University of Waterloo: About Learning Objects
University of Waterloo: About Learning Objects"Currently, there are so many questions floating around about learning objects. Fortunately, and unfortunately, the recent attention being paid to learning objects means there is a lot of discussion, but very little agreement around the details and dynamics of learning objects... In this site, you will find information on learning objects. The purpose is to provide a look at the different definitions, the current state of standards, and other happenings in the area of learning objects."
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, May 07, 2003
Syllabus: And Now for Something Completely Different
Syllabus: And Now for Something Completely Different"I want to give you an update on one of the most critical issues of our time in technology and copyright, the move toward local legislation to regulate information exchange on the Internet. In addition, I want to feature two trends that you are likely to encounter sooner rather than later: browsers appearing in places other than computers, and the buzz word of the new century
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, May 07, 2003
Edge: Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions?
Edge: Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions?Jared Diamond: "First of all, a group may fail to anticipate a problem before the problem actually arrives. Secondly, when the problem arrives, the group may fail to perceive the problem. Then, after they perceive the problem, they may fail even to try to solve the problem. Finally, they may try to solve it but may fail in their attempts to do so. While all this talking about reasons for failure and collapses of society may seem pessimistic, the flip side is optimistic: namely, successful decision-making. Perhaps if we understand the reasons why groups make bad decisions, we can use that knowledge as a check list to help groups make good decisions."
decision-making Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, May 07, 2003
KM World: Knowledge Newspeak
KM World: Knowledge Newspeak"Getting the balance between clarity and ambiguity right is essential for a KM system. Being ambiguous where clarity is required can be dangerous as well as wasteful. But being clear where ambiguity is requisite kills creativity and, in many instances, is motivated by a fear of losing control..."
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, May 06, 2003
ISKME: Knowledge Management in Education: Defining the Landscape
ISKME: Knowledge Management in Education: Defining the Landscape"This monograph describes the opportunities and challenges faced by those working to improve the use and sharing of information in education through practices that have come to be known as knowledge management."
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, May 06, 2003
StepTwo: e is the knowledge in a content management system?
StepTwo: Where is the knowledge in a content management system?"The knowledge in a content management system is not the words on the page. Instead, the knowledge is gained via the processes and opportunities used to capture organisational knowledge. This is further enhanced via the CMS's ability to support knowledge discovery, via the use of metadata, and deployment of effective navigation."
content management Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, May 06, 2003
Headshift: Smarter, Simpler, Social
Headshift: Smarter, Simpler, Social"This paper aims to provide an overview of what is being called 'social software' or 'online social applications', tracing their roots in online community thinking and identifying some of their underlying features. It will also examine some of the emerging perspectives on social networks and online behaviour that might help us understand how to develop better online social applications, and it will suggest a methodology for creating meaningful online social applications around existing social networks and stakeholders."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, May 05, 2003
Digital Web: The Ideal Web Team
Digital Web: The Ideal Web Team"So the ideal Web team consists of a maximum of seven people, all specialists in their own field, who are willing to listen to each other, to defer to each other
Add tag Permalink | Monday, May 05, 2003
NY Times: Making Intelligence a Bit Less Artificial
NY Times: Making Intelligence a Bit Less Artificial" To improve the recommendations, many software developers are doing an about-face from the mid-1990's, when they put their energy into getting computers to do all the work. Today they say that automated programs that look for patterns in customer data are not smart enough to detect a gaffe. Something more sophisticated is required: the human mind."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, May 05, 2003
Darwin: By The Dashboard Light
Darwin: By The Dashboard Light"Companies have yet to fully appreciate the power the intranet holds in reshaping the organization. The interactive capability of intranet technology enables it to be more than simply a virtual warehouse for static and disconnected corporate information. When used to their full potential, intranets can enhance group collaboration, focus efforts on critical issues, manage change and reduce information overload."
intranets Add tag Permalink | Friday, May 02, 2003
Business 2.0: Don’t Believe the Hype About Strategy
Business 2.0: Don't Believe the Hype About Strategy"Ideo, winner of numerous design awards, takes do-what-works-now strategy as gospel. The product-development firm operates on the principle that enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects. In other words, instead of sitting in meetings and producing fancy PowerPoint demonstrations, develop your strategy by using your company's best thinking at the time, learning, refining, and trying again. Under almost all conditions, fast learners are going to outperform even the most brilliant planners."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, May 02, 2003
The Technology Source: Pedagogical Advantages of Ubiquitous Computing in a Wireless Environment
The Technology Source: Pedagogical Advantages of Ubiquitous Computing in a Wireless Environment"In the wireless project at MSU, the five participants applied their prior knowledge and skills to a new situation
Add tag Permalink | Friday, May 02, 2003
Webby Awards: Nominees 2003
Webby Awards: Nominees 2003"The below list reflects the five best Web sites in 30 categories for 2003 as selected by members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. These nominees exemplify the very best that the internet has to offer..."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, May 02, 2003
InfoVis: Conceptual Presentations
InfoVis: Conceptual Presentations"Presentations are becoming increasingly visual and less textual. Converting every concept into an image is the challenge and, at the same time, the solution... it can make the difference between delivering the message or showering the audience with difficult to assimilate words."
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Intranet Journal: KM and Intranets: Putting People First
Intranet Journal: KM and Intranets: Putting People First"Experience shows that employees use an intranet primarily because it is of substantial benefit to them and helps them perform their jobs better, not because of its sheer availability or a company-dictated policy... Success depends on an ongoing process that has as much to do with people management as it does with the availability of an appropriate information-technology infrastructure."
knowledge management, intranets Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Elearn Magazine: Hot on the Trail of an E-Learning Career
Elearn Magazine: Hot on the Trail of an E-Learning Career"There are jobs, although there's no denying the good ones are far from plentiful. Here's a quick look at some of the more available jobs in the e-learning field..."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Don Morrison: The Search for the Holy Recipe
Don Morrison: The Search for the Holy Recipe"I'll come clean. I hate the term 'blended learning'. I'm not alone. A number of people including several e-learning luminaries have shared their dirty little secret with me. I can't help reading 'blended learning' as 'we can
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Harvard Working Knowledge: Take the Fat Out of Your Writing
Harvard Working Knowledge: Take the Fat Out of Your Writing"Clarity is far and away the most important attribute of tight writing. For if the purpose of writing is to communicate a particular message, then no matter how concise your writing, how impeccable your spelling and grammar, how interesting your topic
writing Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, April 29, 2003
KM Magazine: Stealth KM
KM Magazine: Stealth KM"No company is going to allocate dedicated resources to knowledge management unless there is a real rather than perceived need. To convince senior management and refractory Boards that there is a need, and that you have the answer, is a function of talking in their terms -- and that means lightening up on the jargon, folding it in with organizational development [strategic planning] and emphasizing the deliverables. Think of them as customers, or end users -- spouting off about ontology, learning organizations, conversing companies, narrative repositories and communities of practice makes their eyes glaze over, their ears close and their cognitive systems to shut down."
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Monday, April 28, 2003
Stanford Business Magazine: Priming the Pump for Better Classroom Performance
Stanford Business Magazine: Priming the Pump for Better Classroom Performance"The Aplia system offers problem sets and other homework that can be machine-graded, and it supplies results back to the students and professor before the next class begins. The professor doesn't have to waste as much class time going over material that students were supposed to read before class because now she can measure whether they actually read it. We are trying to remove the drudgery for the professor so he or she can have a more active, open, free-flowing classroom that in the process gets us out of that deadening lecture mode."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, April 28, 2003
El Mundo: Interactives Gallery
El Mundo: Interactives GallerySome real cool stuff here.
interactives Add tag Permalink | Monday, April 28, 2003
Sam Adkins: Workflow-based E-learning
Sam Adkins: Workflow-based E-learning"Employees in the field and on the job do not have the time, the place or the inclination to 'take' conventional elearning. Conventional elearning formats are inappropriate for their needs. New, highly innovative, and effective augmented reality and mobile performance products are emerging that map directly to their contextual performance needs."
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Add tag Permalink | Friday, April 25, 2003
e-learning Guru: E-learning Business Translator
e-learning Guru: E-learning Business TranslatorYou have to watch this. It's very neat! Thanks Kevin.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, April 25, 2003
Wired: Futurist Fears End of Innovation
Wired: Futurist Fears End of Innovation"Rheingold warned that attempts to stifle innovation would have dire consequences. He reminded the audience that Unix, the Internet and the Web were all open systems built collectively, by collaborating parties. If the government or big corporations had been charged with building the Web, they'd still be struggling with it in our grandchildren's lifetimes, he said."
innovation Add tag Permalink | Friday, April 25, 2003
MSNBC: Interactives
MSNBC: Interactives- Some cool ones here. Check out A wireless home of the future.
interactives Add tag Permalink | Thursday, April 24, 2003