e-Learning: Emerging Issues and Key Trends. Good summary report on trends in e-learning, including the greater emphasis on quality, wider adoption and influence of standards and learning objects, and the growing acceptance of blended learning. Makes recommendations regarding Australia's Flexible Learning Framework, suggesting it should begin to focus more on process rather than product. The trends surveyed won't be any surprise to those immersed in the field but are an excellent survey for those less directly connected. PDF document. By John Eklund, Margaret Kay and Helen M. Lunch, Australian National Training Authority, September 25, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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Via Stephen Downes:Groove Educational Case Study: CAL State University. Groove has been criticized in the past in these pages, but it's worth taking a look at this case study, written about a professor who has used it for a number of years in his classes with great success. Rick Lillie employs what he calls a "simple design formula" for using Groove: "content appropriate for all class members (course content and content-related links) is archived on his course-specific Web sites, while Groove is used for administration, communication, and collaboration, with "everything hyperlinking back and forth" between the Web sites and his Groove desktop classrooms." Via e-Learning Centre News. By Unknown, Groove Networks, September 30, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]

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Distributing Learning Objects. Survey of three major approaches to distributing learning objects: harvesting, federated search, and peer-to-peer. To nobody's surprise, I recommend the harvesting approach. By Stephen Downes, Australian Flexible Learning Community, October 1, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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