You gave students iPads and thought that this is e-Learning? And now, when this tactics obviously failed, you are blaming e-Learning for your own failure.

For e-Learning to succeed, you need to have what is called LMS, or Learning Management System. e-Book is not e-Learning, iPad is neither. It's much more complex solution which has to be done right and tested on small group of best students before implemented in mass.

This article explains much better what e-Learning is: http://www.kirsanov.net/post/2011/12/23/Why-e-Learning-Is-Better.aspx

So, as you can see, it has many duties in the past.

Nope. Many people from new EU countries, such as Latvia, Poland and Lithuania, are coming to UK to claim financial aid. They claim they were living in UK for required amount of time (although they came to UK the same day they had interview). No forced labor.

Besides, if you are IT specialist, you shall not fear forced labor - it's easier to find job normal way. I think the hero of the article just dumb.

Indeed. Although the future of Silverlight is uncertain and I wouldn't define it as something you definitely should learn as windows web developer, I still consider writing OOB applications using it and don't think they are in danger next 5 years or so.

Indeed. That's why I hope they won't do that in final release. It appears that WinRT and Metro are pointing at failure and it's worrying to see how easily they kill what was promoted so much. Silverlight, for example.

Yes, it is. Just a GUI.

You can not rename a village in Russia for sponsorship. Maybe it is allowed in USA, but in Russia it is not. So the whole thing is fake, couldn't be otherwise.

http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_15540156According to this, the guy killed himself.

MCSE is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. A highest certification for a Windows Server 2003 professional. A boss of system administrators. Nothing to do with coding. And it is still actual, in fact - we don't know when Microsoft will close it.

If you was thinking about MCSD (Software Developer), than yes, you have only 10 days left to receive it.

MCTS - there are 32 different MCTS certifications and they don't give you much unless you are pursuing the MCPD or you are student.

MCPD - there are 3 MCPD certifications, for Web, Windows and Enterprise applications, with Web and Windows being equal by value. Any of them will help you to get your programmer`s ass hired very quickly.

It usually takes 2 months of active training to get your first MCPD, yet it's not easy.

Microsoft is having a strange strategy now. Been in one of their "technology days" a few days ago. They were showing how good MySQL, PHP and Apache are working on Windows Server 2008.

One of the slides said: "Windows Server 2008 - a Powerful LAMP platform!". They definitely don't know what L in "LAMP" stands for.

So now they want all MySQL, PHP and Apache users to switch from Linux, then they will want them to switch to MS SQL, ASP.NET and IIS. Strange.