Sunday, June 27, 2004

The Open Source Paradigm Shift [Slashdot] interesting read as well as a historical perspective on the move to services 10:12:17 AM      Google It!.

ADULT LEARNERS AND HYPERMEDIA ENVIRONMENTS - Rick Reis, Tomorrow's Professor. The posting is an extensive discussion on how to promote effective online, e-learning . It is from Chapter 5, From Text to e-Text - Message Design, in E-ffective Writing for e-Learning Environments, by Katy Campbell. "....The instructional paradigm is [Online Learning Update] 9:27:26 AM      Google It!.

Smart Systems Threaten More Jobs Than Outsourcing [Slashdot] The increasing reliance on "smart systems" makes a real difference when students consider future careers because by the time a student has become educationally qualified for a "management" position the smart system may be already doing the job.  There are some types of  careers that involve human interaction and interpersonal caring that may be safe from outsourcing to smart systems for quite some time.  With the exponential growth in computing power and the synergy of the internet the good news is that creating your own career job with a staff of smart systems is increasingly within reach - just consider what has happened to the publishing industry with the development of ever increasingly smart systems like personal sites and RSS connectivity. --BL 9:26:09 AM      Google It!.

EU Temporarily Suspends Microsoft Sanctions. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission has temporarily suspended an order requiring Microsoft to sell a version of its Windows operating system without a media player software, just before the order would have taken effect, it announced Sunday. [Reuters: Technology] 9:09:05 AM      Google It!.