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Electronic School: Online Learning Grows

Electronic School: Online Learning Grows Up
Students turn to online classes and schools for varied reasons, but they have one thing in common: They all want or need something that's not easily available in the traditional brick-and-mortar school building. Students in rural communities can take classes such as Latin or AP calculus that their schools are too small or too poor to offer. Sick or hospitalized students can finish their class work without falling behind. Gifted students, students who have problems in the regular classroom, students traveling with their parents -- increasingly these youngsters are turning to online learning as an alternative to regular education -- No longer an experiment, virtual schooling is here to stay.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 28, 2001

Learning Circuits: LCMS Roundup More

Learning Circuits: LCMS Roundup
More important, as LCMSs develop, so may their influence on e-learning instructional design. Because an LCMS's strength is its ability to modularize and manipulate content, developers can begin exploring new learning techniques. For instance, LCMSs are poised to address adaptive learning. "An inherent capability of LCMSs is adapting content to fit a learner's personal profile, not just by delivery mode but learning styles."

elearningpost: LCMS = LMS + CMS [RLOs]

Permalink | Tuesday, August 28, 2001

Guardian Unlimited: Football as a

Guardian Unlimited: Football as a language tool?
The British Council hopes a new football website, footballculture.net, will get people from all over the world learning English. With fans in over 150 countries, the Football Association and the bizarre phrases used by commentators could be the key to encouraging people to learn English, said the council, which is funded by the government to promote British education and culture overseas.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 28, 2001

BBC: Delhi children make play

BBC: Delhi children make play of the net
Children in the slum were intrigued by the icons on the computer, and completely without any help, gradually figured out how to use the computers and access the internet... within days the children were able to browse the internet, cut and paste copy, drag and drop items and create folders... By the second month they had discovered MP3 music files and they were downloading songs.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 28, 2001

Wired: The Ever-Evolving Science Class

Wired: The Ever-Evolving Science Class Educators promote a Web-based curriculum designed to engage students and make them want to learn. "We want teachers to move from being the 'sage on the stage' to a 'guide on the side,'" says the director of the program.

Permalink | Monday, August 27, 2001

KM World: What happens to

KM World: What happens to knowledge workers when the economy heads south?
In economically troubled times, managers must take a second look at the KM policies they are promoting. KM projects will fail if managers ask workers to act contrary to their own long-term best interests. KM is a highly political endeavor because workers lose ownership of the knowledge they share. When workers transfer their expertise to a broader community of practice, they could find their personal standing within an organization diminished. In some businesses, hoarding knowledge is a reliable means of gaining status...

Permalink | Monday, August 27, 2001

OS Opinion: Knowledge Management Isn’t

OS Opinion: Knowledge Management Isn't Enough
To derive the greatest value from knowledge channeling, organizations must understand the nature of their knowledge-based assets and how they link to other mission-critical assets and goals. Increased realization of knowledge as the core competence, coupled with recent advances in information technology such as intranets, World Wide Web, and portals, has given organizations the ability to channel knowledge to the right people at the right time.

Permalink | Monday, August 27, 2001

Information Week: Web Sites That

Information Week: Web Sites That Work
Certain sites have what it takes to succeed, even in this dot-bomb environment. What helps explain their winning ways? Take a look at our sampling of E-businesses that know how to meet or even beat their business goals, and see for yourself.

Permalink | Monday, August 27, 2001

Fast Company: Designed for Life

Fast Company: Designed for Life
Industrial designers gathered at an elite conference last week to meld their veneration of the new and fashionable with an appreciation for the old and lasting -- namely, the necessities for designing a meaningful life.

Permalink | Saturday, August 25, 2001

UIWeb: Interactionary - Sports for

UIWeb: Interactionary - Sports for design training and team building (via webword)
This is an experiment in design education.�The idea is to explode the process of design by forcing insane time constraints, and asking teams of designers to work together in front of a live audience. From what we've seen, it forces the discussion of design process, teamwork, and organization, and asks important questions about how designers do what they do. Below are summaries of previous events, and information about how to organize your own Interactionary.

Permalink | Saturday, August 25, 2001

The Australian: Conformity rules in

The Australian: Conformity rules in cyberspace
The theory that the anonymity offered by the internet will free its users to behave outside social norms has been shown to be a myth by a study at Murdoch University's school of psychology. Surprising results from the research reveal internet chat-room users replicate social behaviour from the off-line world, such as conforming to authority and peer pressure.

Permalink | Saturday, August 25, 2001

Wired: South Koreans: True Web

Wired: South Koreans: True Web Fiends
South Koreans are the world's most avid Internet surfers, followed by people in Hong Kong and the United States, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. A monthly study released this week by the measurement service showed that surfers in South Korea spent an average of 19 hours and 20 minutes online in July, topping the list in Internet usage.

Permalink | Saturday, August 25, 2001

eLearn Magazine: Usability, User Experience,

eLearn Magazine: Usability, User Experience, and Learner Experience
E-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-learning
Internet-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 Class
Most 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 Reading
When 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 University
The 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.