Saturday, January 15, 2005

E-learning Frameworks and Tools programme. it was only when Brian asked me for this that I realized I had forgot to store it someplace. [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:25:28 AM      Google It!.

eTwinning : a new initiative from the European Commission. eTwinning is one of the four initiatives of the eLearning programme for 2004-2007. It was created to give schools the opportunity to learn from and with each other. It promotes the awareness of the multilingual and multicultural European model of soci [Online Learning Update] 9:22:58 AM      Google It!.

Evaluating the Development of Online Course Materials - George P. Schell, eLearn Magazine. If online courses are to become a permanent feature of higher education—not merely a fad of the dot-com era—college faculty must believe that developing online materials has academic value. In addition, such online education requires certain resource [Online Learning Update] 9:21:40 AM      Google It!.

Ontologies and the Semantic Web for E-learning - Demetrios G Sampson, et al; Journal of Educational Technology and Society. The Semantic Web is the emerging landscape of new web technologies aiming at web-based information and services that would be understandable and reusable by both humans and machines. Ontologies, generally defined as a representation of a shared concep [Online Learning Update] 9:20:43 AM      Google It!.

Sentient Launch Repository With Word Interface. CETIS carries this brief write-up. "Claimed to be able to create IMS Content Packages, LearnBuild allows users to do most content creation and publishing operations from within Microsoft Word." By Wilbert Kraan, CETIS, January 12, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 9:18:21 AM      Google It!.

RSS_LOM. Work on RSS_LOM continues as Brian Sutherland offers another proposed revision. RSS_LOM has tested successfully in RSS aggregators, which means that it can be used to transport learning object metadata. Some open questions remain about the encoding of the metadata within the RSS file. The article also list five potential functions of RSS_LOM. By Brian Sutherland, Brian Sutherland's Journal, December 17, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 9:17:25 AM      Google It!.

Network EducationWare. Scott Leslie finds the Holy Grail: an open source audio-visual web conferencing system. As Leslie notes, it was developed by Mark Pullen and others at George Mason University and has been around since 2002. Now that I have a newly expanded web server, installation and testing will begin on Monday. You can find NEW here. By Scott Leslie, EdTechPost, January 14, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 9:12:35 AM      Google It!.

National Guidance Research Forum. Graham Atwell sends this along: "The National Guidance Research Forum website is an exciting new website which has been designed for all those interested in guidance research." Atwell adds, "What I like is that many authors have been and are involved in developing the site. At a technical level they are integrating blogging with discussion in a plone based system and using rss and trackback to link different entries." By Various Authors, January, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 9:10:58 AM      Google It!.

Using a Wiki for Documentation and Collaborative Authoring. Wiki software for collaborative web publishing has emerged as one of the viable and inexpensive options to consider for maintaining group documentation. [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:09:27 AM      Google It!.