UPFRONT - Are Learners Learning Effectively Via Technology?

FOCUS - Assessment Tools for Distance Education by Susan B. Millar

UW NEWS - Wireless Network Access at the Pyle Center, eWeek, TTT

LINES - March News Highlights

ED - U's and Intellectual Property Rights, Crash Course on Intellectual Property Rights, Wireless for LANs and WANs, Colleges Target Corporate Training, Internet2 Will Expand to K-12

BIZ/GOV/ED - Fathom Offers Cost Tiers, The Quest for Venture Capital Drives Consortia Formation, Making the Grade, eLearning in Brazil

TECH/TOOLS - Electronic Paper a Transitional Step, Classroom Instruction Becomes Knowledge on Demand, What's Next: WI-FI?

CMS STATS - Course Management Survey: Initial Results

FUNDS - Portal for Federal Grants, Grant Help for Undergrad Science Programs

READS RESOURCES - Technology and the Biological Process of Learning, Learning Styles Online, Math Goodies, International DL Course Finder, Distance Education Guidelines for Good Practice, Resource: An Index to Continuing Education Resources Online

ISSUES/CHALLENGES - Trend: The U.S. is Significantly More Diverse Than Previously Thought, A New Divide? Cheap PC for Use in Brazil? Fully Accessible Web Pages

POSITIONS - University of Nevada, Reno - Web Course Designer; Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario - Animator and Web/Graphic Designer

NEW ON THE LIST - Welcome to New Subscribers

FYI - News, Conferences, Events

ENDNOTE - No Moore's Law for Learning - Steven W. Gilbert

According to Steven W. Gilbert, founder of the Teaching, Learning and Technology (TLT) Group, although we have a Moore's Law for technology (the capacity of microprocessor chips doubles about every 18-24 months), there is no Moore's Law for human learning. Instead we live through "hundreds of incremental changes, each less dramatic than a revolution, but totaling a major transformation." As part of this transformation we need to ask two fundamental questions: 1) What are one or two important results that we most want to gain in the future from educational uses of technology? What do we hope will be transformed for our students, our institution, ourself? 2) What do we most cherish and do not want to lose? What do we hope will be preserved? Gilbert says that without a commitment to these goals, technology will be adopted, but will not result in what we hope for. (Syllabus Mar 01)

NEXT DESIEN ISSUE FOCUS - Major Jim Bischoff, USAF, on organizational bias against technology-based learning, with suggestions for dealing with cultural problems as part of a comprehensive learning program.

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