Cool Stuff: Flash Film Festival 2003 San Francisco
Cool Stuff: Flash Film Festival 2003 San Francisco- Some fantastic Flash stuff from these 60 finalists.
Add tag Permalink | Monday, March 10, 2003
CETIS: Saba donates free SCORM testing tool to community
CETIS: Saba donates free SCORM testing tool to community"Actually, the SCORM Detective tool is, like many learning objects, an SCO. But it's one with a difference: it can be used to test the overall SCORM conformance of a particular VLE, but also to see what a wonky or special SCO will do in such a VLE. And it still is a very good learning object in its own right: it shows you in graphic detail how the SCORM APIs work with the SCORM data model in real time in an actual VLE."
community Add tag Permalink | Monday, March 10, 2003
Training Magazine: Flexible Learning Objects
Training Magazine: Flexible Learning Objects"A mobile device could be used to support working through a task, whether localized or in motion. For instance, mobile devices are already being used to support maintenance and trouble-shooting inside armored vehicles. The support, however, could move from just task support to provide task-based learning as well. A repairman might bring a PDA inside the access panel in a complex device and get training on the alignment procedure on this revision of the assembly."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, March 10, 2003
Cooper: Design Research: Why you need it
Cooper: Design Research: Why you need it"The problem is not with the market research, which is a necessary first step to rolling out a new product. Rather, the culprit is an absence of a true understanding of the people who will ultimately use the product. Just as important as market research, design research is a necessary ingredient for creating, developing, and delivering a successful product. Marketers need solid market research to guide their decisions about product positioning, revenue potential, and target markets. Likewise, designers need solid design research to guide their decisions about the product's interaction framework, feature set, and overall appropriateness for its users."
research Add tag Permalink | Monday, March 10, 2003
Chief Learning Officer: Toward a Smarter Organization
Chief Learning Officer: Toward a Smarter Organization"A comprehensive approach to learning with an emphasis on productivity should include specific elements to address all professional development aspects for a workforce. We refer to the model as a productivity pyramid, which includes e-communication, e-training and e-assessment. Collectively, these three components nurture a system that allows organizational competence and workforce output to be measured and enhanced."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, March 07, 2003
Chief Learning Officer: Learning in the Large Enterprise: Centralized vs. Decentralized
Chief Learning Officer: Learning in the Large Enterprise: Centralized vs. Decentralized"Organizations looking toward implementing or revitalizing an effective learning management and human capital development operation will do well to take a hard look at this phenomenon. Vacillation between centralization and decentralization is both non-productive and unnecessary. Once an organization
Add tag Permalink | Friday, March 07, 2003
IT&Society: Web Navigation Issue
IT&Society: Web Navigation Issue"The amazing wealth of information and profusion of services available on the Internet are only useful when people can access them successfully. Unsophisticated and erratic search strategies make it hard to find desired services, and poor site designs confuse users. Therefore expanded research on diverse aspects of Web navigation is welcome: innovative approaches to designing Web sites for improved navigation, streamlined browser design to facilitate Web navigation, better training methods, and enhanced customer support. Information architects, Internet service providers, browser designers, Web designers, Webmasters and Web programming tool developers all have a role to play in making the Web easier to use."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, March 07, 2003
Macromedia: Breeze
Macromedia: Breeze"Macromedia Breeze solutions enable organizations to quickly provide customers, partners, and employees with consistent, just-in-time education and training. With Macromedia Breeze solutions, you can now educate, train, and inform in minutes, not months."
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, March 06, 2003
Business 2.0: Nag-O-Matic
Business 2.0: Nag-O-Matic"Captology is the science of using technology to modify behavior... But the most interesting application of captology techniques I've seen comes from Nubella, a health and nutrition startup. Nubella's product works with grocery store bar-code scanners. When a customer scans his supermarket club card, Nubella compares purchase data with a database of recommended daily nutritional intake. The system then mails out coupons to encourage customers to fill the gaps in their diet. If I'm not getting enough selenium, for example, I might receive a coupon to save half a buck on a can of Brazil nuts."
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, March 06, 2003
Metamodel: What are the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and
Metamodel: What are the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model?"This excellent overview was contributed by Woody Pidcock of the Boeing company. Many organizations and companies are struggling with these terms and the ideas behind them; this set of definitions will help to clarify."
taxonomy Add tag Permalink | Thursday, March 06, 2003
Marketing Profs: How To Run Customer Focus Groups Successfully
Marketing Profs: How To Run Customer Focus Groups SuccessfullyA focus group is a face-to-face meeting with a sampling of your users aimed at helping you learn more about who they are and what they need from you. Just as importantly, it gives them an opportunity to find out more about you... Focus groups can work wonders towards helping you create realistic, customer-centered plans and strategies. They are also a powerful tool for building stronger, more profitable relationships with your best customers.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, March 05, 2003
Workforce: At Google, the Proof Is in the People
Workforce: At Google, the Proof Is in the PeopleWhat
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, March 05, 2003
Gallery of Data Visualization: The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics
Gallery of Data Visualization: The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics- Like good writing, good graphical displays of data communicate ideas with clarity, precision, and efficiency.
- Like poor writing, bad graphical displays distort or obscure the data, make it harder to understand or compare, or otherwise thwart the communicative effect which the graph should convey.
visualization Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, March 05, 2003
elearningpost: 10 Damaging e-learning Myths
elearningpost: 10 Damaging E-learning Myths"The current economic climate isn
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Fortune: Looking for Intelligence in Ice Cream
Fortune: Looking for Intelligence in Ice Cream"Ben & Jerry's may cultivate a down-home image, but as a unit of $47-billion-a-year Unilever, it depends just as heavily on the stats for its success. And to get those figures, it relies on so-called business intelligence, or BI, software: a plain-vanilla name for programs that crunch huge quantities of data in search of trends, problems, or new business opportunities."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Joel on Software: Building Communities with Software
Joel on Software: Building Communities with Software"In software, as in architecture, design decisions are just as important to the type of community that develops or fails to develop. When you make something easy, people do it more often. When you make something hard, people do it less often. In this way you can gently encourage people to behave in certain ways which determine the character and quality of the community. Will it feel friendly? Is there thick conversation, a European salon full of intellectuals with interesting ideas? Or is the place deserted, with a few dirty advertising leaflets lying around on the floor that nobody has bothered to pick up?"
community Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Useit: Persuasive Design: New Captology Book
Useit: Persuasive Design: New Captology Book"Persuasion in itself is obviously not new. From Cicero's oratory to modern TV commercials, communicators have tried to persuade audiences. What's different is that websites and other computerized designs are going beyond one-way rhetoric and becoming interactive. For most people, doing something is much more engaging and thus potentially more compelling and persuasive than passively receiving messages."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Technology Source: A Model for Effectively Supporting e-Learning
Technology Source: A Model for Effectively Supporting e-Learning"In this article, we discuss three interrelated segments necessary for connecting educational programs and content to the support services essential for student (and faculty) success, both on campus and off: technological support, superior student services, and faculty support. Rather than highlighting any particular institutions, this article challenges the reader to consider the processes and organizational structures needed to provide student support that molds to the particular institutional culture."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, March 03, 2003
BBC: School bus offers web on the go
BBC: School bus offers web on the go"We use it to travel around the Isle of Man, bringing the big computer room experience to little primary schools"
school Add tag Permalink | Monday, March 03, 2003
Gerry McGovern: Why content management software hasn’t worked
Gerry McGovern: Why content management software hasn't worked"Content management software hasn't worked because it was badly designed and massively over-hyped. Software companies lied about their products, charging criminal prices for crap software. It hasn't worked because organizations didn't understand content. They wanted a quick fix. They issued specifications that bore little relation to what they actually needed."
content management Add tag Permalink | Monday, March 03, 2003
Joshua Kaufman: Guidelines and Design
Joshua Kaufman: Guidelines and Design"This is called design. Thinking about a problem, and thinking up answers by looking at the world around us: design. Blindly adhering to guidelines is not design. Looking at guidelines and comparing them to the world and deciding if they are applicable to your unique situation: design."
Comment: This concept desperately needs to be accepted and adopted in instructional design. Right now, e-learning instructional design practice seems to be suffering from a heavy guideline-overdose.
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 28, 2003
KM Magazine: The power of people
KM Magazine: The power of people"While collaborating and sharing what we know and have learnt is important, sharing and learning needs to be done around a defined topic or within an established context; otherwise, we are left with valuable information but no knowledge or understanding of how, when and why we should apply it... To be sustainable and deliver ongoing value, it
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 28, 2003
OpenSourceCMS: Try before you install
OpenSourceCMS: Try before you install"This site was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any site here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 28, 2003
Journal of Distance Education: Insights into the Nature of Online Community
Journal of Distance Education: Insights into the Nature of Online Community"The reciprocal relationship between participation in online learning activities and the evolution of community centered the online course. Which came first? I suggest that participation in online learning activities exists before community, that it contributes to community, that it is the vehicle for maintaining community, and that it eventually becomes the measure of the health of community."
community Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 27, 2003
KM World: Knowledge on the run: Sales reps, suppliers and customers need mobile access to KM
KM World: Knowledge on the run: Sales reps, suppliers and customers need mobile access to KM"One of the key issues in field service has been the ability to provide mobile reps with information about what has occurred on previous calls. Integrating mobile solutions with enterprise knowledgebases enables the rep to access information on the history of the account..."
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 27, 2003