CIO: Easy Writer Digital paper
CIO: Easy WriterDigital paper technology also has the potential to make reading a more interesting and interactive experience -- "Pages will be able to display more than just static text and pictures. Articles, books, instruction manuals and other documents could include animated text, animation and even video images."
Permalink | Friday, August 03, 2001
IT Training: E-learning’s value depends
IT Training: E-learning’s value depends on approachElliott Masie: We have to consider several things when judging the quality of e-learning. First, don’t just compare e-learning to the classroom. Look at what it can do on its own, where it can reach people that will never get to the classroom and how it can change the process of how we share knowledge.
Permalink | Thursday, August 02, 2001
Training Magazine: Not Just Playing
Training Magazine: Not Just Playing"Five years ago, I was blowing things up on online video games—and I got paid to do it. Now I work as an online training developer, and I watch things blow up all the time. Online game development and e-learning development share a lot in common: both are engaging, both use sophisticated production tools and both can be bottomless money pits."
Permalink | Thursday, August 02, 2001
KM Magazine: Personal Chemistry Dow
KM Magazine: Personal Chemistry Dow made a conscious decision to use information stewards rather than hope that KM values would grow throughout the company by themselves. "You can hope that things organically emerge in the right direction, or you can say nothing will happen unless you put senior people in these roles to be change agents. That's what we chose to do." -- Dow Chemical's information stewards are the catalysts for sharing across business units.Permalink | Thursday, August 02, 2001
KM Magazine: Getting the Most
KM Magazine: Getting the Most Out of Getting TogetherGiven today's array of virtual meeting tools, the old standby of real-time, face-to-face human interaction may seem like an endangered species. Bringing people together can be expensive, in terms of both time and money. But such gatherings often pay off down the line. Sometimes there's just no substitute for the positive impact that a face-to-face meeting can have on successful knowledge sharing--and on the bottom line as well.
Permalink | Thursday, August 02, 2001
MIT Technology Review: Lessons e-Learned
MIT Technology Review: Lessons e-LearnedQ&A with Richard Larson: A lot of my colleagues, who are otherwise impeccable scientists, make statements like "there is no substitute for face-to-face learning." I take that as a research hypothesis. Some might say, "We all know the on-campus experience is the best in the world." It's certainly the most expensive. The blackboard is basically an adaptation of cave drawings. In thirty thousand years there has been the invention of the eraser. A lot of my colleagues say asynchronous learning is revolutionary, but cave drawings are an example of that. The artist shared what he knew about buffalo, or what-have-you, and the painting made it asynchronous. The printing press revolutionized asynchronous learning.
Permalink | Wednesday, August 01, 2001
CIO: Quick Poll Report: CIOs
CIO: Quick Poll Report: CIOs shy away from e-learningE-learning may be a good idea, but it is not good enough to withstand more pressing priorities for CIOs in these tight economic times. Slightly more than 83 percent of respondents to a Quick Poll on CIO.com say they do not have an e-learning initiative underway, though many still recognize its potential.
Permalink | Wednesday, August 01, 2001
Audible.com: Who is the “on-line
Audible.com: Who is the "on-line learner"?What type of person chooses to pursue a degree on-line rather than in a traditional classroom? And are they confident their on-line degree will be worth anything in the marketplace? Hear this MarketplaceTech report on how high tech is changing education.
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Permalink | Wednesday, August 01, 2001
The Standard: Get With The
The Standard: Get With The Program Curl just might revolutionize the way Web sites are made. Who thinks so? Tim Berners-Lee. Curl's ubergeeks have created a programming language they claim encompasses everything HTML and Java can do, along with a browser plug-in to deliver Web content, à la Macromedia's Flash. Aiming to re-engineer the Web, they face an array of entrenched technologies. But investors have bet $52 million on its potential.Permalink | Wednesday, August 01, 2001
Fastrak-Consulting: Learning swap shop Peer-to-peer
Fastrak-Consulting: Learning swap shopPeer-to-peer technology, in the form of systems such as Napster, created a popular revolution that just for while threatened the smug complacency of the media industry and spawned talk of the next 'Internet revolution'. With Napster on the retreat in the face of a barrage of lawsuits, the P2P bandwagon may be grinding to a halt, but the potential for positive application of the power of peer-to-peer communication over networks is still alluring, not least to the e-learning industry.
Permalink | Tuesday, July 31, 2001
CNET: School’s out for virtual
CNET: School's out for virtual universityHarcourt Higher Education, which launched a much-ballyhooed online college in Massachusetts last year, is closing the school's virtual doors this fall without a single mortarboard tossed in the air.
Permalink | Tuesday, July 31, 2001
HBS Working Knowledge: Why Your
HBS Working Knowledge: Why Your Organization Isn't Learning All It ShouldWe propose that research on problem-solving behavior can provide critical insight into mechanisms through which organizations resist learning and change. In this paper, we describe typical front-line worker response to obstacles that hinder their effectiveness and argue that this pattern of behavior creates an important and overlooked barrier to organizational change.
Permalink | Tuesday, July 31, 2001
CNET: The art and innovation
CNET: The art and innovation behind a new IMLong associated with casual text-based conversations among teens and singles in America Online chat rooms, IM technology is now poised not only to gain mainstream acceptance, but to establish itself as an independent platform for a variety of communications and information-gathering applications.
Permalink | Tuesday, July 31, 2001
CNN: College courses inspired by
CNN: College courses inspired by TV showsObsessed with a favorite TV series? We've got a course you can't refuse, say many colleges and universities. Science students at Washington & Jefferson University in Washington, Pennsylvania, can learn some of the methods demonstrated on the CBS series, "CSI: Crime Scene Investigators...
Permalink | Monday, July 30, 2001
BizJournals: Online learning has its
BizJournals: Online learning has its limits, consultant says"I still think that instructor-led training will be around for a while, just because we're people creatures. I think it'd be a shame if we just relied on our computers for training without having personal interaction."
Permalink | Monday, July 30, 2001
BizJournals: Penn State offering online
BizJournals: Penn State offering online MBAPenn State University has joined the ranks of schools that are offering MBA courses online. The online master of business administration, dubbed the iMBA, launched this month.
Permalink | Monday, July 30, 2001
Red Herring: Generation now gets
Red Herring: Generation now gets up to speedDuring the first quarter of this year, while technology investors were fretting over the Nasdaq's slump, something else was happening that hadn't happened in five years: the output per hour of U.S. workers in the nonfarm business sector (the traditional measure of productivity) was lower than in the previous quarter -- 1.2 percent lower, to be exact. When word of this development got out in May, it sent economy watchers into a tizzy, reigniting long-standing arguments about whether investments in technology make companies more productive and whether these incremental improvements, in turn, produce a sustainable rate of productivity growth for the U.S. economy.
Permalink | Monday, July 30, 2001
Camworld: Just-in-Time Journalism Technology conferences
Camworld: Just-in-Time JournalismTechnology conferences and events are a natural point of origin for this new kind of "just-in-time journalism". Conference planners are now making it a point to have wireless Internet access available and those reporters with laptops and a wireless card can sit in the audience and quietly tap away, recording the event in realtime and publishing it on a web site. Delivering the information people crave, when they want it: instantly. In today's "instant access" society, on-demand information services may be just the thing to revive the current slump in online journalism and news. Think of it as a service. Perhaps even a service that people would pay for.
Permalink | Monday, July 30, 2001
USA Today: Anthropologists adapt technology
USA Today: Anthropologists adapt technology to world's culturesThink anthropologists spend their days hanging out in Pago Pago studying the local culture? Think again. Like everyone else, anthropologists and ethnographers increasingly are finding jobs with high-tech companies, using their highly developed skills as observers to study how people live, work and use technology.
Permalink | Saturday, July 28, 2001
The Chronicle: Maryland Colleges Band
The Chronicle: Maryland Colleges Band Together to Train Professors to Teach OnlineThe group, called the Faculty Online Technology Training Consortium, offered its first intensive training program last summer, putting 40 professors through nine days of training in how to teach in a virtual classroom. Those faculty members were then encouraged to go back to their institutions and instruct others in how to teach online.
Permalink | Saturday, July 28, 2001
Washington Post: Instant Messaging Isn’t
Washington Post: Instant Messaging Isn't Everyone's Next Best Thing Instant messaging -- the ability to zap text notes back and forth to people in real time -- is supposed to be the greatest thing since Coke in a can or beer in a keg. So why do so some Internet users want nothing to do with it?Permalink | Saturday, July 28, 2001
Wired: In Order to Have
Wired: In Order to Have Your AdviceIf you open an e-mail attachment, you're clueless. If you send an e-mail with an attachment, you're dumb, because only clueless people open them. That's Jon Rochmis' story, and he's sticking to it.
Permalink | Saturday, July 28, 2001
Technos: www.p2p.edu: Rip, Mix &
Technos: www.p2p.edu: Rip, Mix & Burn Your Education It's not your father's school—and it's not like yours, either. New technologies will revolutionize education with peer-to-peer intimacy, access, and speed.Permalink | Friday, July 27, 2001
ETR&D: A History of Instructional
ETR&D: A History of Instructional Design and Technology: Part II: A History of Instructional Design This part of the article focuses on the history of instructional design. Starting with a description of the efforts to develop training programs during World War II, and continuing on through the publication of some of the first instructional design models in the 1960s and 1970s, major events in the development of the instructional design process are described. Factors that have affected the field of instructional design over the last two decades, including increasing interest in cognitive psychology, microcomputers, performance technology, and constructivism, are also described.Permalink | Friday, July 27, 2001
CNET: The Webification of TV
CNET: The Webification of TV is happeningThe times are indeed a-changin'. Mainstream consumers are learning to expect more from their media. They are becoming comfortable with rich interactivity and the collage of user-driven content from multiple sources the Net is so effective at delivering. And surprisingly, TV is helping to take them there.
Permalink | Friday, July 27, 2001