Research Group to Release Technical Standards for Its Free Course-Management Software
You can almost feel the online learning community leaning forward in its collective chair, waiting to hear from the the Open Knowledge Initiative as the organization prepares to release a set of common services specifications, standards that will be required for interoperativity between their open source learning management system and third part applications and content. More...
McGraw-Hill, NYTimes Team on Digital Content
There's not too much too this item just yet, but the gist is that the New York Times and McGraw-Hill are offering a co-branded service aimed at college and university students using McGraw-Hill's Higher Education Online Learning Centers. More...
E-Publisher Wins Round in Court
A small publisher wins another round in its bid to publish online versions of books the print rights for which are owned by major publishers. Random House sued RosettaBoks about a year ago. More...
The Relevance of Video Games and Gaming Consoles to the Higher and Further Education Learning Experience
Though this should be viewed as a preliminary study only, this useful article observes the rise of computer gaming as a cultural phenomenon and speculated, based on what limited research is available, on the use of gaming systems for educational purposes. More...
Ontario College of Teachers Public Register
Hughes writes in, "I just wanted to let you know that the Ontario College of Teachers also has a public register of its members available online where parents or potential employers can view a teacher's professional information like: status, status history, name history, qualifications, letter of approvals, academic history and employment history. More...
Developed by Contact North for Ontario schools, colleges and universities, this set of ten principles is a useful checklist to guide technology purchases for learning. More...
Brain Power: New High-tech Networks are Helping Make Canada a 21st Century Force in Advanced Research
What is important and useful about this article is that it goes beyond a description of Canada's CA*Net4, a high speed backbone network linking universities across the country. The article is chock full of descriptions of the way the network is helping with Canadian research from genetic sequencing to nanotechnology to investment analysis. More...
Digital Rights Management and Digital Repositories
This article is a set of PowerPoint slides encoded in PDF format - probably the worst way to present information there is: it's both needlessly bulky and hard to read. Normally I wouldn't even bother linking to such a travesty of presentation but in this case you should at least skim the content. More...
Cosmology on the Internet: Distance Education for the Gifted and Talented
It's the rare paper that will teach me something new about cosmology, but this paper recently listed at LearnScope did. Specifically: "the curvature of our universe could be measured by examining how pi varies as larger and larger circles are drawn within it." Brilliant. More...
The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper
And what do you know? Yesterday, SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) released a major white paper that which asserts that institutional repositories are a natural extension of an academic institution's role as a generator of primary research, and envisions such repositories as critical components in the evolving structure of scholarly communication. More...
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