A Field Guide to Learning Objects
It's bad enough trying to read this bulky PDF file on the 24K connection available to me here in Memramcook. But it's worse when I go through the agony - stalling everything else on my computer in the process (Acrobat Reader is a resource hog) - only to find that the content is not what I expected. More...
A fascinating concept. From the article: "This article explores the development of a distributed open opinion layer, which is given the generic name of TOOL. More...
After the Dot-Bomb: Getting Web Information Retrieval Right This Time
This is a pretty good article that reviews some of the hard earned lessons about information retrieval learned during the recent dot crash. More...
A World of Opportunity
Power Point Slides from my presentation yesterday. A bit sketchy, as slides usually are; at some point I will follow up with an article. In a nutshell: creators of online learning should move away from the centralized 'publishing' model of the internet and embrace the distributed 'communications' model. More...
Finnish Virtual University
Launched in English "just hours ago", unilingual readers such myself can now browse through "information about the on-line services offered by the Finnish Virtual University and by all the universities in Finland, specifically, on-line courses and support services that are available to students and instructors." More...
Safety Fears Limit Online Learning
Well, think this through. Would you keep students home from school because they might meet strangers on the street, catch a virus, hear foul language, or otherwise encounter some form of danger? Of course not (though you would try to ensure a safer neighbourhood). More...
Video Games Stimulate Learning
This BBC item in today's elearningpost is accompanied by a BBC article from last November headlined "Learning games do not boost results." Perhaps the authors of elearningpost were using cut-and-paste to make a wry comment (I wish they would use their keyboard to make wry comments, but that's another issue). More...
Observations on Training 2002
The second good article in as many days posted to the ELearningLeaders group, this item is a summary of reactions to the Training 2002 Conference just held in Atlanta. More...
The Myth of Interactivity on the Internet
Of course not everybody would agree with the author's one-sentence assessment of online learning ("If learning is learning with people, then elearning is learning with content.") and when he says "the internet" he mostly means the web. Still. More...
Pricing Changes by Blackboard and WebCT Cost Some Colleges More -- Much More
We all knew that the less expensive learning management systems - notably WebCT and Blackboard - would be raising prices. Right? But what price increases! According to this article, WebCT's new system, Vista, will cost in the six figures for most colleges. More...
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