BBC: Sick children keep up
BBC: Sick children keep up onlineGridlink 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 BasicsOracle 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 RoomsWhen 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 MeaningOnline 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 NewsIf, 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 ProfitJust 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
CIO: Easy Writer Digital paper
CIO: Easy WriterDigital paper technology also has the potential to make reading a more interesting and interactive experience -- "Pages will be able to display more than just static text and pictures. Articles, books, instruction manuals and other documents could include animated text, animation and even video images."
Permalink | Friday, August 03, 2001
IT Training: E-learning’s value depends
IT Training: E-learning’s value depends on approachElliott Masie: We have to consider several things when judging the quality of e-learning. First, don’t just compare e-learning to the classroom. Look at what it can do on its own, where it can reach people that will never get to the classroom and how it can change the process of how we share knowledge.
Permalink | Thursday, August 02, 2001
Training Magazine: Not Just Playing
Training Magazine: Not Just Playing"Five years ago, I was blowing things up on online video games—and I got paid to do it. Now I work as an online training developer, and I watch things blow up all the time. Online game development and e-learning development share a lot in common: both are engaging, both use sophisticated production tools and both can be bottomless money pits."
Permalink | Thursday, August 02, 2001
KM Magazine: Personal Chemistry Dow
KM Magazine: Personal Chemistry Dow made a conscious decision to use information stewards rather than hope that KM values would grow throughout the company by themselves. "You can hope that things organically emerge in the right direction, or you can say nothing will happen unless you put senior people in these roles to be change agents. That's what we chose to do." -- Dow Chemical's information stewards are the catalysts for sharing across business units.Permalink | Thursday, August 02, 2001
KM Magazine: Getting the Most
KM Magazine: Getting the Most Out of Getting TogetherGiven today's array of virtual meeting tools, the old standby of real-time, face-to-face human interaction may seem like an endangered species. Bringing people together can be expensive, in terms of both time and money. But such gatherings often pay off down the line. Sometimes there's just no substitute for the positive impact that a face-to-face meeting can have on successful knowledge sharing--and on the bottom line as well.
Permalink | Thursday, August 02, 2001
MIT Technology Review: Lessons e-Learned
MIT Technology Review: Lessons e-LearnedQ&A with Richard Larson: A lot of my colleagues, who are otherwise impeccable scientists, make statements like "there is no substitute for face-to-face learning." I take that as a research hypothesis. Some might say, "We all know the on-campus experience is the best in the world." It's certainly the most expensive. The blackboard is basically an adaptation of cave drawings. In thirty thousand years there has been the invention of the eraser. A lot of my colleagues say asynchronous learning is revolutionary, but cave drawings are an example of that. The artist shared what he knew about buffalo, or what-have-you, and the painting made it asynchronous. The printing press revolutionized asynchronous learning.
Permalink | Wednesday, August 01, 2001
CIO: Quick Poll Report: CIOs
CIO: Quick Poll Report: CIOs shy away from e-learningE-learning may be a good idea, but it is not good enough to withstand more pressing priorities for CIOs in these tight economic times. Slightly more than 83 percent of respondents to a Quick Poll on CIO.com say they do not have an e-learning initiative underway, though many still recognize its potential.
Permalink | Wednesday, August 01, 2001
Audible.com: Who is the “on-line
Audible.com: Who is the "on-line learner"?What type of person chooses to pursue a degree on-line rather than in a traditional classroom? And are they confident their on-line degree will be worth anything in the marketplace? Hear this MarketplaceTech report on how high tech is changing education.
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Permalink | Wednesday, August 01, 2001
The Standard: Get With The
The Standard: Get With The Program Curl just might revolutionize the way Web sites are made. Who thinks so? Tim Berners-Lee. Curl's ubergeeks have created a programming language they claim encompasses everything HTML and Java can do, along with a browser plug-in to deliver Web content, à la Macromedia's Flash. Aiming to re-engineer the Web, they face an array of entrenched technologies. But investors have bet $52 million on its potential.Permalink | Wednesday, August 01, 2001
Fastrak-Consulting: Learning swap shop Peer-to-peer
Fastrak-Consulting: Learning swap shopPeer-to-peer technology, in the form of systems such as Napster, created a popular revolution that just for while threatened the smug complacency of the media industry and spawned talk of the next 'Internet revolution'. With Napster on the retreat in the face of a barrage of lawsuits, the P2P bandwagon may be grinding to a halt, but the potential for positive application of the power of peer-to-peer communication over networks is still alluring, not least to the e-learning industry.
Permalink | Tuesday, July 31, 2001
CNET: School’s out for virtual
CNET: School's out for virtual universityHarcourt Higher Education, which launched a much-ballyhooed online college in Massachusetts last year, is closing the school's virtual doors this fall without a single mortarboard tossed in the air.
Permalink | Tuesday, July 31, 2001
HBS Working Knowledge: Why Your
HBS Working Knowledge: Why Your Organization Isn't Learning All It ShouldWe propose that research on problem-solving behavior can provide critical insight into mechanisms through which organizations resist learning and change. In this paper, we describe typical front-line worker response to obstacles that hinder their effectiveness and argue that this pattern of behavior creates an important and overlooked barrier to organizational change.
Permalink | Tuesday, July 31, 2001
CNET: The art and innovation
CNET: The art and innovation behind a new IMLong associated with casual text-based conversations among teens and singles in America Online chat rooms, IM technology is now poised not only to gain mainstream acceptance, but to establish itself as an independent platform for a variety of communications and information-gathering applications.
Permalink | Tuesday, July 31, 2001
CNN: College courses inspired by
CNN: College courses inspired by TV showsObsessed with a favorite TV series? We've got a course you can't refuse, say many colleges and universities. Science students at Washington & Jefferson University in Washington, Pennsylvania, can learn some of the methods demonstrated on the CBS series, "CSI: Crime Scene Investigators...
Permalink | Monday, July 30, 2001
BizJournals: Online learning has its
BizJournals: Online learning has its limits, consultant says"I still think that instructor-led training will be around for a while, just because we're people creatures. I think it'd be a shame if we just relied on our computers for training without having personal interaction."
Permalink | Monday, July 30, 2001