Rebuilding E-Learning Companies
Advice on how to retool your e-learning company (we all have e-learning companies, right?) to adapt to the changing marketplace. Generally sound advice, though the last suggestion - "Acquire companies" - is a bit more than most of us can manage. More...
Trust Matters
Good article which makes a point that should be obvious: trust is essential in any knowledge management initiative. This is because knowledge management requires that people share knowledge with each other. More...
Chinese Government Predicts Strong Growth in Online Education
Everybody is looking to the Orient... and the Chinese government is encouraging them with the announcement that the Ministry of Education plans to have five million students in 50 to 100 online colleges by 2005. Tere are issues. More...
Saba Throws Another Annoying Acronym in Pool
The headline reveals the tone of the article, and may I add that the problem isn't just that it's another acronym, it's a rather annoying one. The phrase 'human capital' has been making the rounds recently as a replacement for 'human resources,' but the implication is that an institutions's staff are not merely assets of a company, they are actually owned by the company, for after all, isn't capital something that is owned. More...
Pity the Science Students
This article begins with a reference to schools being connected to the internet, but the main story has to do with high school textbooks being riddled with errors. I don't see why the author mentions the internet at all; a better angle would be to suggest that the much vaunted accuracy of the traditional system of publishers and reviewers is, in fact, a smokescreen. More...
The Internet is Not Television
This is a great deconstruction of a Wired article that tries to tell us that internet users have an obligation to make online services profitable. A must-read for anybody who buys the idea that we have to charge subscriptions (or copyright fees, or other fees) in order to make online content provision (including educational content) profitable. More...
Education as Commodity
Good overview, with good links, of the issues that arise when ecucation becomes a commodity. Looks at copyright issues, faculty or author compensation, and rights management. More...
The Once and Future P2P
Interesting look at P2P (Person to Person) technologies, including an overview of Napster and similar technologies. Tries to look forward and suggests that P2P may be an alternative to search engines. More...
Organizations as Brains
Interesting article (more like a converted slide show presentation) that is kind of out there... but in a good way. The same sort of things that affect brains (getting stuck in one's ways, for example) affect organizations. More...
The Instructional Plan for Learning and Curriculum Alignment: The IPLCA
The Instructional Plan for Learning and Curriculum Alignment (IPLCA) is an instructional model that relates three majorareas of educational importance: curriculum development, learning, and technology. More...
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