Why Our Education System is Failing Us « Personal Growth & Personal Development Today’s school system is built upon a foundation that was created over 100 years ago. Unfortunately, it has changed very little since being formed during the Industrial Age. We still hold millions of kids hostage for approximately 35 hours a week. Students [...]

Open Stacks Now introducing the official SirsiDynix Institute podcast feed! I’ve really been enjoying the SirsiDynix Institute Web seminars that have been going on this year. They have timely subjects and draw their speakers from the library bloggers.

‘Stanford On ITunes’ Is For Everybody – Forbes.com In an unprecedented move, Stanford University is collaborating with Apple Computer to allow public access a wide range of lectures, speeches, debates and other university content through iTunes. No need to pay the $31,200 tuition. No need to live on campus. No need even to be a [...]

JOLT – Journal of Online Learning and Teaching The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) is a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in education. via Open Access News

Library Web Chic » Blog Archive » E-Reserve Issues Publishers want to be paid for e-reserves now. Because library’s have so much money, right? If the current lecture method of teaching doesn’t work very well (And most people I know agree that it doesn’t.), education will most likely be evolving in the next 10-20 years [...]

Peter Scott’s Library Blog Five new Internet tutorials for adult learners have been launched in the RDN Virtual Training Suite: A really nicely designed site.

eSchool News Ed-Tech Insider is a blog about technology in teaching. It can provide some great ideas for classes as well as up-to-date news.

Stephen Downes writes about blogs as educational tools in Educause. I highly recommend you read it for yourself because it’s very well-balanced and insightful. I couldn’t resist including some of my favorite bits below. …the events of September 11 brought home to me the immediacy of blogging. We ran ongoing coverage, submitted via SMS to [...]

The New York Times >In the Classroom, Web Logs Are the New Bulletin Boards looks at the experiences of teachers using the technology instead of in-class discussions or essays. It mentions several advantages, such as involving the children in updates instead of the teacher being solely responsible and “leveling the playing field” so that all [...]

Weblog Tools Collection » Educational blogging as a research tool I believe that educational blogging is a very powerful vehicle to collect and aggregate research and assignment information as well as a powerful means to assimilate and search the stored information by a worldwide audience.