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Online Learning Project Shuttered

The AllLearn project, a consortium among Oxford, Stanford and Yale Universities to research online learning, has come to a close. We offered 110 online courses from Oxford, Stanford, and Yale Universities to over 10,000 participants from 70 countries during the past five years. As we looked to the future, the cost of offering top-quality enrichment courses at affordable prices was not sustainable over time.

AllLearn – Alliance for Lifelong Learning

Well, this is a bit sobering. One does wonder what the cause of the failure was.  Perhaps this market does not really exist. It is important to note that the consortium was offering enrichment courses, not credit courses or training per se.

 

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The Apple Mini Media Center

New to Front Row is the ability to play shared music via Bonjour, Apple’s automatically configuring, cross-platform local networking technology. As a result, the Mac mini will play all content on Macs connected to a Bonour network (though individuals can opt not to share their content). This content can include all songs stored in iTunes, or photos complete with slideshows or movies.

Apple Debuts iPod Hi-Fi, Intel-Based Mac Mini

 
See, now we’re getting somewhere.  Get a Mini, plug it into the home media rig, and get at all of your media from one place.  Pretty cool.  Now, iTunes sticks Bonjour on your Windows box during install, so will you be able to connect a Windows PC to the net for sharing?  And what about Linux?

 

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No Windows on Intel Macs

With the announcement of the first Intel based Macs yesterday, many users have rejoiced in being able to dual-boot both Mac OS X and Windows. Unfortunately, this is not the case; due to Apple’s use of the extensible firmware interface (EFI) rather than BIOS, current Windows releases will not run on the systems.

BetaNews | XP Won’t Run on Intel MacBook, iMac

Bigger question:  Will OS X from the Intel boxes run on non-Apple hardware? 

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Get your ESBN

The ESBN (Electronic Standard Book Number) is the unique identifier of electronic media. ESBNs are recognized worldwide and available 24×7 online.

ESBN – Electronic Standard Book Number

Seems like you get a unique id number for each downloaded file and use some set of tools to track that number in the file as it moves about the countryside.  via eHub.

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