Adaptive Path: The Business Value of Web Standards
Adaptive Path: The Business Value of Web Standards"[h]ow important is standardization to an individual business like ours? Do Web standards give organizations a return on investment? Does the transition to XHTML and CSS make financial sense? The answer to those questions is yes."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, September 19, 2003
StudioID: Blogging in Corporate America
StudioID: Blogging in Corporate America"This is a presentation I gave to the Usability Professionals Association on 16 September 2003. The full title was "Making sense of weblogs in the intranet: What they are, why people are using them, making them useful for knowledge management". I talked about weblogs inside my company, their use in knowledge management, and how my organization is hoping to make them usable for enterprise knowledge work if the number of blogs in the company increases significantly."
[thanks headshift]
blogging Add tag Permalink | Thursday, September 18, 2003
IBM Systems Journal: The new dynamics ofstrategy: Sense-makingin a complex andcomplicated world
IBM Systems Journal: The new dynamics of strategy: Sense-making in a complex and complicated world"In this paper, we challenge the universality of three basic assumptions prevalent in organizational decision support and strategy: assumptions of order, of rational choice, and of intent. We describe the Cynefin framework, a sense-making device we have developed to help people make sense of the complexities made visible by the relaxation of these assumptions."
[By Cynthia Kurtz and David Snowden]
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, September 18, 2003
NY Times: When Books Break the Bank
NY Times: When Books Break the Bank"In the past two decades, the price of textbooks has soared. The price of educational books and supplies has risen 238 percent, while the price of consumer goods over all has increased only 51 percent, according to the Consumer Price Index... But more and more, students are fighting back, finding ways to reduce the costs. They are sharing books, using library copies or going online to find cheap used copies."
[thanks Stephen's Web]
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, September 18, 2003
Minnesota Historical Society: Forest, Fields, and the Falls
Minnesota Historical Society: Forest, Fields, and the FallsA comic book-style portrayal of Minnesota life in 1900, told through the stories of four real people. Simply brilliant.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Transform Magazine: Putting it Together: Taxonomy, Classification & Search
Transform Magazine: Putting it Together: Taxonomy, Classification & SearchThis article tries to make the argument that having a taxonomy, classifying documents into the taxonomy, and having a search function to mine through both is a necessity for large intranets.
taxonomy, intranets Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, September 17, 2003
Stephen’s Web: Edu_RSS
Stephen's Web: Edu_RSS"Live RSS feeds from 130 important sources in online education and learning."
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, September 17, 2003
McGee’s Musings: From managing knowledge to coaching knowledge workers
McGee's Musings: From managing knowledge to coaching knowledge workers"This approach also leads you to a strategy of coaching knowledge workers toward improving their ability to perform, instead of training them to a set standard of performance. In this respect, knowledge workers are more like world class athletes than either assembly line workers or artists. There are building block skills and techniques that can be developed and the external perspective of a coach can help improve both. But it's the individual knowledge worker who deploys the skills and techniques to create a unique result."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, September 16, 2003
CLO: Developing Competency-Driven Learning Content
CLO: Developing Competency-Driven Learning Content"Using a competency-based training development process that incorporates performance maps (a one-page summary graphic drawing a line of sight from company goals to individual performance), companies can quickly prioritize competencies for a role. This prioritization helps identify which key competencies individual employees should focus on enhancing, as well as the competency-driven learning content that should be developed to support training objectives. This identification and prioritization process best prepares companies to meet the training needs of our ever-changing business environment."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Good Experience: Interview: Peter Coughlan, IDEO
Good Experience: Interview: Peter Coughlan, IDEO"We took IDEO's core process, and added new tools and methods to help instigate organizational change. Our high-level operating theory is, engage with the client, do a design project together. Use what you've learned from that to learn about the organization. Then redesign the *organization* to meet this offering you've created. So - design the offering first, then design the organization to successfully deliver that offering."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Poynter: The State of News Multimedia
Poynter: The State of News MultimediaFinally, if your organization is interested in doing a better job of online storytelling -- and perhaps winning in next year's SND.ies -- here's some advice from the judges on multimedia news content:
- Don't be too clever with your interface design. Make it easy for the reader without adding superfluous tricks that detract from the content.
- Don't throw too many "gee whiz, look what I can do" components into a multimedia project, when a more routine approach would have been just as, if not more, effective.
- Don't toss too much information in a multimedia package unless you're got a clear organizational scheme with which to guide readers through. Many designers add sounds to buttons, but making them too loud or obnoxious is a turn-off.
- If you're a small online-news organization, don't try to do too many multimedia projects. Focus on doing a few well during the year, rather than a bunch not as well.
interface Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 15, 2003
EDUCAUSE: Revolution in Knowledge Sharing
EDUCAUSE: Revolution in Knowledge Sharing"It is remarkable how unreflective many academics and educators are about the nature of knowledge, outside of their immediate domains of interest. To be sure, they hold some types of knowledge in high regard, and they respect the highly personalized knowledge that academics and practicing professionals have accumulated. But academic knowledge substantially remains a 'cottage industry,' with both tacit and explicit knowledge the purview of isolated craftspeople and professional guilds
Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 15, 2003
Learning Lab Denmark: Open-ended manifesto on research and learning
Learning Lab Denmark: Open-ended manifesto on research and learning"Nice compilation of observations that covers Learning, Knowledge Society, Consortia, Organization and Research. For example, here
research Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 15, 2003
HBS Working Knowledge: Crafting a Powerful Executive Summary
HBS Working Knowledge: Crafting a Powerful Executive Summary"Responding to a request for proposals (RFP) is pretty straightforward. You describe your company's history, your product or service, its implementation schedule, and the support you'll provide. The one stumbling block is the one section that everyone will read: the executive summary. What is its purpose? If you answered, to summarize the proposal , think again."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 15, 2003
elearningpost Server Down
elearningpost Server DownSorry for not posting for a few days. My web host decided to move to a new server. As a result my Movable Type Berkley database started giving some problems. Eventually I had to export all my entries from the old server and import them into the new server, along with all the templates. Everything is working fine now.
Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 15, 2003
Learning Circuits: Leveraging Mobile and Wireless Internet
Learning Circuits: Leveraging Mobile and Wireless Internet"The world of mobile and wireless computing is evolving fast. However, in order to fully leverage the mobile Internet for learning, the e-learning community needs to think in terms of performance and productivity rather than traditional lecture style training or courseware. Once we untether ourselves from traditional courseware paradigm, we
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Learning Circuits: E-Learning Brain Trust
Learning Circuits: E-Learning Brain Trust"Everyone
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, September 10, 2003
elearn Magazine: Is Instructional Design Becoming a Commodity?
elearn Magazine: Is Instructional Design Becoming a Commodity?"Like some architects, IDs may have become their own worst enemies by spending too much of their time (and their clients
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, September 09, 2003
CNN: Tech lends an ear to the workplace
CNN: Tech lends an ear to the workplace"More and more bosses are turning to Web-based surveys to listen to their workers -- whether it's a complaint about management or new ideas on a staff canteen... Employees have a lot to say, and if you build trust into the reporting process, they will tell you what's going on -- the good, bad, and ugly."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, September 09, 2003
Boxes and Arrows: Sitemaps and Site Indexes: What They Are and Why You Should Have Them
Boxes and Arrows: Sitemaps and Site Indexes: What They Are and Why You Should Have Them"Sitemaps and site indexes are forms of supplemental navigation. They give users a way to navigate a site without having to use the global navigation. By providing a way to visualize and understand the layout and structure of the site, a sitemap can help a lost or confused user find her way. Sitemaps are more widely implemented than site indexes, but both have their place and fulfill a unique information need."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, September 09, 2003
Bob Regan: Flash Accessibility Presentation
Bob Regan: Flash Accessibility Presentation"I have been working on a presentation for a few months, I keep refining it and adding examples to it. I thought it might be worth sharing with this group. I know several of you will read through it and send me comments. For that, I am eternally grateful."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 08, 2003
Technology Source: Simulations and the Learning Revolution: An Interview with Clark Aldrich
Technology Source: Simulations and the Learning Revolution: An Interview with Clark Aldrich"The good news is that the three elements of simulations -- story and graphics, interface, and complex interactive systems -- represent genuine opportunities for changing how we teach and learn. In order to make the most of their potential, designers will need to invent new, educationally oriented simulation genres. These new genres will be both similar to and different from computer game genres, in much the same way that current computer game genres are similar to and different from one another."
interface, simulation Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 08, 2003
Adaptive Path: Workshop Assets
Adaptive Path: Workshop Assets"Below you can find the tools, deliverables, and documentation templates used in Adaptive Path's workshops. Let us know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions. Enjoy!"
Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 08, 2003
One World Journeys: Expeditions
One World Journeys: ExpeditionsVisual storytelling in action, some even with lesson plans..."Experience our photo-documentary Expeditions around the world. Travel to the remote mountain forests of the former Soviet Georgia, track jaguars in Mexico, dive on pristine coral reefs, document wild salmon and wildlife of British Columbia and hang with the chimpanzees in Africa."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, September 05, 2003
HBS Working Knowledge: The Business of Education: An Interview with Derek Bok
HBS Working Knowledge: The Business of Education: An Interview with Derek Bok"Of course there are differences between producing products and teaching classes. But certainly part of the reason for the greater improvement in commercial products is the fact that professors in a university and those who administer universities are not constantly trying new methods of teaching and learning. They are not testing rigorously to see which new initiatives work better than others, discarding the ones that don't do so well and encouraging the wider use of those innovations that do seem to be effective."
innovation Add tag Permalink | Friday, September 05, 2003