Monday, March 4, 2002

The Chronicle interviews Nishikant Sonwalkar from MIT on distance learning. The takehome is that distance education, and learning technologies in general, need to account for individuals' personal learning styles. I agree up to a point: you don't want to force students to always learn through means that they aren't comfortable with. On the other hand, always letting someone learn through their preferred style means that they'll never have a chance to get better using other methods. Providing support for a range of learning styles splits the difference. 10:03:56 AM     A quick pitch for Project Gutenburg, which has been around for years working on digitizing texts that are no longer copyrighted: works by Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as works by lesser known authors. It's up to volunteers to decide which books should be added to the archive, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that a book by my great-great-grandfather, America through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat, was on the list. Project Gutenburg texts can be read on handhelds, converted to PDFs, printed... there are lots of ways to read them. 9:57:17 AM

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