing commodification of the web is reflected in the change of the foundational mythology of the web as described by Wired in three articles between 1994 and 2000. I cannot believe that the author overlooks my own essay, The Rise and Fall of Wired, in this discussion which is, to my knowledge, the most detailed analysis of Wired's shifting orientation in the first six years of its existence. More...
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