Superarchives Could Hold All Scholarly Output
Useful article looking at alternatives to scholarly publication in journals. The bulk of the article is devoted to what are called superarchives. These are essentially collections of materials hosted by a single university and intended to contain that institution's professors' research output. More...
Top 10 Best Practices for Voice User Interface Design
I absolutely hate those telephone menu systems that take you through three menus, then hang up. And while voice recognition is not mature technology, it holds the best promise of allowing customers more immediate access to information or services. More...
Call for Input on Digital Rights Management
A high powered group attempting to "define the industry standard for a rights language" that would govern many application domains including digital libraries and archives. More...
Getting Administrators up to Speed
The last people to innovate, they say, are the administrators. To judge by the number of administrators I have met over the years who still struggle with email, there is truth to this adage. More...
How to Design Recyclable Learning Objects
Some good points in this cynical look at learning objects. Promoters of the concept need to worry when it is observed, with some justification, that "content is harder to recycle than design." More...
Canadian Students' Access to and Use of Information and Communication Technology
Research on the responses of nearly 30,000 15-year old Canadian students showing that the vast majority of them (88%) have access to a computer at home. Some international comparisons are included in the report and the overall results suggest that universal access is nearly a reality. More...
What's Important in a Learning Content Management System
The most fun part of this otherwise vague article on what to look for in a learning content management system (LCMS) is the list of bad ideas at the end of the article. More...
MMS to Overtake SMS Messaging by 2005 - Ericsson
Interesting item that predicts that multimedia messeging (MMS) will overtake simple text-based messaging (SMS) within the next three years. Though wireless multimedia email and website marketing has largely failed, multimedia messaging will be big because it satisfies a demand. More...
Cherri M. Pancake on Usability Engineering
With a name like Cherri M. Pancake you may be tempted to think of her as the Faith Popcorn of usability. You may grow even more sceptical when you read that her qualifications include six years studying the Mayan Indians at the Ixchel Ethnological Museum in Guatemala. More...
McGraw Hill Wants $263,000 From State
This item raises so many issues I just had to run it, even though it doesn't deal directly with online learning (saving grace: the article does contain the word 'website'). In brief: because so many students were failing a standard exam, one slated to become a graduation requirement, a court ordered McGraw Hill to release the questions. More...
/https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
