Attendre le suitcase . . .
I'm not sure what the educational angle is here, but I'm sure there is one and this article has so many great one-liners I just had to include it. The premise is that airlines would lose luggage less frequently if the luggage were equipped with more intelligence. More...
House Passes Bill to Give Future Teachers Free Tuition
I cannot help but to wryly comment that some jurisdictions are finally understanding the value of learning - and teaching - to a society. More...
Instant Messenger is Not Your Enemy
In this article, Elliott Masie discovers instant messaging. Some useful statistics ("8.8 million AOL IM users, 4.8 million MSN IM users and 3.4 million Yahoo! IM users") and background. Not mentioned in the survey is ICQ, the grand-daddy of instant messaging (since ICQ is now owned by AOL it may be lumped in with AOL-IM, above, but it is important to keep in mind that AOL-IM and ICQ are completely separate services). I have used ICQ for many years - my ICQ number is 1287181 for those of you who wish to give me a toodle. More...
Chat Room Chatter May Lead to Real Romance
People still say that online communities are cold and impersonal places to learn. My response has always been to point tothe many deep relationships that develop online. Now a study backs up my point. More...
Adobe Launches Adobe Xchange Web Site for Designers and Developers
For those of you who use Adobe products you may find Adobe's newly launched online user community to be of interest. More...
Not quite complete but the closest thing there is, according to Freedom of Scholarship advocate Peter Suber, this portal provides listings of numerous free online academic journals. More...
Open Knowledge and Open Source Initiatives: An Interview with MIT's Phil Long
Not as detailed as it could be, but this article is nonetheless a useful discussion of MIT's open courseware and the related Open Knowledge Initiative. The article takes direct aim at the question of why people can't take the MIT content and the MIT online learning environment and say that they're offering an MIT course. More...
Drafting a Faculty Copyright Ownership Policy
This article discusses the use of a university-wide copyright ownership policy that clarifies the needs and rights of institution as well as faculty, staff and students. Of course the main point of such a policy is to resolve disputes that may arise between the institution and staff, but the author suggests that the process of drafting such a policy can be a useful collaborative process. More...
A different take on the question of why people drop out of online courses: the number of dropouts, argues the author, doesn't matter. More...
Is the Information Revolution Dead?
This article comparing the information revolution to technological revolutions of the past suggests that while there is no guarantee of a goldern age of internet technology, the recent collapse of the dot com industry is typical and that we should expect the information revolution to continue. More...
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