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27 février 2018

Cave Of Dreams: Simulations in Higher Education

Cave Of Dreams: Simulations in Higher Education
It seems like pre-history, but it was only eight or nine years ago that my colleague Jeff McLaughlin and I developed the Painted Porch MAUD, a multi-user learning learning environment based on a MUD (or, as most educators would say, a MOO, though a MOO really is quite different technically). I mention this because one of my pride and joys in the Painted Porch was a simulation of Plato's Cave - Jeff and I were philosophy instructors, after all. More...

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27 février 2018

SmartForce to Buy Centra in $284 Million Stock Deal

SmartForce to Buy Centra in $284 Million Stock Deal
As the headline suggests, Centra, known for its real-time virtual classrooms, is to be acquired in a $284 million stock deal by SmartForce, known mostly for its e-learning content but also for its LMS and content creation tools. More...

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27 février 2018

Stanford Online Courselets

Stanford Online Courselets
Welcome to a new bit of jargon. The 'courselet' is defined as "a self-contained, integrated set of learning materials designed as a custom tutorial and offered online in support of Stanford engineering, science and engineering management courses." More...

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27 février 2018

Intellectual Improprieties

Intellectual Improprieties
Did you know someone was granted a patent in 1998 for 'training with manuals'? Or that someone else has a 1996 patent for a computerized data representation technique we all know as 'pie charts'? These are two extreme examples cited in this short article describing some of the U.S. Patent Office's larger errors. More...

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27 février 2018

A Crash Course on E-Learning Portals

Introductory article on the topic of online learning portals. The article stresses the need for the portals to be platform neutral, especially from the point of view of the user. More...

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27 février 2018

How to Evaluate a Content Management System

Nice article that presents a fairly complete step-by-step account of how to evaluate a content management system. More...

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27 février 2018

Let Them Eat IT: The Myth of the Global Village as an Interactive Utopia

Let Them Eat IT: The Myth of the Global Village as an Interactive Utopia
I will be upfront and admit that I am a McLuhanist. Communications technology extends our senses and this to a large degree eliminates spatial boundaries, bringing communication (and hence information and empowerment) to humanity as a whole, not just to the world's elites. More...

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27 février 2018

Celestia

Cool: Celestia is an 3D space simulation for Unix and Win32 that lets you travel through the solar system, to the stars, and even beyond the galaxy. More...

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27 février 2018

Object Lessons: Towards an Educational Theory of Technology

Object Lessons: Towards an Educational Theory of Technology
This article starts out sounding like a restatement of the standard David Noble refrain: that there is a great push toward integrating technology into education, and that the purpose of this is to turn education into a commodity. As I have observed elsewhere, there is a point to this claim, but we should not confuse the use of technology with the drive to create a for-profit commercial education system. More...

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27 février 2018

Globalization of Information: Intellectual Property Law Implications

Survey article reflecting the trends toward more stringent and global harmonization of copyright legislation. More...

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