A startup campus in health sciences attempts to put into practice many OAI-like approaches in health sciences. Amid the enthusiasm there is some anecdotal evidence about practical difficulaties like coordinating curriculum and finding time for research.

Another single-measure assessment with political implications. The comments unpack some of the complexities behind "graduation rates".

"To some, the White House shift to Drupal from a proprietary software package represented a serious seal of approval for open-source software."

""We don't claim we do everything," said Chris Capossela, a senior vice president at Microsoft. "If we do 50 percent of the functions that these other companies do, but they're the ones customers really want, that's fine. The magic is that end users actually like to use the software." This strategy seems to have worked even during the recession. "

This sounds like an arena in which our work ought to appear, and in which we might find others of like mind and mission. It's a surprisingly non-social site, however.

"When Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan came to office, they created a $4.3 billion Race to the Top fund. The idea was to use money to leverage change. The administration would put a pile of federal money on the table and award it to a few states that most aggressively embraced reform. "

How would the State of Washington (and Washington State University) respond to such a challenge?

The poster in the accompanying picture says: "Education is not for sale". "In response to the massive re-orientation of education toward job training, privatization and the standardization of curricular outcomes mandated by the Bologna Process, students across Europe have been turning out by the thousands. This past June, as many as 250,000 students, parents, schoolteachers, college faculty and staff coordinated a week-long education strike in 90 cities across Germany."

Apropos of Ashley's comments about European views of accreditation and accountability: apparently standardization of curricular outcomes is facing some opposition.

"Here are top rated news and opinions reviewed by NewsTrust.net, a social news network devoted to good journalism. We rate the news based on quality, not just popularity."

A social model of news and opinion aggregation

"Online programs are generally profitable. But despite the buzz about Web 2.0, the education they provide is still dominated by rudimentary, text-based technology." "Any innovation... [is] really to supplement what is still a pretty rudimentary core."

"you've already taken a look at what to expect. Let's dive deeper into Wave features, etiquette, and extensions."

"Some students say they prefer the free videotaped lectures to the live lectures they are paying for at their own institutions. Others say they use the online talks to focus on topics they didn't quite get when they first heard them in their own courses. And some high-school students use them to get a jump on material they will encounter when they get to college."

If lectures make education, we're out of business. If not, then why are we spending time and money on them?

"Free web parts and other SharePoint tools"

A power tip for power users of Outlook -- Query Builder!

Limitations on characters and lengths in SharePoint names

Harvard University's priorities examined in the light of its use of its tremendous wealth. It's not hard to see a trickle-down effect in other universities closer to home.

Google engineer David Wang explains how collaborative editing through concurrency control and operational transform work in Google Wave.

Under-the-hood (but very general) description of how Google wave handles concurrent edits.

Not much new in the article, but the comments have an interesting backward-looking quality, referring often to integration of campus systems, and not at all to new ways of learning.

What it takes to be "World Class", from a World Bank economist

Like Chrome Frame, another attempt by Google to bypass browser limitations. "Use Google Docs to quickly view documents online without leaving your browser. PDF documents, PowerPoint presentations, and TIFF files are supported" Enter a URL anywhere on the web and get a link for an embedded view of the doc

Use Google Docs to quickly view documents online without leaving your browser. Enter a document URL below to generate a link to view it PDF documents, PowerPoint presentations, and TIFF files are supported

Chrome Frame is a new open-source product from Google that promises to answer web developer dreams. It's a free plug-in for IE6, IE7 and IE8 that turns Internet Explorer into Google's Chrome browser!