UPFRONT - Addressing the Issue of Digital Rights Management Technologies

FOCUS - Digital Rights Management in Distance Learning - Watch this Space - Chris Ashley and Glenda Morgan, UW System Administration

UW NEWS - ICS Working with MPS on Teaching via VC, ASL Learning Objects Project Funded by UW System, Keynote Speakers Announced for GWETC, Certificate Program Online Group Forming - Scholarships are Available

LINES - July News Highlights

ED - DLAM Plans to Spread Message Through Technology, Lippmann Advocates Technology Education for Students, CoursePacks Launched, Educators Push Reforms to Broaden Distance Learning, LOC Collaborative Digital Reference Service, What Does It Mean to "Be There?"

BIZ/GOV/ED - eEducation Initiated in China, Army's New eLearning Initiative, Implementers Must Drive the eLearning Agenda, IMS Establishes European Foundation, Entrepreneurial Education and Training

FUNDS - "First" is Unique Funding, NEC Foundation of America Announces Grants, Palm Education Pioneer (PEP) Awards $2.3 Million

TECH/TOOLS - ezBOARD Provides ezSKINS Technology, Free Online Seminars From Fathom and Prometheus, Demand for Optical Integrated Circuits is Predicted, sMediaBlender

COPYRIGHT - Free MIT Course Materials Raise IP Questions, US Decision on Electronic Publishing Could Have Widespread Impact, The House Finds Itself Divided Over Further Broadening of Copyright Exemptions

READS/RESOURCES - eLearning Across the Enterprise: Benchmarking of Best Practices, All Learning is Self-Directed

ISSUES/CHALLENGES - Should the Government Fund Online Content? New American Alliance Formed, G8 Sets Plan to Bridge Digital Divide, DOTforce and G8 Nations, G8 Digital Opportunity Update

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FYI - News, Events, Conferences

ENDNOTE - On the Button! Elliott Masie

- In a recent TechLearn Trends Newsletter, Elliott Masie described a Wish List of 10 Innovations. Among the 10 was the wish for the creation of a few additional Web Online Buttons:

- TWO HELP BUTTONS Toolmakers of synchronous and live learning tools should add two Help Buttons to their screens. The first one would be pushed if the learner needs technical help with the operation of the tool. The other would be pushed if the learner has a content or learning question. Each button would be handled differently, connecting with different FAQ's and connectivity to either a technical help desk or a learning content resource. Nothing is more distracting then a learner asking a technical question in front of 100 on-line students. Let's help both learners and instructors by sorting help requests right at the screen.

- A GOOD-BYE BUTTON - We should ask learners as they are leaving a learning activity to press one button to describe why they are leaving. Some folks are actually leaving because they got what they wanted and are now going back to work. Let's gather information that tracks positive departure as well as negative departure and allow those that are leaving to return at another time. (Elliott Masie, TechLearn Trends #208, 20 Jul 01)

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