CONTENTS

UPFRONT - Organizing Electronic Resources

FOCUS - MERLOT: Community Developed Community Resource by Gerard L.
Hanley

UW - Systemwide Committee Uses WisLine Web for Monthly Meetings, March 29
Deadline for Application to Present at GWETC 2002, TTT, Online with LI

LINES - February News Highlights

ED - All the World's a Classroom, Bill Earmarks $880M For Higher Ed Security Work,
Call for an Educational Theory of Technology

BIZ/GOV/ED - Surveys of Online Teaching and Training, Customer Learning, The
Growth of e-Learning

DIGITAL DIVIDE - Senate Subcommittee to Hold Digital Divide Hearing, Athabasca
Opens Centre for Indigenous Education, Is Digital Divide Program at Risk? UN Looks
to Narrow Tech Gap

COPYRIGHT - Creative Commons to Launch, New Digital Copyright Listserv

TECH/TOOLS - New Virtual Learning Environment Tool from Finland, The Internet in
Reverse Calculation

READS/RESOURCES - Quality Enhancing Practices in Distance Ed Student Services,
Teaching Online 2nd Edition, Overcoming Barriers

NEW ON THE LIST - Welcome to New Subscribers

FYI - News, Events, Conferences

Text Version of this issue

ENDNOTE - Electronic Resources: Separating the Signal from the Noise

ENDNOTE - In the February issue of Syllabus, Andrew Lippman, founding associate
director of MIT's renowned Media Laboratory was asked about the new electronic
environment with its different sources and kinds of formats. The question was, how is
some type of tracking system, like our libraries, going to evolve?

According to Lippman, it will not be "...as random, anarchic and disruptive as we fear...
yes, you are going to get overwhelmed with all kinds of bits - and we('d) better invent
things like agents, validators and so on that separate the signal from the noise - or a living,
trusted community might do that." (Lippman on Learning: Fundamental Changes.) It is
such a living, trusted community that MERLOT is establishing. (Rosemary Lehman)
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Milwaukee Public Schools by Linda Albertson
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