The corridor of uncertainty

Way back in the fifties they tried to add smell to feature films (smell-o-vision) by scraping a card at a given moment and thereby being abl...

With all those open educational resources available out there it's no surprise to see brave attempts to create net-based schools or univ...

I enjoyed reading an article ( Attention literacy ) by a guy called Howard Rheingold about his efforts to grab the attention of his students...

I read a short article in my local newspaper yesterday about a survey of the most popular websites amongst 10-15 year-olds. The top two wer...

A few weeks ago George Siemens and colleagues organised an original on-line conference about how to make conferences more communicative and...

I've just read a new Canadian study from Memorial University of Newfoundland entitled The Impact of High School Distance e-Learning Exp...

What happens when everyone shares everything? The music and film industries are struggling to come to terms with a world where copying is so...

Whenever I see groups of people discussing in sign language I feel rather ashamed that so few of us with good hearing bother to learn even t...

Ever wondered how often Wikipedia is updated? You're not the first because there's now a site that shows you updates as they happen ...

The academic world is subject to the same trends as society in general and one of these is bewildering choice in everything. In the "go...

There has been considerable debate around an article by Nicholas Carr called " Is Google making us stupid? " He admits to finding ...

A guy in Finland is shooting to world fame as a result of an unusual operation. Having lost a finger in a motorbike accident he has replaced...

In the age of homo zapiens it is not surprising to read that people tend not to read long texts any more. Just as we zap frenetically from c...

I'm not sure what to make of the interesting service offered by PediaPress . You choose a selection of entries from Wikipedia and PediaP...

When I was at school we were taught "real writing" and spent years painstakingly practicing the art. In those days that was excell...