Wednesday, March 22, 2006

assessment SAT Problems Even Larger Than Reported. The College Board disclosed that after rechecking additional tests, it found 400 more students whose scores were too low. By KAREN W. ARENSON. [NYT > Education] 9:59:07 PM    comment

wireless elearing platform PayPal Goes Mobile. [Slashdot] 7:33:56 PM    comment

eLearning MyPsychLab Cited as Key to Success in Introductory Psychology Classes. Is the traditional 101 college lecture headed the way of the dinosaur? Not quite, but to more effectively reach today's visually and media-oriented college students, traditional teaching methods are certainly undergoing a fundamental evolution. A self-pa [Online Learning Update] 7:31:34 PM    comment

eCulture Web 2.0: A Pattern Library. In this exploration of the many trends powering the new web paradigm, Tim Ziegler separates the progressive ideas from the hype. In Webmonkey. [Wired News: Top Stories] good overview -- BL 5:49:09 PM    comment

storage update Towards politically neutral infrastructure: Amazon's S3. By now you've heard the pitch: Amazon is offering metered storage for blobs of data in quantities ranging from 1 byte to 5 GB. S3 provides a simple key/value store, like the ever-popular Berkeley DB -- albeit without locking or transactional features. Objects can be world-readable or governed by a range of access controls. REST (Representational State Transfer) and SOAP APIs are provided, along with wrappers in a variety of popular languages. Pricing is aggressive for storage, somewhat less so for data transfer. Amazon's commerce engine handles the billing. ... Creating what's called the energy web -- a marketplace where smart producers and consumers of power exchange price signals in real time -- will require a massive overhaul of our legacy power grid. There's just no way for us to start from scratch. But in the realm of Web services, we're just now building the grid. Given a clean slate, maybe we can figure out how to aggregate demand, meter usage, and value services for what they do rather than just for the eyeballs they attract. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio] 5:18:22 PM    comment

eLearning Professor Bans Laptops from the Classroom. [Slashdot] 5:10:32 PM    comment

wireless elearing platform More Laptop Than Cellphone, but It Still Fits in Your Pocket. The new T-Mobile MDA has so many features you may just leave that laptop at home. By JOHN BIGGS. [NYT > Technology] 5:03:25 PM    comment