Saturday, January 21, 2006

learning College Students Lack Literacy. [Slashdot] 10:53:17 PM    comment

eLearning platform Blackboard by the Numbers - Michael Feldstein, e-Literate. Jim Farmer has a fantastic analysis [PDF] of how much it costs Blackboard to make a sale, what that means to their overall business model, and how that compares to the cost-per-sale of a commercially marketed open source software product and the cost for [Online Learning Update] 10:47:08 PM    comment

assessment Automated Essay Scoring - Semire DIKLI, Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education. The impacts of computers on writing have been widely studied for three decades. Even basic computers functions, i.e. word processing, have been of great assistance to writers in modifying their essays. The research on Automated Essay Scoring (AES) has rev [Online Learning Update] 10:33:20 PM    comment

eLearning student services Evaluation of an Online Student Induction and Support Package for Online Learner -Catherine M O'Donnell,Deborah J Sloan, Clive W Mulholland, EURODL. This paper describes an evaluation of an online Student Induction and Support Package used to prepare both face-to-face and fully online students for learning online. It provides an overview of two components of the Package, the Primer and Survival Guide. [Online Learning Update] 10:31:03 PM    comment

networks Facebook can be a liability in personal privacy as some students have discovered. 11:30:18 AM    comment

stress Work stress leads to heart disease, diabetes. Stress at work is an important risk factor for the development of heart disease and diabetes, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. Stress at work has been linked with heart disease, but the biological processes were unclear. This study provides new evidence for the biological plausibility of the link between work stress and heart disease. [Science Blog -] 11:25:42 AM    comment

Culture New York Moves to Limit Colleges That Seek Profit. The freeze on commercial colleges comes as officials nationwide look to tighten rules on this booming sector of higher education. By KAREN W. ARENSON. [NYT > Education] 11:20:35 AM    comment

The Semantics Differentiation of Minds and Machines. [Slashdot] 11:18:37 AM    comment

open source Surveys Show Increase In OSS Popularity. [Slashdot] From the article: "The survey also addresses the most important question: what motivates organizations to adopt open source software? According to Optaros, cost savings is one of the most significant factors." 10:40:39 AM    comment

networks Court Action Does Not Reduce File-Sharing. [Slashdot] 10:35:44 AM    comment

LOR Online Engineering Resources. The latest issue of Freepint includes a useful "tips article" by Roddy MacLeod, "Engineering: the changing information landscape." Many links to engineering repositories are included in the article. _____JH ____ "My first FreePint article on engineering portals appeared back in issue No. 66 (6th July 2000). Quite a number of things have changed since that time. The first part of this article revisits some of the resources I shared back then. The second section is an analysis of some useful engineering-related digital repositories which have emerged over the past five years. Finally, the third section comments on the changing engineering information landscape." [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online] 10:31:48 AM    comment

decision making How do you detect change?. This week’s study is a simple test. You’ll first be directed to a Quicktime movie of a painting. The painting will flash repeatedly, changing slighly between flashes. You have 9 seconds to identify the change; then your browser will automatically redirect to a survey, with (as usual) 5 questions to answer (most important, of course: what changes in the picture?). The whole thing should take less than a minute to do, so why not give it a whirl? Make sure you’re ready to look closely at a flashing picture before you click on the link to start! Click here to begin To view the rest of this article, visit the new Cognitive Daily site at ScienceBlogs.com. [Cognitive Daily] 10:25:56 AM    comment

eContent Making Your Own Educational Materials for the Web - Bruce L. Mann, ITDL. Well-prepared educational materials can remove the need to "wing it" in the classroom, by keeping your students occupied and helping them learn. Whether you are new to teaching or have been at it a while, you will know of the huge repository of educationa [Online Learning Update] 10:22:06 AM    comment

disruptive New Media and Learning in the 21st Century - Lev S. Gonick, Educause Review. Every revolutionary transformation has a natural evolution. Uncurbed enthusiasm, rising expectations, disappointment, and sometimes counter-revolutionary activity are usually part of the evolution of transformations whether in politics, agriculture, econo [Online Learning Update] 10:18:29 AM    comment

genetics Humans Hard-wired for Geometry. [Slashdot] 10:15:30 AM    comment