The Communication Research Institute of Australia (CRIA) has a classic usability study paper out on how to improve prescription medicine labels. It’s well written and easy to learn from.
Auricle: Weblog Scalability and Automation
“Ask and ye shall receive.” The very day that I post a plea for enterprise-oriented and internet-oriented educational tools communities to start talking, Derek Morrison at Auricle posts a good example of how that dialogue could start. Here’s my interpretation: Dear grubby internet guy, Love your blog thingamabob. But I need to make it work […]
Enterprise vs. Internet World Views in Educational Tool Design
There’s an excellent (albeit necessarily technical) conversation about implementing OKI (which are standards that, among other things, are central to the Sakai project) over at the dotLRN discussion board within the OpenACS web site. (OpenACS is an Open Source toolkit upon which the dotLRN LMS is based.) Here’s a key snippet of conversation:
Voting as a Course Requirement
Apparently, a professor at Drew University in NJ is making voting in the upcoming election a course requirement. Is this a good idea? The blogger at Random Pens褳 says no, coerced voting is contrary to American values and ideals. The blogger at Simon’s World (er…presumably Simon) disagrees, arguing that voting is an “obligation” and part […]
Please Welcome Sabine Kirstein to the Blogosphere
Sabine is a former colleague and a smart cookie. I’m pleased to see that she has started a blog. Add this one to your RSS reader.
Distributed Categories: A General Implementation
The guy who created BooksWeLike is now apparently working on a general embeddable system for distributed categorization that does the following: Let you publish citations to books, urls, photographs and other digital ephemera. Categorize your observations using tags Pivot on tags and observations to find more like tags, observations and people. The application should be […]
Outstanding (and Practical) Learning Styles Research Paper
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. […]