Monday, May 03, 2004

How to End Grade Inflation. A modest proposal. By Michael BÉrubÉ. [New York Times: Education] 10:15:23 PM      Google It!.

Learning Object Repositories, Digital Repositories, and the Reusable Life of Course Content - Phillip D. Long, Syllabus. Course management systems have gone mainstream. If your college doesn’t have one, it will. Richard Katz, director of the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR), describes this as an evolution from “…small, often sub-rosa tools used by quirky facul [Online Learning Update] 10:12:41 PM      Google It!.

Canadian users' rights petition officially launched. The Petition for Users' Rights under Copyright law in Canada (see previous blog posting) has been officially launched, with links to a press release and instructions on how to sign the petition (in English and French). (Source: Chris Brand via Peter Suber) [Open Access News] 10:11:00 PM      Google It!.

Learning resource discovery based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH'. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue39/powell/ From the latest issue of ARIADNE, comes this article by Andy Powell and Phil Barker detailing the development of a LOM-based application profile and the sharing of these resources using the OAI-PMH. Lots of good references, and I found the sections regarding their vocabularies and the issue of identifiers quite helpful. - SWL [EdTechPost] 10:05:01 PM      Google It!.