Early Scores on SAT Test Posted Online for a Price
Early Scores on SAT Test Posted Online for a Price
I think that there's something just wrong about this: for an extra fee, students can now register online and obtain their SAT scores early. More...
Welcome to Your Future Internet
Welcome to Your Future Internet
This article is a little pie-in-the-sky but as the opening paragraph says, somewhere in the world some people are doing these things right now. What things. More...
DigitalConsumer.org
DigitalConsumer.org
In response to the increasingly restrictive conditions placed on the use of digital materials demanded by publishers, a newly formed group, DigitalConsumer.org, is advocating a Consumer Technology Bill of Rights that will positively assert a consumer's rights to fair use. More...
Click Lit Hm.
Click Lit Hm.
This is a technology that looks like it will be neatly in place just at about the same time it becomes obsolete. The idea of publishing on demand has been around for a while - I can remember Xerox pitching it hard about four years ago - but the technologies needed to make it actually work are only now coming into place. More...
ICT Advice
ICT Advice
A new service launched this month to provide help and tools for classroom teachers, senior managers, subject co-ordinators and ICT co-ordinators in the UK. An interesting approach: I liked the "ask an expert" feature where each topic is supported with a panel of people ready with answers. More...
Web Site Lets Kentucky Parents Check Teachers' Credentials
Web Site Lets Kentucky Parents Check Teachers' Credentials
This is interesting. Kentucky parents and citizens now can search a single web site to find out the credentials of every public school teacher in the state using the Kentucky Educational Professional Standards Board (EPSB) Teacher Certification Inquiry web site. More...
Online Portal Aimed at Helping Doctors
Online Portal Aimed at Helping Doctors
The interesting thing about this item is the introduction of the concept of the "personal learning project" as employed by doctors as part of their ongoing professional development. Doctors to create their own personal learning projects using an electronic Web diary. More...
Optimal E-Learning Utilization: A Win-Win
Optimal E-Learning Utilization: A Win-Win
This item looks at the reasons employees resist e-learning and offers suggestions for reducing that resistance. The usual suspects are indicted: "People may resist e-Learning because it can feel cold and impersonal. It creates a participant-centric environment that requires initiative and effort. More...
Making Sense of Learning Specifications & Standards: A Decision Maker's Guide to their Adoption
Making Sense of Learning Specifications & Standards: A Decision Maker's Guide to their Adoption
Contains one of the better explanations of why we need standards, which is worth repeating here. Standards enable:
- Interoperability - can the system work with any other system?
- Re-usability - can courseware (Learning Objects, or "chunks") be re-used?
- Manageability - can a system track the appropriate information about the learner and the content?
- Accessibility - can a learner access the appropriate content at the appropriate time?
- Durability - will the technology evolve with the standards to avoid obsolescence. More...