Archive for December, 2004



A Guide To Open Content Licenses

The Piet Zwart Institute has published a fairly comprehensive online guide to open content licenses. Good context, good explanations of the various options…good stuff.
(Found via Open Access News.)

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Learning Effectiveness Via Learning Affectiveness

I just read a great article by Karen Swan called “Immediacy, Social Presence, and Asynchronous Discussion,” published in one of the Sloan-C’s books. (Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be available online.) The paper appears to be an empirical study to follow up an earlier paper by Swan and several colleagues (which is available online, albeit […]

Time to Vote

The nominations are closed and the polls are open for the 2004 Edublog awards. I’m flattered to say that e-Literate has been nominated for Best Newcomer and Best Designed and Most Beautiful Blog.
Go vote!

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Experience as a Distance Learning Teacher Makes You a Better Classroom Teacher

According to a faculty satisfaction study [DOC] conducted by SLN, a whopping 85% of their faculty reported that their experience as online teachers “will have a positive effect on their classroom instruction.”
Here is their explanation for their findings:
Why should we feel that developing and teaching an online course would have an impact on regular class […]

I Must Be Famous

Apparently, there is a national technology literacy program in India in which they are naming entire districts after my weblog. Isn’t that something?
Of course, if I were smarter I could have been even more famous. I could have named my weblog “McDonald’s.”
(Found via Conversations with Dina.)

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