Can You Count On Your Pension?

In a word, NO. 74% of millionaires made it by owning their own businesses. And if you pull out your trusty calculator, you can prove to yourself that the only way to have enough to reliably fund your life from age 65 to whenever-you-go-on-to-glory (probably about age 95) is to have about $3 million in the bank/invested. Think again if you think owning a business or having a residual income from network marketing is a crazy idea.

Can You Count On Your Pension? [Yahoo News and the Motley Fool]

1:19:34 PM    

Resource: Journal of Digital Contents

Stephen Downes links to this journal. Some articles, for example, "Semantics based architecture for e-learning and "The use of ontologies to make feasible e-learning for knowledge and competency management" look really interesting.

12:56:43 PM    

More on post-industrial learning models.

A couple of days ago, I was grumping about how shallow the article was in the January 15 Industry Week on e-Learning. Others are also documenting the disconnect between what can be done in e-Learning and the goals of traditional "industrialized" training.

"Unlike prior distance education systems, however, network-based distance education models do not so readily accommodate industrialized forms of education. Indeed, the interaction that network-based models enable between students and course content, teachers and peers ... attenuates the extent to which such teaching-learning transactions may be regarded a form of industrialization."

Dense reading, but worth considering. -- BB

Editorial: Does "lean thinking" relate to network-based distance education? - Peter S. Cookson, IRODL.

via [Online Learning Update]

12:44:20 PM    

Note to self: Oops. Need to update this item in "Articles".

New page for 'RSS feeds from learning object repositories'.

I just noticed today that people still refer to the old page I built illustrating RSS feeds from known Repositories. That page was built on my old Radio site using a simple Radio macro that rendered RSS as HTML. Since then I've moved the site into MoveableType and onto another host, but I have only recently got around to recreating this page. This time, though, I did it using a public Bloglines page (one of the beauties of a web-based aggregator that lets you share!)

The new page illustrating the results of these feeds is at http://www.bloglines.com%2fpublic_display?username=EdTechPost&;folder=322938. It's actually pretty interesting to have them in one's aggregator as you get a better sense of how regularly materials are being added (not that regularly). As before, the page includes feeds from:

• Campus Alberta Repository of Educational Objects (CAREO, http://www.careo.org/)
• Maricopa Learning Exchange (http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/index.php)
• The MedWeb Testbank Search (http://medweb5.bham.ac.uk/databases/interop/mcqs)
• Humbul database (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/help/rss.html)
• UK Centre for Materials Education (http://www.materials.ac.uk/index.asp)
• Edna Online (http://www.edna.edu.au)
• Merlot (http://www.merlot.org/)

Originally when I built this it was mostly to try and illustrate for myself the results and the utility of such feeds. The page is still fairly referenced, though, and so I have tried to add new ones as I find them. If you know of other Repositories that offer RSS feeds please let me know and I will add it to the list. Eventually I will decomission the old site, and will probably do something to re-direct this particular page.

12:32:08 PM