Wired: Who, What, Where, Why
Wired: Who, What, Where, Why and WebWeb-based journalism is shaking up the academy as journalism schools are scrambling to offer students multimedia skills at the expense, some faculty worry, of traditional reporting.
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MIT Technology Review: Old Dogs
MIT Technology Review: Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks Rethinking Corporate Research: Why and how IBM restored its world-class labs to business relevance.Add tag Permalink | Thursday, July 19, 2001
osOpinion: E-Learning and Knowledge Management
osOpinion: E-Learning and Knowledge Management at the Crossroads The majority of new employment skills are learned informally through discussions with co-workers, mentoring by managers/supervisors, rummaging through and finding knowledge gems buried in shared directories, e-mail threads and the like. Only about 25 percent of employee skills are learned from formal training methods such as workshops, seminars and synchronous classes.knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, July 18, 2001
The Chronicle: Online Instructor Cautions
The Chronicle: Online Instructor Cautions Against Having Too Many ActivitiesKathy S. Gresh is an instructional designer at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University. When designing online courses, she tries to build in tools to help the professors interact with their students, such as electronic bulletin boards and live chats. But she also says it's important not to overwhelm the professors or the students with too many activities.
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Salon: Why can’t Johnny respect
Salon: Why can't Johnny respect copyrights?In Britain, elementary-school classrooms prepare to preach reverence for intellectual property -- and to denounce the evils of file-sharing.
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Fast Company: Extreme Networking: MBAs
Fast Company: Extreme Networking: MBAs Show the WayThe incoming class of 2003 may be the most plugged-in class in the history of business schools. Indeed, business-school administrators are racing to keep up with the online demands of their cyber-savvy students. While most understand the need to put admissions information online and while the more progressive are starting to post financial-aid forms, housing lottery numbers, and course-registration materials for incoming students, some have been caught flat-footed by the instant-messenger generation's intense need to chat about every aspect of the business-school experience.
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Learning Circuits: Been There, Done
Learning Circuits: Been There, Done That: Notes on Developing WBTImplementing e-learning can be a confusing and overwhelming process. Here are lessons learned from someone who's been there.
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, July 17, 2001
Seattle Times: Knowledge-sharing platform proves
Seattle Times: Knowledge-sharing platform proves wise move for AskMe"Knowledge sharing is important because information has value in and of itself in our society... Clearly, we're increasingly becoming aware of the complexities of trying to share and transfer information and expertise within organizations and between organizations...Technologies that mediate that are going to be the next generation of the information revolution. They're the answer to our most complex set of questions."
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