Thursday, February 03, 2005

Is Instructional Video Game an Oxymoron?. Public interest organizations are producing dozens of instructional online games that they say have become the best way to reach children and teenagers. By By MATT RICHTEL. [NYT > Technology] 11:35:01 PM      Google It!.

Do People Really Pay Attention During Online Meetings?. I once wrote a paper called Synchronous Learning on the Web in which I observed that "the less you want to be at the class or the meeting, the more you want to use some form of conferencing, because it's easier and - especially if you're online - you can do other things at the same time." As this article makes clear, I am not the only person to have reached that conclusion. "90 percent of audio conferencers multitask by doing things other than paying full attention to meeting content." What surprises me most, I think, is that ten percent of attendees are paying full attention. By Robin Good, Kolabora, February 02, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 5:03:57 PM      Google It!.

plasticbag.org | weblog | (Weblogs and) The Mass Amateurisation of (Nearly) Everything... [Edubloggers Links Feed] 1:41:57 PM      Google It!.

Building Educational Portals atop Digital Libraries - Sean Fox, Cathy Manduca, and Ellen Iverson; D-Lib Magazine. The Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College (SERC) builds educational portals on an infrastructure suffused with digital library technologies and sensibilities. Yet our users—largely geoscience faculty looking for resources and informati [Online Learning Update] 1:38:51 PM      Google It!.

A Holistic Perspective on the Student Dropout Problem with Special Attention to e-Learning - Zane L. Berge and Yi-Ping Huang, DEOSNews. This article introduces a comprehensive model to assist institutions in planning for interventions to address student dropout and to increase student retention. The model is the result of an extensive review, analysis, and synthesis of research and th [Online Learning Update] 1:37:42 PM      Google It!.

Effects of Person-Centered Attitudes on Professional and Social Competence - Renate Motschnig-Pitrik and Katharina Mall, JETS. Web-based technology increases the hours we spend sitting in front of the screens of our computers. But can it also be used in a way to improve our social skills? The blended learning paradigm of Person-Centered e-Learning (PCeL) precisely aims to ach [Online Learning Update] 1:36:46 PM      Google It!.

IMS Content Packaging & Content Interoperability Call-for-Issues. Announced by IMS today, this review will look at the content packaging specification with the intent to "enable the managed exchange of any content package-based data model using web services (including the usage of attachments to the SOAP messages)." Because the specification has been opened, a call for issues and suggestions has been made; the committee is expected to start looking at the specification at the end of March with a proposal due in October. Interestingly (and oddly - but hey, it works), submissions are to be made through the IMS problem tracking form. By Press Release, IMS Global learning Consortium, February 2, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 9:28:36 AM      Google It!.

Sun Enters Grid-Computing Rental Market [Slashdot:] 9:20:26 AM      Google It!.

Open Source is Not a Career Path [Slashdot:] 9:10:25 AM      Google It!.

Webcams Transport Virtual Visitors. For personal encounters that go beyond e-mail and instant messaging, nothing is faster and more revealing than video chatting, as the trend is called. By By EVA HAGBERG. [NYT > Technology] 9:07:03 AM      Google It!.

incsub - alternative online teaching and learning [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:03:32 AM      Google It!.

Googling the Bottom Line. Ranking high on a Google search is advantageous for businesses, but how much is it really worth? Depends on who's tailoring the results. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. [Wired News] 8:48:46 AM      Google It!.

Fingerprints Replace Credit Cards in Seattle [Slashdot:] 8:44:06 AM      Google It!.

PDA Sales Fall for Third Year in Row [Slashdot:] 8:40:52 AM      Google It!.

image of 'open source stack'. from "Will Open Source Software Unlock the Potential of eLearning?" By Christopher D. Coppola http://www.campus-technology.com/news_article.asp?id=10299&;typeid=155" [Edubloggers Links Feed] 8:37:51 AM      Google It!.

Educational Community License Receives OSI Certification [Edubloggers Links Feed] 8:36:48 AM      Google It!.

Open-Source Software - in Support of Educational Research [Edubloggers Links Feed] 8:35:41 AM      Google It!.

Repository Proposal to Mellon. example of a proposal from Johns Hopkins to Mellon on comparative analysis of (institutional) repository software [Edubloggers Links Feed] 8:34:11 AM      Google It!.