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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.

Permalink | Tuesday, September 11, 2001

Business 2.0: How to Beat

Business 2.0: How to Beat Corporate Alzheimer's
Large 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.

Permalink | Tuesday, September 11, 2001

CBS: E-Learning: Computer As Classroom

CBS: E-Learning: Computer As Classroom
OK. 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.

Permalink | Monday, September 10, 2001

e-learning Magazine: Knowledge as Commodity

e-learning Magazine: Knowledge as Commodity
Programs 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.

Permalink | Monday, September 10, 2001

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.

Permalink | Monday, September 10, 2001

@issue: Resolve Rethinks the Workplace

@issue: Resolve Rethinks the Workplace
With "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.

Permalink | Monday, September 10, 2001

@issue: Fast Company’s Alan Webber

@issue: Fast Company's Alan Webber on Design
You 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.

Permalink | Monday, September 10, 2001

Resource: CETIS The centre for

Resource: CETIS
The centre for educational technology interoperability standards

Permalink | Saturday, September 08, 2001

Webmonkey: Animation Tutorial This comprehensive

Webmonkey: Animation Tutorial
This comprehensive overview covers GIF89, dHTML, Flash, audio, and the fundamentals of online animation excellence.

Permalink | Saturday, September 08, 2001

The Writer: A market whose

The Writer: A market whose time has come
The 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.

Permalink | Saturday, September 08, 2001

MIT Technology Review: The Virtual

MIT Technology Review: The Virtual Voyager
When 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...

Permalink | Saturday, September 08, 2001

Learning Circuits: Simulation Levels in

Learning Circuits: Simulation Levels in Software Training
A 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.

Permalink | Friday, September 07, 2001

The Chronicle: Distance Education Is

The Chronicle: Distance Education Is Harder on Women Than on Men, Study Finds
Distance-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.

Permalink | Friday, September 07, 2001

NY Times: Online Course Lets

NY Times: Online Course Lets the Isolated Bring Their Medical Skills Up to Date
The 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.

Permalink | Friday, September 07, 2001

Technology Source: Through the Looking

Technology Source: Through the Looking Glass: Student Perceptions of Online Learning
Two 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.

Permalink | Friday, September 07, 2001

Fast Company: Surviving la Vida

Fast Company: Surviving la Vida Loca
The 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.

Permalink | Friday, September 07, 2001

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.

Permalink | Thursday, September 06, 2001

Wired: Cheating’s Never Been Easier

Wired: Cheating's Never Been Easier
Plagiarists 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.

Permalink | Thursday, September 06, 2001

Wired: Distance Learning Yet to

Wired: Distance Learning Yet to Hit Home
Today, the distance learning market continues to grow, but much of the momentum has slowed. Many e-learning startups have gone belly-up, realizing the enormous costs of launching efficacious courses online.

Permalink | Thursday, September 06, 2001

HBS Working Knowledge: Messaging: Your

HBS Working Knowledge: Messaging: Your New Buddy
Recognizing that the tool is fast, easy, and offers a high-touch, real-time personal connection, businesses are starting to use IM internally (among employees) and externally (with clients and partners). But like many communication tools, IM's capacity to undermine as well as improve communication can hurt the unwary.

Permalink | Thursday, September 06, 2001

Training Magazine: The Future Training

Training Magazine: The Future Training Room And as for e-learning, well, move over. Sophisticated wearable computers offer the possibility of learners taking the training room wherever they go. Fanciful? Consider the concept of retinal scanning visors, small devices that will allow training manuals, job aids and all manner of performance support, even a live link to a subject matter expert, to be called up right in front of our eyes.