Just when you thought that certain service sectors — like teaching, maybe? — are “safe” from outsourcing, you read that Outsourcing of education is India’s new catch: Two New Delhi-based Indian companies – Educomp Datamatics and Career Launcher – are early entrants to this new outsourcing business. Many more are expected to join the race, […]
Interesting interview in The Spiegel (English-language international version) with the novelist Ian McEwan: McEwan: Inevitably, we’re going to start seeing around the preposterous political correctness that allows us to have radical clerics preaching in mosques and recruiting young people. We have been caught too much by a sense that we can just regard these clerics […]
You read something terrifically interesting somewhere — on a webpage, in a book, or was it in a magazine? It’s inspirational, and it slightly angles a familiar subject in such a way that new insight reveals itself to you. Because it is tied to something quotidien, something you’ve given thought to in the past, you […]
A quick reminder to myself: reread Stephen Downes’s July 10/05 article, The Economy of E-Learning, where he responds to a reader who wrote to him as follows: I just finished a PhD in elearning, and I’m looking for my next steps. Thankfully I have many options but I realize that elearning looks more like a […]
Via Darren Cannell, a link to an excellent article by Christina Wood, Highschool.com, in the April 2005 issue of Edutopia Magazine. The article gives a great overview of online education’s place in high schools today. At present, about 25% of US high schools offer some form of virtual instruction, but the key word may well […]
It’s like a tech-epiphany. I now have a bit of an inkling as to why (some) people frolic over (some) tools. Several entries back or so, I mentioned that I’m keenly interested in learning about the latest developments in e-learning, and that I’d expanded my reading to include several new blogs, sites, etc., that focus […]
On my surfing voyages through the world of e-learning, I came across The Friday Report‘s pointer to a blog called Socrates Technological University, whose entry Amazing New Software Turns Any Computer into A TV Station points to a new tool called Alluvium. Their website explains, Alluvium is a technology for doing low-cost streaming media broadcasts. […]
Oh those naughty (clever) people at Better Bad News… Have you checked out their latest video, Al Franken’s 2008 Senate Bid Considered A Joke To Traditional Minnesota Progressives? Sad, poignant, but still funny. Here’s some dialogue, as per my transcription: David the Moderator [lecturing]: “Now Betty, … if the parties were not able to jigger […]
Sitting at breakfast just now, bickering over this and that, we hear an explosion of rowdy raucous crow voices, see the flurries of black wings, and notice the cry of a large seagull as it skims close to our house, between large elms, power lines, fences and hedges, the noise of a car or two […]