Posted 7:33 AM by George Siemens

As this article discusses, (Sowing the Seeds) technology has the potential to significantly improve the quality of life for many people. One of the greatest areas of promise is in developing countries. Building Internet infrastructure promises to be less expensive (and more effective?) than attempting to recreate the higher education structure that exists in developed countries...
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"...diffuse knowledge better throughout Mexico. For the most part, the strategy comprises three levels: connecting students and alumni, connecting campuses throughout the system, and connecting campuses more strongly with the cities in which they're located."

Here is a neat article: Launch Pad that has application to designing elearning:
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"A launchpad is a graphical user interface that's used for tasks that have too many steps or are too complex to fit into a single wizard. The launchpad acts as a central access point for launching a series of related wizards, dialogs, or a combination of both, each of which completes one step of the end-to-end task."

In Defense of Online Learning
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"If e-learning is ever to come into its own as an educational art form (and I don't think it has yet), then we must first acknowledge that it is not and never will be able to replicate the kind of dynamic that happens in a live classroom."

Cool article: Changing the Interface of Education with Revolutionary Learning Technologies
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"Along with the development of a second-generation online education infrastructure, it will be necessary to consider changing the interface of education—reinventing pedagogy for the new interface, including multimedia and hypermedia enhancements, and creating the educational standards necessary for generalized deployment."