Compressed musings – mostly about ICT and education

James Levin, Nicholas Burbules & Bertram Bruce write in E-Learning, 2(1): Abstract Within the existing system of education, student work rarely has any value beyond the particular course that it is created for. The work is graded and then usually discarded. The authors describe in this article a way that student work can be systematically [...]

Rachel McAlpine in New Zealand provides some Standards for online content authors: The standards on this page include non-technical standards relevant to all web authors and technical standards relevant to some web authors. I suggest you pick and choose from the long list, adapting it to your needs. The trend is towards using content management [...]

This post is something of a departure from my usual quick notes about other sites. It’s a very minor revision of my mandated report to the Faculty on conference travel. I spent the week from 26 Feb to 7 Mar traveling and attending SITE 2005 – the 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Information [...]