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SiliconValley.com: Revisiting isolation and its

SiliconValley.com: Revisiting isolation and its link to the Internet
Back in 1998, Robert Kraut, a professor of social psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, released a study, HomeNet, that found the Net was dangerous to one's social and psychological well-being... Now, Kraut and colleagues are back with another report, Internet Paradox Revisited, due to be published next spring in the Journal of Social Issues. In re-interviewing the subjects of the first study, the researchers found depression significantly declined with Internet use and social isolation was not associated with high Internet use.

Permalink | Friday, August 10, 2001

The Chronicle: Australia Will Spend

The Chronicle: Australia Will Spend $100-Million on Distance Programs for Developing Countries
Tens of thousands of teachers, students, and officials in developing countries will receive training in specific skills over the Internet, becoming "virtual students" in Australian universities. Younger students will undertake Net-based school programs devised in Australia.

Permalink | Thursday, August 09, 2001

Chicago Tribune: Internet provides academic

Chicago Tribune: Internet provides academic alternatives
Grayslake man earns PhD online -- Knott enrolled at Capella, paying up to $12,000 a year in tuition to take business administration courses. He finished his doctorate program in November, becoming one of 400 graduates from the school in its seven-year history.

Permalink | Thursday, August 09, 2001

KM World: Teach your staffers

KM World: Teach your staffers well
Canada’s oldest corporation is using some new technology to provide its more than 70,000 employees with online training. Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), founded in 1670, has become the first customer of the Bell e-Learning Center.

Permalink | Thursday, August 09, 2001

Transform Magazine: Web Content: How

Transform Magazine: Web Content: How to Get it Right
Content management systems have universally attacked the problem of "webmaster bottleneck" by moving Web content creation and publication responsibilities from the Web team to content creators themselves. Unless businesses that implement Web content management systems are careful, however, this new workflow can create its own problems.

Permalink | Thursday, August 09, 2001

Fast Company: The Next Revolution

Fast Company: The Next Revolution
The children of the Internet, Lewis discovered, have embraced the technology in a way their parents cannot grasp and have used it to do things their elders can't even envision. In the process, they are spurring change and innovation at an evermore rapid clip and are wreaking havoc on social systems as they go -- Q&A with Michael Lewis, author of Next: The Future Just Happened.

Permalink | Thursday, August 09, 2001

Internet.com: Yahoo! Education Opens Virtual

Internet.com: Yahoo! Education Opens Virtual Classrooms
With the new school year is poised to begin, Yahoo! Tuesday launched a new free resource portal for college, high school and middle school teachers and students...The site includes ways for instructors to post class rosters, calendars, and syllabi, and contact students through private classroom message boards and e-mail.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 08, 2001

The Chronicle: UNext Seeks to

The Chronicle: UNext Seeks to Restructure Its Relationships With Universities
Several sources familiar with the distance-learning market have speculated that UNext will try to get its academic partners to reduce the amount of money UNext has guaranteed to pay them. Although the deals are confidential, the payments have been widely reported to be worth about $20-million for each partner, over a number of years.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 08, 2001

First Monday: Technology, Schools and

First Monday: Technology, Schools and the Decentralization of Culture
Most analyses of culture and technology have been fascinated, even transfixed, by all the wonderful things that can be created and shared using digital tools. Rarely have these cultural analyses explored the issue of how such technological tools are going to impact how individuals interact and organize around cultural content that is fluid and contested. This is particularly problematic for schools as technological tools allow students to reject, share and contest the fixed content that has historically been disseminated through a narrow range of books and pedagogical strategies. This paper seeks to develop a theoretical model of culture that can account for change in what was, and still is, considered by many social scientists to be impermeable structural boundaries. By conceptualizing technology as a symbolic tool, it is hoped that the model of culture developed in this paper can begin to explain how social relations in institutions such as schools can change in a manner that will upset existing hierarchical social relations.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 08, 2001

New Media: It’s The Content

New Media: It's The Content Management, Stupid
It's remarkable that given how much we know about library science, and how available digital asset management systems are, that most companies continue to store their content in scattered folders or on local hard disks with no catalog system...A combination of good process decisions and strong software to support and automate parts of the process can save even mid-sized companies thousands of dollars a day.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 08, 2001

Learning Circuits: Executive Summary: A

Learning Circuits: Executive Summary: A Vision of E-Learning for America's Workforce
Recent technological advances have laid the foundation for a learning revolution that will clearly take place in the years ahead. The Commission on Technology and Adult Learning believes that e-learning will play a vitally important role in equipping workers with the skills they need to succeed in the 21st-century digital economy. Here are its recommendations.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 07, 2001

Learning Circuits: Strategic Plans from

Learning Circuits: Strategic Plans from Scratch
A strategic plan helps organizations address those issues. Unfortunately, strategic plans are uncommon among many training departments. Here's some help writing a basic plan.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 07, 2001

MemphisBusinessJournal: Access: Distance learning brings

MemphisBusinessJournal: Access: Distance learning brings campus to those with limited time
Students from Bolivia, Turkey and Germantown will come together for college classes this fall at the University of Memphis, which is nothing unusual -- except that when class is over, they'll switch off their computers and go back to their regular lives in Bolivia, Turkey and Germantown.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 07, 2001

Useit.com: First Rule of Usability?

Useit.com: First Rule of Usability? Don't Listen to Users
To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 07, 2001

WR Hambrecht + Co:

WR Hambrecht + Co: Industry Update: Another Strong Quarter for e-Learning We review last week’s activity in the e-learning sector including earnings reports from Docent, WebEx, Vcampus, eCollege, Scientific Learning, among others. Recent events and deals in the sector are highlighted as well.

Permalink | Monday, August 06, 2001

BBC: Sick children keep up

BBC: Sick children keep up online
Gridlink is the name of an online learning service provided by the charity Present - formerly called the National Association for the Education of Sick Children. The service uses fax, e-mail and the internet to help youngsters - who are unable to attend school - keep on top of the national curriculum.

Permalink | Monday, August 06, 2001

Information Week: Teaching Oracle Basics

Information Week: Teaching Oracle Basics
Oracle academy trains high school teachers in Java and SQL -- Oracle has high hopes for the new program. It's investing around $400,000 per school for teacher training--including an eight-week E-learning course before the on-campus experience--as well as servers and related hardware, the database, and hosting the SQL programming environment.

Permalink | Monday, August 06, 2001

Knowledge@Wharton: How Companies Sponsor, Listen

Knowledge@Wharton: How Companies Sponsor, Listen in and Learn From Chat Rooms
When Chrysler wanted to promote interest in its new stylized PT Cruiser, the company set up chat rooms and discussion boards on its own corporate website where customers could share information about the product and create that all important buzz. Yes, there are downsides to corporate chat rooms/discussion boards, but for certain companies the benefits can be substantial.

Permalink | Monday, August 06, 2001

MIT Technology Review: Mining for

MIT Technology Review: Mining for Meaning
Online newsgroups are popular gathering spots; over the years they've logged millions of opinions on topics ranging from politics to appliances... All these postings add up to a trove of public opinion that sociologists, linguists and market researchers would love to analyze; and software projects at IBM and the University of California at Berkeley are beginning to develop the analytical tools they'll need. Unlike Web search engines, which try to find the best matches for any one query, these efforts focus on understanding how communities of individuals interact online, and how their opinions evolve.

Permalink | Saturday, August 04, 2001

Online Journalism Review: The Second

Online Journalism Review: The Second Coming of Personalized News
If, as some of us believe, the Web is not a one-to-many mass medium but a many-to-many medium for the masses, personalization will play a key role in forging this new bond between publisher and user. The nirvana of one-to-one communication and marketing has not yet arrived, but by recognizing the importance of serving hundreds of different readerships simultaneously, online publications are moving toward a higher order of individualized news. No longer can they afford to treat readers as undifferentiated, generalized, lumpen masses.

Permalink | Saturday, August 04, 2001

Knowledge@Wharton: How Linus Torvalds Found

Knowledge@Wharton: How Linus Torvalds Found Fun, and a New Operating System Linus Torvalds is the poster boy of the open source software movement, an arch enemy of Bill Gates and a guy who just wants to have fun. At least that’s the message of his recently-published Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, in which Torvalds explains to us the humble origins of his Linux operating system.

Permalink | Saturday, August 04, 2001

SiliconValley.com:Ah, Fridays: the day the

SiliconValley.com:Ah, Fridays: the day the workplace goes home Employees fortunate enough to work say business all but grinds to a halt on Friday. To get through these ``lean'' times, several computer company employees catch up on paperwork, review e-mails and even visit their gyms several times a day on Friday just to fill up their days.

Permalink | Saturday, August 04, 2001

E-learning Magazine: Courses for Profit

E-learning Magazine: Courses for Profit
Just about everyone agrees that e-learning is good for students. What has not been thoroughly addressed, however, is the effect of distance education on teachers, particularly in higher education. I contend that teachers often get the short end of the e-learning stick. We can fix this, but we need to define the problem better and then agree on some solutions.

Permalink | Friday, August 03, 2001

E-learning Magazine: How to Teach

E-learning Magazine: How to Teach Online While many characteristics and issues of the traditional classroom are similar to the online classroom, there are major differences in how these courses are managed. (This is an important issue to note because instruction via technology is still considered optional in teacher training curricula at most colleges and universities.) For example, online communication, classroom activities, and technology issues are quite different...

Permalink | Friday, August 03, 2001

E-learning Advisor: Where Is E-Learning

E-learning Advisor: Where Is E-Learning Headed?
As e-learning technology and practices mature, expect more interactivity, greater topic coverage, and a wider range of uses. Gartner reports on some of the dominant trends in e-learning -- driving forces that will influence users, vendors, and service providers. Here are the top 10...

Permalink | Friday, August 03, 2001

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