This piece [PDF] from the Learning Research Centre is one of the finest educational research articles I have read in a long time. To begin with, their literature review of the research to-date is superb. They break down each major theoretical school with its strengths and weaknesses, as well as weaknesses in research and methodology. [...]
Here’s another “will-somebody-please-tell-me-the-goddurned-truth-about-the-Presidential-campaign-issues” site in the same spirit as FactCheck.org. I have only had time to give it a cursory scan so far, but Spinsanity looks good at first glance. Plus, it has an RSS feed, unlike FactCheck.org.
(Found via Wired.)
According to this survey, a lot of universities still don’t get that teaching online involves more than knowing which buttons to click. Right now the administrations probably don’t have to care; the demand for distance learning (even weak distance learning) outstrips the supply. But that won’t last forever, and when the market tightens up, universities [...]
I just spent the afternoon editing e-Literate’s site theme organization. There are a number of reasons why I felt this was necessary:
Too many posts were going into too many themes. While I deliberately chose to create a system of overlapping themes rather than a rigid taxonomy, an organization system starts to lose its value when [...]
A while back I referred to Shibboleth–the idea of putting an arbitrary string into a post for search engine recognition. “Blog chalking” apparently uses this technique to map the blogosphere to terrestrial geography. Basically, you enter geographical and demographic information into the Shibboleth generator. It spits out a string which is encoded in an HTML [...]
