Children Create Virtual Companies
This is interesting... and innovative use of online learning to provide an educational experience that is part real, part simulation. Students in Japan set up virtual companies online - they don't actually sell anything, but they offer products on their website that are voted for by online visitors. More...
Knowledge Matters -- Skills and Learning for Canadians
Kind of an awkwardly designed website, but if you keep at it you will find two major policy papers on this site recently released by the government of Canada. Follow the link to the 'Knowledge Matters' paper and for a quick overview, read the detailed Executive Summary. More...
The ADL SCORM Version 1.2 Conformance Test Suite Version 1.2
ADL releases the SCORM Version 1.2 Conformance Test Suite Version 1.2 (Self Test). Available to the ADL community since last October (so some of you may have some catching up to do), this Test Suite is the one used during ADL Plugfests and other ADL events. More...
Finnish Universities Release Free VLE with Support for Educational Modelling Language (EML)
One of the first VLEs (Virtual Learning Environments) to support the Educational Modeling Language (EML), FLE3 is an open-source web-based learning environment built on the ZOPE content management platform (ZOPE is also open source). More...
Yahoo! Education
I hadn't seen this before, but Scott Wilson at CETIS flagged the new Yahoo! Education site about a week ago. Touted as a free service (of course Yahoo! Groups moderators know better, as a fee structure has just been proposed for that 'free' service), Yahoo! Education allows educators to set up a calendar and syllabus and to upload course content. More...
The Convergence Culture Clash
Another one of these items from thw world of online news, this time looking at the (eventual) convergence of television, radio and online sources. Contains useful advice for educators: note especially the old/new comparisons. More...
A good antidote to the hype surrounding web services. They are not stand-alone applications. There will not be one universal XML standard. More...
Key Case in Future of School Choice
The United States Supreme Court will hear a case tomorrow concerning an issue that is dividing educators: the question of school vouchers. Spurred by the institution of a voucher system in Cleveland, the court will hear arguments to the effect that vouchers promote school choice, and thereby, better schools. More...
Supreme Court to Hear Digital Copyright Case
The question the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Tuesday: support the extensions to copyright recently passed by the U.S. Congress (to 70 years after the death of the author) or toss aside the extensions, thereby saving thousands of books from the 1930s that are disappearing because the publishers can't make any money selling them. More...
I Stand Corrected: Reading 4,934 Pages of Franzen as an E-Book
OK, a book that runs 4,934 pages may seem a bit daunting... until you are told that's an e-book being read on a Palm Pilot. A miserable experience, right? Not so, according to this author. More...
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