Early presents

So many nice things are popping into my emailbox that it feels as if Christmas has arrived a few days early in Berkeley this year.

Here's a great eLearning Market Map. I've been toying with new models for eLearning myself. Mine include corporate goals, the learner environment, and informal learning but I haven't figured out how to show everything in one diagram. Maybe a model in Flash, like this one.

MIT Media Lab's Future of Learning site. "The Future of Learning Group explores how new technologies can enable new ways of thinking, learning, and designing. The group creates new 'tools to think with' and explores how these tools can help bring about change in real-world settings, such as schools, museums, and under-served communities."

Cory Doctorow explains why meta-data standards face a few, um, issues, in his Metacrap screed.

elegant hack is a marvellous blog about design, IA, and anything that catches the author's eye. Isn't this home page pretty? I've got to re-do my sites.