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SF Gate: Leaping ahead of

SF Gate: Leaping ahead of the competition: Some big stars in the Knowledge Universe
What do ex-junk bond king Michael Milken, Oracle Corp.'s flamboyant Chairman Larry Ellison and former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz have in common?... All three are involved with Knowledge Universe, a low-profile Menlo Park company that intends to boost education not just for kids, but also for adults and corporations.

Permalink | Monday, August 13, 2001

Fast Company: How the PC

Fast Company: How the PC Really Got Started
The personal computer celebrates its 20th birthday this month. At a gala party in Silicon Valley, the PC's original developers, including Bill Gates and Andy Grove, swapped tales of those wild and wacky days on the frontier of the computer revolution.

Permalink | Monday, August 13, 2001

Berkeley Computing & Communications: Weblogging:

Berkeley Computing & Communications: Weblogging: Another kind of website
Lloyd Nebres works for UC Berkeley's Academic Talent Development Program. For several years he has taught a summer course for high school students called The Internet Classroom... For his summer 2000 course Lloyd decided to introduce weblogging using Userland's Editthispage as weblog host. Little did Lloyd know that this would turn into a thriving community of 20-some regularly blogging high school students beyond the summer and throughout the past school year, with students introducing other friends to blogging, gradually leading to the involvement of peers, relatives, siblings, friends, and other adults. Since May 2000 Lloyd has flipped his blog daily, referring to and commenting on student blogs, posing questions and writing prompts, weaving together themes from various weblogs, and carefully pushing and pulling at the students to foster critical thinking and thoughtful writing.

Permalink | Saturday, August 11, 2001

TechTV: Top Five Tips for

TechTV: Top Five Tips for Online Community
Got a website? Thinking of adding community features such as Web boards and chat rooms to let your users talk back? Here are a few tips for happy community building online from Derek Powazek, whose book on the subject, Design for Community, comes out on August 15.

Permalink | Saturday, August 11, 2001

Chicago Tribune: E-books solving a

Chicago Tribune: E-books solving a problem consumers don't have
The publishing world's attempts to turn electronic fiction and non-fiction into a lucrative revenue stream have yielded only a trickle of customers. Flaccid sales aside, publishers face even bigger challenges. Digitizing the printed page has put the very nature of books up for grabs, unleashing heated battles among writers, readers, librarians and technologists over who should control electronic books.

Permalink | Saturday, August 11, 2001

New Scientist: New language could

New Scientist: New language could speed up the web
The new language is Curl. Its creators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claim that the fledgling technology can speed up the delivery of applications over the web by up to 10 times. It is said to combine the simplicity of web typesetting tools such as HTML with complex web programming languages such as Java.

Permalink | Saturday, August 11, 2001

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Resource: e-learningjobs.com
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Permalink | Saturday, August 11, 2001

eLearn Magazine: The Global Gamble

eLearn Magazine: The Global Gamble
When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced in April that it plans to place materials for all its courses online at no cost, many were puzzled. At a time when most colleges and universities are trying to figure out how to make money on the Web—and when intellectual property concerns reign—why on earth would MIT give the goods away?

Permalink | Friday, August 10, 2001

eLearn Magazine: Back to the

eLearn Magazine: Back to the Future: What’s Next After Learning Objects
But learning objects only allow for one-way transmission of knowledge–from instructor to learner. They are built on the premise that somebody high up on the corporate food chain knows more than the workers do. These days, organizations are slowly realizing that this premise is false. As business conditions change at an ever-accelerating pace, the front-line workers are increasingly the ones who see the changes coming and figure out how to deal with them first. The entire industry of knowledge management was born out of this realization, and it is growing fast. Yet at the very moment when organizations are realizing that they have to learn from their workers, training departments shutting down one major potential avenue for knowledge to flow upward by taking all social interaction out of their educational programs.

Permalink | Friday, August 10, 2001

Fortune: Cool Supplies Attention, class.

Fortune: Cool Supplies
Attention, class. School hasn't even started yet, and already you have to answer some tough questions when it comes to technology. Yes, you need a computer at college, but which one? Windows or Macintosh? Desktop or laptop? Do you scrimp on the budget, knowing the low-end machine will almost certainly flunk out before graduation, or spend more for a machine in the hope that it won't be the class clown four years from now? And what other gizmos do you need in the dorm room? On the following pages we've created a cheat sheet of cool gadgets--a mix of electives and requirements--that can make campus life more productive and fun, not necessarily in that order.

Permalink | Friday, August 10, 2001

SiliconValley.com: Revisiting isolation and its

SiliconValley.com: Revisiting isolation and its link to the Internet
Back in 1998, Robert Kraut, a professor of social psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, released a study, HomeNet, that found the Net was dangerous to one's social and psychological well-being... Now, Kraut and colleagues are back with another report, Internet Paradox Revisited, due to be published next spring in the Journal of Social Issues. In re-interviewing the subjects of the first study, the researchers found depression significantly declined with Internet use and social isolation was not associated with high Internet use.

Permalink | Friday, August 10, 2001

The Chronicle: Australia Will Spend

The Chronicle: Australia Will Spend $100-Million on Distance Programs for Developing Countries
Tens of thousands of teachers, students, and officials in developing countries will receive training in specific skills over the Internet, becoming "virtual students" in Australian universities. Younger students will undertake Net-based school programs devised in Australia.

Permalink | Thursday, August 09, 2001

Chicago Tribune: Internet provides academic

Chicago Tribune: Internet provides academic alternatives
Grayslake man earns PhD online -- Knott enrolled at Capella, paying up to $12,000 a year in tuition to take business administration courses. He finished his doctorate program in November, becoming one of 400 graduates from the school in its seven-year history.

Permalink | Thursday, August 09, 2001

KM World: Teach your staffers

KM World: Teach your staffers well
Canada’s oldest corporation is using some new technology to provide its more than 70,000 employees with online training. Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), founded in 1670, has become the first customer of the Bell e-Learning Center.

Permalink | Thursday, August 09, 2001

Transform Magazine: Web Content: How

Transform Magazine: Web Content: How to Get it Right
Content management systems have universally attacked the problem of "webmaster bottleneck" by moving Web content creation and publication responsibilities from the Web team to content creators themselves. Unless businesses that implement Web content management systems are careful, however, this new workflow can create its own problems.

Permalink | Thursday, August 09, 2001

Fast Company: The Next Revolution

Fast Company: The Next Revolution
The children of the Internet, Lewis discovered, have embraced the technology in a way their parents cannot grasp and have used it to do things their elders can't even envision. In the process, they are spurring change and innovation at an evermore rapid clip and are wreaking havoc on social systems as they go -- Q&A with Michael Lewis, author of Next: The Future Just Happened.

Permalink | Thursday, August 09, 2001

Internet.com: Yahoo! Education Opens Virtual

Internet.com: Yahoo! Education Opens Virtual Classrooms
With the new school year is poised to begin, Yahoo! Tuesday launched a new free resource portal for college, high school and middle school teachers and students...The site includes ways for instructors to post class rosters, calendars, and syllabi, and contact students through private classroom message boards and e-mail.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 08, 2001

The Chronicle: UNext Seeks to

The Chronicle: UNext Seeks to Restructure Its Relationships With Universities
Several sources familiar with the distance-learning market have speculated that UNext will try to get its academic partners to reduce the amount of money UNext has guaranteed to pay them. Although the deals are confidential, the payments have been widely reported to be worth about $20-million for each partner, over a number of years.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 08, 2001

First Monday: Technology, Schools and

First Monday: Technology, Schools and the Decentralization of Culture
Most analyses of culture and technology have been fascinated, even transfixed, by all the wonderful things that can be created and shared using digital tools. Rarely have these cultural analyses explored the issue of how such technological tools are going to impact how individuals interact and organize around cultural content that is fluid and contested. This is particularly problematic for schools as technological tools allow students to reject, share and contest the fixed content that has historically been disseminated through a narrow range of books and pedagogical strategies. This paper seeks to develop a theoretical model of culture that can account for change in what was, and still is, considered by many social scientists to be impermeable structural boundaries. By conceptualizing technology as a symbolic tool, it is hoped that the model of culture developed in this paper can begin to explain how social relations in institutions such as schools can change in a manner that will upset existing hierarchical social relations.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 08, 2001

New Media: It’s The Content

New Media: It's The Content Management, Stupid
It's remarkable that given how much we know about library science, and how available digital asset management systems are, that most companies continue to store their content in scattered folders or on local hard disks with no catalog system...A combination of good process decisions and strong software to support and automate parts of the process can save even mid-sized companies thousands of dollars a day.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 08, 2001

Learning Circuits: Executive Summary: A

Learning Circuits: Executive Summary: A Vision of E-Learning for America's Workforce
Recent technological advances have laid the foundation for a learning revolution that will clearly take place in the years ahead. The Commission on Technology and Adult Learning believes that e-learning will play a vitally important role in equipping workers with the skills they need to succeed in the 21st-century digital economy. Here are its recommendations.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 07, 2001

Learning Circuits: Strategic Plans from

Learning Circuits: Strategic Plans from Scratch
A strategic plan helps organizations address those issues. Unfortunately, strategic plans are uncommon among many training departments. Here's some help writing a basic plan.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 07, 2001

MemphisBusinessJournal: Access: Distance learning brings

MemphisBusinessJournal: Access: Distance learning brings campus to those with limited time
Students from Bolivia, Turkey and Germantown will come together for college classes this fall at the University of Memphis, which is nothing unusual -- except that when class is over, they'll switch off their computers and go back to their regular lives in Bolivia, Turkey and Germantown.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 07, 2001

Useit.com: First Rule of Usability?

Useit.com: First Rule of Usability? Don't Listen to Users
To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

Permalink | Tuesday, August 07, 2001

WR Hambrecht + Co:

WR Hambrecht + Co: Industry Update: Another Strong Quarter for e-Learning We review last week’s activity in the e-learning sector including earnings reports from Docent, WebEx, Vcampus, eCollege, Scientific Learning, among others. Recent events and deals in the sector are highlighted as well.

Permalink | Monday, August 06, 2001

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