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Learning Circuits: Training E-Trainers It’s

Learning Circuits: Training E-Trainers
It’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.

Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, August 21, 2001

Houston Chronicle: Web-based pilot program

Houston Chronicle: Web-based pilot program shows promise
Classes 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?"

Add tag 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.

Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, August 21, 2001

Context Magazine: Degrees ‘R’ Us

Context Magazine: Degrees 'R' Us
Not 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.

Add tag 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."

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CIO: KM Works Magic for

CIO: KM Works Magic for Ketchum
Every 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...

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Webreview: Eleven Great Collaboration Tools

Webreview: Eleven Great Collaboration Tools
Fewer 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.

Add tag Permalink | Monday, August 20, 2001

E-learning Advisor: SAP Learning Management

E-learning Advisor: SAP Learning Management Solution
The 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.

Add tag 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.

Add tag Permalink | Saturday, August 18, 2001

Webmonkey: IE 6 Overview As

Webmonkey: IE 6 Overview
As the official release of Microsoft's latest browser looms, Mike gives a glimpse of what to expect, including the good (advanced P3P support), the bad (Smart Tags), and the whatever (integrated multimedia tools).

Add tag Permalink | Saturday, August 18, 2001

Business Week: The New Economy’s

Business Week: The New Economy's New Lingo
Of the thousands of words added to the language over the past century, the New Economy has added its fair share already -- from bitmap to cyberspace to dot-com to edutainment. The current decade may set a record for jargon and acronym overload. It isn't merely that throngs of new biotech, telecom, and Internet terms will enter the English lexicon. Abstract business-speak can also take on several meanings -- or new ones overnight -- From Silicon Valley to Wall Street, words are entering English so rapidly that even dictionary publishers are struggling to keep up.

Add tag Permalink | Saturday, August 18, 2001

Information Week: McDonald’s Breaks From

Information Week: McDonald's Breaks From E-Learning Provider
After three years, McDonald's Corp. has dropped E-learning content developer SmartForce LLC for rival KnowledgeNet.com Inc. to fulfill the online technical training needs of its IS department's 350-plus employees.

Add tag Permalink | Friday, August 17, 2001

Tech Learning: How to Launch

Tech Learning: How to Launch an Online School
We wanted our online program to include as many elements as possible from our bricks-and-mortar schools, and to be just as rigorous. Perhaps most important, we wanted parents to feel like they had a partner in educating their children. Since we didn't really have a model to work from, there were a lot of questions: What technology to buy? Who designs the classes, and how? What is the role of the teacher? In what ways would parents be involved?...

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Sydney Morning Herald: Lies, damn

Sydney Morning Herald: Lies, damn lies and Net statistics
Researchers still love the Internet, for they continue to count the ways the ways we use it, how much we use it, where we go online and why. And the data piles higher at the merest hint of an online transaction. Yet analysts are beginning to take a more sober look at research, particularly in the aftermath of the tech wreck, reconsidering the way research is gathered and the way it is used by the companies that commission it.

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NY Times: Squeezing the Office

NY Times: Squeezing the Office Into a Palm
In a continued effort to whittle away our remaining private minutes, the makers of hand-held computers have been waging a public-relations battle for the hearts of a critical clientele: corporate technology managers, who buy products by the hundreds to issue to their employees.

Add tag Permalink | Friday, August 17, 2001

Digital Web Magazine: Community Issue

Digital Web Magazine: Community Issue (via DfC)
The new issue of Digital Web Magazine is up, and this one's all about web community. Check it out for an enlightening feature on evolt, a tutorial by Matt Haughey, and an interview with Derek Powazek on writing the book 'Design for Community' and designing community sites.

community Add tag Permalink | Thursday, August 16, 2001

JOHO: Post-Modern Knowledge Management: A

JOHO: Post-Modern Knowledge Management: A One-Question Interview
Knowledge management has traditionally suffered from the hubris of modernism: the belief that we can discover ultimate truths and organize the world according to rational principles using clever code. The idea was that we should capture and organize bits of "knowledge" in central databases. The people involved were relevant only as donors to the common ontology or as empty vessels into which knowledge could be poured.

knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Thursday, August 16, 2001

Fast Company: He Drills for

Fast Company: He Drills for Knowledge
Knowledge-management guru John Old drills away at a potential gusher: the collective brainpower of Texaco's 18,000 employees in 150 countries. Their pool of knowledge ranges from how best to set the stroke depth of an oil-well pump to how to get the inside scoop on top competitors. Old's mandate inside Texaco, which pumps more than 1 million barrels of oil a day, is to connect people who have questions with the people who have answers -- helping the company to work faster and more efficiently.

Add tag Permalink | Thursday, August 16, 2001

Fast Company: Who Owns Your

Fast Company: Who Owns Your Intranet?
As companies march ahead with efforts to link employees through internal Web sites, they are learning a key design principle: If you want your intranet to take off, then take a hands-off approach. The case for intranet democracy.

Add tag Permalink | Thursday, August 16, 2001

Learning Circuits: Digital Copyrights and

Learning Circuits: Digital Copyrights and Wrongs
Whether you're facilitating online learning, researching training stats, or just plain curious, it pays to know what you're getting into when using electronic content--and how to stay out of hot water. Here are some tips for navigating digital copyright issues.

Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 15, 2001

USA Today: Investors study e-learning

USA Today: Investors study e-learning programs
Investors learned the hard way that dog food and books aren't exactly big moneymakers for online retailers. But some wonder if investors still smitten with the Internet bug are getting too giddy about stocks of companies selling education on the Internet.

Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 15, 2001

Yahoo! News: DigitalThink to buy

Yahoo! News: DigitalThink to buy LearningByte for 4.5 mln shares DigitalThink Inc., a provider of Internet-based education solutions for corporations, announced on Tuesday an agreement to acquire LearningByte International, a provider of custom "e-learning'' courseware, for about 4.5 million shares, or $60.5 million.

Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 15, 2001

Content Spotlight: Use Your Subhead

Content Spotlight: Use Your Subhead
In Web writing, we serve our readers poorly if we don't give them some way to grasp the whole document while making it easy to find and understand particular sections. Enter the subhead.

Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 15, 2001

The Chronicle: With National e-University,

The Chronicle: With National e-University, Britain Gets in the Online-Education Game Although only a few universities will offer courses through the e-University when it puts its first materials online next year, the government plan calls for all higher-education institutions in Britain to be members of the holding company that owns and administers the project. The e-University will not award degrees on its own, but the participating programs will be marketed jointly and will share some technological infrastructure. The effort will be financed by a combination of government and private money.

Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, August 14, 2001

Reading Online: A Face-to-Face Graduate

Reading Online: A Face-to-Face Graduate Class Goes Online: Challenges and Successes In this column, I want to share what online learning looks like in my context, the problems I have encountered, and what I have found out along the way about providing effective online learning for the teachers in my university-level courses. Clearly the use of technology as a tool for learning is something that most school educators are dealing with in their classrooms. Indeed, in Australia this has been written into school policies and curricula. However, with respect to teacher education -- be it at the preservice, inservice, or graduate level -- we are only just beginning to realize the potential that technology has for learners.

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