Archive for October, 2004

Open Access, Furl, and Course Packs

I just took a quick look at The Learner’s Library As far as I can tell, the service breaks down as follows:

LL contains a collection of academic journal articles that have been pre-cleared for copyright.
There’s a search interface to that collection that includes what appears at first glance to be pretty decent natural language search.
Searches […]

A New Job

I have some personal news that will have an impact on this blog. After 8+ years in the consulting world, I am moving over into the world of higher education. I am delighted to announce that I have accepted a position with the State University of New York (SUNY) as part of the SUNY Learning […]

Interview with JotSpot Co-Founders

Update: I have now posted a new (printable) version of the PDF with all DRM turned off. Note that it is located at a new URL.

Here it is [PDF]!
As you read the interview, I want to suggest that you think about the following words from Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community (which I […]

The Value and Politics of the Unsaid in Instructional Design

This post on Rick’s Caf矃anadien is just a teaser for an article that hasn’t been published yet. (Not fair!) But one point he makes really caught my eye:
Designs too often try to meticulously define all of the content, whereas a big part of the aesthetic experience is leaving room for the viewer/participant. Artists do this […]

Registration No Longer Required for Comments

Several people (most recently James Farmer) have complained that the registration requirement for commenting on e-Literate discourages them from posting comments. Obviously, this isn’t good. So I’m turning off the registration requirement.
For the moment, I’m viewing this as an experiment. As a result, I’m going to leave the various text warnings about needing to register […]





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