By Stephen Downes
January 13, 2004
Report Faults Charter Schools in New
York
The good news is that these charter schools
are being held accountable for results. The bad news is
that they are performing so badly. And who pays for the
repairs to the children subjected to this experiment gone
awry? By David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times, January 13,
2004
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RSS Support in CourseForum and
ProjectForum
Evidence of the wider adoption of
RSS in the e-learning world is provided here as CourseForum
now supports RSS feeds. "Starting with version 3.2, an
existing RSS feed from a website can be included directly
inside any forum page.... This might be the easiest way for
you and your colleagues to collect and share up-to-date
information with each other, without visiting multiple web
sites individually, without downloading extra software, and
without everyone even needing to know what RSS is! And of
course, the headlines are embedded into your existing
forum, along with other things you're working on, and
topics you're discussing." Yeah. By Press Release,
CourseForum, January, 2003
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E-Discussion Toolkit
Good overview
resource outlining the major steps involved in hosting an
online discussion. Each step is described, with additional
resources offered. Navigation is at the top of the page, so
you'll have to scroll back up to find the next page. Via
elearningpost. By Unknown, World Bank, January, 2004
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The Death of Micropayments?
What
can go wrong with micropayments? Just about everything.
Consider what happened to those companies that tried and
failed: ""Some were platform dependent, or asked for
unreasonable percentages of the take, or relied on putting
everything on a centralized site, which would make them a
portal. It seemed like every one of them offered a
different road to hell." But that does not entail the end
of micropayments. It tells us, though, that any such system
must be platform neutral, inexpensive, distributed, and
simple. By Elizabeth Millard, E-Commerce Times, January 12,
2003
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New Digital Initiatives Have Import For All
Higher Education
From the short article: "One -
the Distributed Open
Digital Library initiative - will make more holdings of
major research libraries accessible universally in an
online, collaborative digital library. The second
initiative - the National Digital Information Infrastructure
and Preservation Program - will engage multiple
institutions in R&D work on ways to ensure long-term access
to digital resources." By Unknown, CLIRinghouse, November,
2003
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Yahoo, NewsGator Extend RSS Aggregation
A stir has been created in the RSS community as
news portal Yahoo! has been working with the format. A
short lived trial run appeared on its beta site last week,
setting of a flurry of activity. RSS has been increasingly
described - as it is in this article - as a 'push' format.
In my view, this is an incorrect characterization. Though
applications such as news readers resemble the old
Pointcast push engine, the use of RSS feeds is actually
very selective. More. By Ryan Naraine, Internet.Com,
January 8, 2004
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