Guardian Unlimited: Prime time for
Guardian Unlimited: Prime time for learningCourses based on BBC1 programmes will be offered to UK undergraduates for the first time tonight. The producers of a David Attenborough programme about oceans, which starts this evening, asked the Open University to create a course for people interested in issues raised by the television series.
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The Chronicle: San Diego Company
The Chronicle: San Diego Company Quietly Provides Online Courses to Nearly 1,000 InstitutionsThe company, Education to Go, offers not-for-credit courses in all 50 states and five countries. Company officials say it currently offers courses through 945 client institutions, including almost 700 community colleges and more than 200 universities and other four-year institutions. It has 135 courses in its catalog now, and has 200 more in development, with four new titles coming out each week for the next year.
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Wired: Who Said the Web
Wired: Who Said the Web Fell Apart? Dave Winer: "We, collectively, got on it very quickly once it was clear that the the news sites were choked with flow and didn't have very much info.... There's power in the new communication and development medium we're mastering. Far from being dead, the Web is just getting started."Add tag Permalink | Thursday, September 13, 2001
NY Times: Web Offers Both
NY Times: Web Offers Both News and ComfortThe major news Web sites were quickly overloaded. Many links to the not-so-major news Web sites stopped working. But more than news, what people all over the world craved in the wake of yesterday's terrorist attacks was connection to each other, and many of them found that most easily achieved by going online.
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eLearn Magazine: Share and Share
eLearn Magazine: Share and Share Alike Several years ago, Harvard law professor Arthur Miller sold videos of his lectures to an online law school called the Concord School of Law. Not at all pleased when it discovered what he had done, Harvard accused him of violating University policy. Miller retorted he had violated no such policy, and the lectures were his intellectual property. And so the two parties began a lengthy debate over who owns what, and what rights that ownership bestows.Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Wired: Kids, Academics Share Internet2
Wired: Kids, Academics Share Internet2Internet2 is working with state education networks to bring high performance networking and applications to K-12 schools and community colleges.
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icWales: On-line learning initiative is
icWales: On-line learning initiative is aimed at entrepreneursEnterprise College Wales has received multi-million pound backing from the European Social Fund via the Objective One initiative. This heralds the start of a fresh approach to new business start-up in Wales by providing Internet-based training opportunities geared towards entrepreneurs.
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The Chronicle: Should Distance Students
The Chronicle: Should Distance Students Pay for Campus-Based Services?Student-fee structures have always been unfair to some degree -- not every undergraduate gets sick enough to visit the student-health service, for instance, and some students may use a fee-supported campus bus service every day while classmates who have paid the same fee ride their bikes to and fro. But when online students live hundreds of miles away, paying fees for campus services can become a source of considerably greater discontent.
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Business 2.0: How to Beat
Business 2.0: How to Beat Corporate Alzheimer'sLarge consulting firms touted half-baked KM software as a panacea for enterprise information management in the late 1990s. Early KM software required employees -- or a cadre of librarians -- to carefully organize and annotate information before it could be managed. That approach proved too labor-intensive and expensive to be worthwhile. Today, KM is making a comeback on the strength of better solutions -- namely, the humble search engine.
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CBS: E-Learning: Computer As Classroom
CBS: E-Learning: Computer As ClassroomOK. So the kids are back at school. Now, maybe it's your turn, by continuing your education online. AOL online adviser Regina Lewis visits The Saturday Early Show Sept. 8 to talk about the possibilities.
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e-learning Magazine: Knowledge as Commodity
e-learning Magazine: Knowledge as CommodityPrograms that are pedagogically sound but not fiscally sound may not be endorsed by the administration because of financial strain to the organization. Conversely, programs that are fiscally sound but not pedagogically sound will not be endorsed by the faculty whom it represents. The idea approach is to develop or maintain programs that are pedagogically and fiscally sound.
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Gerry McGovern: Are online communities
Gerry McGovern: Are online communities working?The online community model was undoubtedly over hyped. As a business model it has shown little sustainability. However, wherever there is a subject that people can get passionate about, the online community has a role to play. The Internet is the ultimate grapevine and, in particular, the organization should not ignore voices of discontent.
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@issue: Resolve Rethinks the Workplace
@issue: Resolve Rethinks the WorkplaceWith "Free Dilbert" as its rallying cry, Herman Miller's Resolve design team set out to liberate the beleaguered cartoon office worker from the confines of his cubicle and place him in an environment offering light, air and collaborative stimulation.
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@issue: Fast Company’s Alan Webber
@issue: Fast Company's Alan Webber on DesignYou can use the technology that blew up pyramidal organizations to create all kinds of community connections and relationships that previously were limited by geography or by the capacity of sharing and spreading information. One thing that is on the pulse of the moment is the need for people in the New Economy to have a sense of community, to reinforce it with well-designed communication tools, to design and develop their own rituals, their own practices that make the community more than just a cheap fad of the moment. That's what design does. It provides the recognizers and the habits and the signposts that people depend on so that you have more than just the trappings of community; you have the real underpinnings and muscle of community.
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Resource: CETIS The centre for
Resource: CETISThe centre for educational technology interoperability standards
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Webmonkey: Animation Tutorial This comprehensive
Webmonkey: Animation TutorialThis comprehensive overview covers GIF89, dHTML, Flash, audio, and the fundamentals of online animation excellence.
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The Writer: A market whose
The Writer: A market whose time has comeThe best part? Despite their allure, most online markets are more receptive than print markets. The medium is still so new that there's less competition, with fewer writers vying for their attention. Endearing, isn't it? Online markets don't even know how attractive they are.
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MIT Technology Review: The Virtual
MIT Technology Review: The Virtual VoyagerWhen I leave the cave and walk outside, my head swims with the images I've seen. The worlds the cave can conjure definitely look real. But as I stand out in the sun and feel the summer breeze, I realize that in the cave there's nothing to smell, not much to hear and certainly nothing to taste or touch...
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Learning Circuits: Simulation Levels in
Learning Circuits: Simulation Levels in Software TrainingA key aspect to WBT programs is the use of simulations. However, even relatively simple software applications can be extremely complex and require a large range of user interactions. But building a simulation of every application feature makes the training module as complicated as the application. For this reason, instructional designers employ several techniques to simplify simulations for training, including screen capture, point-and-click, data input, multiple paths, and full simulation.
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The Chronicle: Distance Education Is
The Chronicle: Distance Education Is Harder on Women Than on Men, Study FindsDistance-education classes often add another layer to a woman's workday. Women find time for a "third shift" of study time and online classes early in the morning or late at night, in the free time between the first shift of a full-time job and the second shift of homemaking or taking care of children, the report says.
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NY Times: Online Course Lets
NY Times: Online Course Lets the Isolated Bring Their Medical Skills Up to DateThe students are also provided with a CD-ROM that has supplemental video and audio materials that would take too long to download given the slow-speed connections that are the norm in El Salvador and other countries. For the pilot project, an instructor is also traveling throughout Central America to meet with each student for a hands-on clinical workshop, and for the final evaluation before awarding the certificate.
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Technology Source: Through the Looking
Technology Source: Through the Looking Glass: Student Perceptions of Online LearningTwo things emerge in the study of students' attitudes toward online learning: individual situations impact students' perceptions of computer-based learning, and students' individual characteristics make it difficult to define their perceptions conclusively. For example, some students have their own computers, while others rely on computer labs. Such variation in computer access can result in attitudinal differences.
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Fast Company: Surviving la Vida
Fast Company: Surviving la Vida LocaThe knowledge economy is here to stay. And to thrive within it, we must reorder our work and our lives so that the individual is above the corporation and that the social network ranks above the career ladder. Achieving balance today is a hard-wrought process that we should feel obliged -- not just encouraged -- to begin immediately. Here are five of her steps for making the new world of work work for you.
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Online Community Report: Interview with
Online Community Report: Interview with Gail Ann Williams, Salon.com Furthermore, there is something so innately engaging about dialogue, especially when you know the participants and have any kind of stake in the outcome or information, that you are dealing with a serial medium, with the ads on the margins simply invisible. It's like having a discussion in your kitchen with the radio playing softly and your friends talking. Will people fall silent and shift their attention to the commercials when they come on? Almost never, no matter how hard-hitting, funny or celebrity-studded the commercials are. The conversation group is real, the radio ads are canned. And that is how a good online forum feels. Real people, freeze-dried ads.community Add tag Permalink | Thursday, September 06, 2001
Wired: Cheating’s Never Been Easier
Wired: Cheating's Never Been EasierPlagiarists have vexed school officials since the dawn of the term paper. But only recently have students been armed with what might be the ultimate cheating tool... In a survey underway at the University of Virginia, faculty cited the Internet as the No. 1 societal force leading students to commit acts of plagiarism.
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