eLearn Magazine: Usability, User Experience,
eLearn Magazine: Usability, User Experience, and Learner ExperienceE-learning stocks are a rare bright spot in a gloomy tech market these days. Boosters of on-line learning promote its lower costs, broader accessibility, and personalization potential. But much e-learning still has slow adoption and high dropout rates. Online learning leaves many students frustrated or unenthusiastic. The good news is that concepts and processes for addressing these shortfalls in learner experience can be found in the field of usability. In this paper, I outline ways in which the field of usability, properly understood, can help online learning fulfill its promise.
Permalink | Friday, August 24, 2001
The Irish Times: Earning through
The Irish Times: Earning through e-learningInternet-based learning, popularly called e-learning, continues to prosper in spite of the dotcom downturn that many expected would stop it in its tracks. The exceptionally good mid-year results reported by the publicly quoted e-learning companies provides the evidence of this performance.
Permalink | Friday, August 24, 2001
Wired: Debating Merits of Palms
Wired: Debating Merits of Palms in ClassMost of the schools, including Ann Arbor Open, cite two reasons for the prohibition: concern over theft and dislike for the disruptive noises such devices make during class. While it's difficult to find someone who doesn't agree that a ringing cell phone in public is annoying, parents and educators are concerned that school districts are banning Palms prematurely. Unlike cell phones and pagers, Palms can be used directly for educational purposes: Software like dictionaries, graphing calculators, e-books and thermometers can be downloaded onto the Palms and used to simplify studying and classroom participation.
Permalink | Friday, August 24, 2001
Wired: E-Textbooks Offer Light Reading
Wired: E-Textbooks Offer Light ReadingWhen students at the University of Phoenix return to school this fall, many of them won't be carrying books in their backpacks. Instead, they will download digital textbooks, multimedia simulations and PowerPoint presentations from portable e-book readers and desktop PCs.
Permalink | Friday, August 24, 2001
The Chronicle: Tunisia Plans a
The Chronicle: Tunisia Plans a National Online UniversityThe institution, to be called the Tunisian Virtual University, is one element of a larger plan to provide life-long learning opportunities for Tunisians while at the same time employing and promoting new technologies in the country's educational sector.
Permalink | Thursday, August 23, 2001
thestar.com.my: E-learning as a training
thestar.com.my: E-learning as a training toolMalaysian corporate leaders have been urged to invest in e-learning facilities to help develop employee expertise and reinforce the country’s business capabilities in the light of the emerging competitive and open market trade scenarios.
Permalink | Thursday, August 23, 2001
China Daily: Online schools have
China Daily: Online schools have much to learnOnline colleges will become one of the most promising Internet businesses in China despite dim prospects for profitability in the near future, according to industry executives and experts. Between July 2000 and March 2001, 38 universities enrolled 240,000 students for their online colleges, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said.
Permalink | Thursday, August 23, 2001
New Zealand Herald: NZ publisher
New Zealand Herald: NZ publisher wins UK e-learning roleFrom next month, Wendy Pye Publishing will begin providing literacy and numeracy learning material to the UK portal http://www.learn.co.uk, the information hub at the centre of the country's multimillion-pound plan to bring learning and teaching resources online.
Permalink | Thursday, August 23, 2001
MIT Technology Review: Science Education
MIT Technology Review: Science Education ParadoxThe United States by any conceivable measure has the finest scientists in the world. But the rest of the population, by any rational standard, is abysmally ignorant of science, mathematics and all things technical. That is the paradox of scientific elites and scientific illiterates: how can the same system of education that produced all those brilliant scientists also have produced all that ignorance?
Permalink | Thursday, August 23, 2001
Infoworld: IBM, Monster.com kick start
Infoworld: IBM, Monster.com kick start corporate e-learningEnterprises exploring e-learning options will have more to choose from this week as several vendors including IBM, Monster.com, and Click2learn tout new platforms and services for online training and employee development.
Permalink | Wednesday, August 22, 2001
Guardian Unlimited: Online university to
Guardian Unlimited: Online university to open in 2003Universitas 21 Global, the online university, is expected to be unveiled next month. Following negotiations that have dragged on for almost a year, the venture, jointly sponsored by the information provider Thomson Corp and the consortium of elite institutions known as Universitas 21, is expected to be launched in New York.
Permalink | Wednesday, August 22, 2001
Korea Times: CEOs Go Online
Korea Times: CEOs Go Online to Hone Management SkillsAround 20 top-level company executives from both local and foreign companies will get together for an online education course, Change Without Plan, announced e-learning service provider Unext Korea yesterday.
Permalink | Wednesday, August 22, 2001
Wired: What’s Really in Their
Wired: What's Really in Their BackpacksUnzip a typical student's knapsack and what will you find in 2001? Handhelds, cell phones, gel pens, music-listening devices, maybe even a book or two.
Permalink | Wednesday, August 22, 2001
NY Times: Nuggets Mined From
NY Times: Nuggets Mined From the Corporate Past, for a FeeCorporate histories are nothing new. But a resurgent interest in the past is leading companies to commission scholarly histories that can serve as management tools... At Corning, the innovation book's analysis of how the company developed flat-panel glass in the 1960's and the material used in catalytic converters in the 1970's will be used as a training tool in its life sciences and optical networking units...
Permalink | Wednesday, August 22, 2001
CBS MarketWatch: Get to learning!
CBS MarketWatch: Get to learning! E-learning, that is As droves of fresh-faced students invade college campuses this time of year, millions of adults will also go back to school -- but they'll do so at home or at the office by turning on their computer and logging into an online classroom. It also marks a time when the stocks of for-profit education ventures get a pop thanks to the added visibility that the industry gains because of seasonal advertising campaigns, new education legislation, and general media coverage on education.Permalink | Tuesday, August 21, 2001
Learning Circuits: Web Course Usability
Learning Circuits: Web Course UsabilityInstructors and course developers are well versed in the art of instructional design. Despite this expertise and experience, many Web-based courses suffer from weak Web design and poor usability... Increase the learning potential of Web courses by following these simple principles from Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen.
- elearningpost: Jakob Nielsen on e-learning
Permalink | Tuesday, August 21, 2001
Learning Circuits: Training E-Trainers It’s
Learning Circuits: Training E-TrainersIt’s quite a juggling act to maintain a smooth, energetic delivery while advancing slides, checking for virtual raised hands, and answering notes. Also, there’s the lack of eye contact and body language, making it much more difficult to connect with participants. Even the most engaging speakers lose learners if they fail to deliver a highly focused class that promotes interaction.
Permalink | Tuesday, August 21, 2001
Houston Chronicle: Web-based pilot program
Houston Chronicle: Web-based pilot program shows promiseClasses offer flexibility for today's busy youngsters, proponents say, and help alleviate the teacher shortage. They also bring more advanced classes to underserved students in rural areas... Other educators point to the content... "You're not sitting there watching a talking head. I previewed some of the courses, and one of them was studying Kosovo and the Bosnian war. There were people explaining that this war really isn't about material things and border lines, but a war of religion. There was some lady from Kosovo who was actually talking from there. Now, when did a textbook or course come alive like that?"
Permalink | Tuesday, August 21, 2001
Radio National: Knowledge Indignation: Road
Radio National: Knowledge Indignation: Road Rage on the Information Superhighway (via Camworld)In ancient times if you wanted power, you burned the libraries and controlled the flow of information.Then God created the Internet. And in theory, everyone could read everything. It didn't last. Now, a couple of decades later, knowledge that was available to the public and scholars for free, is a hot commodity. It's being, wait for it, 'monetised'. That means ways are being found to make money out of it. Worse, access to it is being bought up by half a dozen big online publishers who are locking away information, research, journals, archives and libraries.
Permalink | Tuesday, August 21, 2001
Context Magazine: Degrees ‘R’ Us
Context Magazine: Degrees 'R' UsNot since the Wizard of Oz handed the Scarecrow his "Doctor of Thinkology" scroll have college degrees been so easy to come by. For the right price, Internet diploma factories will hand out sheepskins practically overnight. No qualifications necessary. One investigation found that a diploma mill—variously known as the University of San Moritz, the University of Palmers Green, or Harrington University—didn’t ask questions when paid to grant a master’s degree and a doctorate to a six-month-old basset hound.
Permalink | Monday, August 20, 2001
Modesto Bee: Discipline, active learning
Modesto Bee: Discipline, active learning required"Online classes require a student who is self-disciplined -- an active learner. The courses are best suited for those who can manage their own time and take responsibility for their education, without the usual benefit of regular class meeting times. There's no hand-holding or coddling in virtual classrooms... It's not for crybabies. This is an adult way to learn."
Permalink | Monday, August 20, 2001
CIO: KM Works Magic for
CIO: KM Works Magic for KetchumEvery other month, Ketchum runs a promotion such as a raffle to encourage employees to contribute knowledge to the system. A newsletter distributed companywide offers recognition of such things as the document of the month or the most downloaded document. Still, getting people to use myKGN both as a repository and a resource is an ongoing challenge...
Permalink | Monday, August 20, 2001
Webreview: Eleven Great Collaboration Tools
Webreview: Eleven Great Collaboration ToolsFewer and fewer Web projects are worked on by single team members. In the past, work might have been clearly divided with one member coding, one doing graphics, and one generating new content. Nowadays, applications are becoming more complex, and the coding and design efforts must be shared by many team members... Fortunately, there are tools to help make it all go smoothly.
Permalink | Monday, August 20, 2001
E-learning Advisor: SAP Learning Management
E-learning Advisor: SAP Learning Management SolutionThe SAP Learning Management Solution is now in pilot testing, and should be available by the second quarter of 2002. The product will integrate with the mySAP.com e-business platform, including mySAP Human Resources (mySAP HR) and other SAP solutions, or you can use it as a standalone e-learning solution.
Permalink | Saturday, August 18, 2001
MIT Technology Review: Taming the
MIT Technology Review: Taming the Web"Information wants to be free." "The Internet can't be controlled." We've heard it so often that we sometimes take for granted that it's true. But THE INTERNET CAN BE CONTROLLED, and those who argue otherwise are hastening the day when it will be controlled too much, by the wrong people, and for the wrong reasons.
Permalink | Saturday, August 18, 2001
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