Wired: Distance Learning Yet to
Wired: Distance Learning Yet to Hit HomeToday, the distance learning market continues to grow, but much of the momentum has slowed. Many e-learning startups have gone belly-up, realizing the enormous costs of launching efficacious courses online.
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, September 06, 2001
HBS Working Knowledge: Messaging: Your
HBS Working Knowledge: Messaging: Your New BuddyRecognizing that the tool is fast, easy, and offers a high-touch, real-time personal connection, businesses are starting to use IM internally (among employees) and externally (with clients and partners). But like many communication tools, IM's capacity to undermine as well as improve communication can hurt the unwary.
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Training Magazine: The Future Training
Training Magazine: The Future Training Room And as for e-learning, well, move over. Sophisticated wearable computers offer the possibility of learners taking the training room wherever they go. Fanciful? Consider the concept of retinal scanning visors, small devices that will allow training manuals, job aids and all manner of performance support, even a live link to a subject matter expert, to be called up right in front of our eyes.Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, September 05, 2001
Yahoo!: British Schools Flocking to
Yahoo!: British Schools Flocking to the InternetBritish schools are flocking to the Internet and gearing up to let their pupils surf the web in droves, according to a government report published on Tuesday. The report said 96 percent of British primary schools were now connected to the net -- up from just 17 percent in 1998.
school Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, September 05, 2001
Guardian Unlimited: Women’s university to
Guardian Unlimited: Women's university to offer online coursesA university in South Korea will next month launch the country's first international cyberuniversity, offering online courses for women.
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The Chronicle: A New Online
The Chronicle: A New Online University in Indonesia Seeks to Lure Students With Relatively Low TuitionThe Indonesian Bangkit University Teledukasi, inaugurated in August, will offer both undergraduate and exclusively online graduate programs in information technology and business administration.
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KM Magazine: Reinventing HR The
KM Magazine: Reinventing HRThe connection between knowledge management and human resources is slowly growing. However, consultants predict that the future will see a sophisticated and pervasive use of KM techniques in the service of employee recruitment and retention, and the capture and dissemination of tacit knowledge.
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, September 05, 2001
BBC: Surgery on the web
BBC: Surgery on the webA new cyber medical college has been set up in the UK to educate doctors, nurses and other health professionals. From Monday, health workers anywhere in the world will be able to log-on to the internet to learn how to carry out surgical operations or the latest medical procedure.
interactives, health care Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, September 04, 2001
IT-Training: Ten pennies for e-learning
IT-Training: Ten pennies for e-learningAdd tag Permalink | Tuesday, September 04, 2001
CNET: Internet replacing libraries for
CNET: Internet replacing libraries for homeworkThanks to the Internet, research projects and other school assignments are being completed at home, on-line, replacing last-minute trips to the library, according to a study released Saturday. Seventy-one percent of middle school and high school students with Internet access said they relied on the electronic technology the most in completing a project, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
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Fastrak-Consulting: Checking out One thing
Fastrak-Consulting: Checking outOne thing that computers do really well - and with much less effort than human beings - is to run a test; a certain type of test that is, using highly-structured question formats for which answer judging, scoring and feedback can be readily automated. Because tests are not difficult to put together and deploy online - at least not at a superficial level - practically everyone does it. But what purpose do these tests really serve and do they provide us with the information we need about what students have learned?
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Darwin: Five thoughts about… online
Darwin: Five thoughts about... online communitiesAmy Jo Kim: There
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Online Learning Magazine: Closed for
Online Learning Magazine: Closed for businessTwo years ago, learning portals popped up across the Internet
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Online Learning Magazine: Land of
Online Learning Magazine: Land of ConfusionSix pieces of advice on how to evaluate a learning management system.
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news-press: Online classes catching on
news-press: Online classes catching on quicklyThe Florida Virtual School that enrolled a mere dozen students four years ago now has close to 5,000 registered and another 1,000 waiting to get in...Better technology and a better understanding of how online learning works is helping attract and keep students.
Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 03, 2001
IBM Developer Works: The Principle
IBM Developer Works: The Principle of Least AstonishmentThroughout the history of engineering, one usability principle seems to me to have risen high above all others. It's called the Principle of Least Astonishment -- the assertion that the most usable system is the one that least often leaves users astonished. Web pages violate this rule constantly, flagrantly, and in ways that produce a great deal of the ill-will that Web designers sometimes face. Web pages astonish users by hiding buttons, providing buttons that don't work, and redefining the basic visual cues that are supposed to allow users to navigate a page...
Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 03, 2001
OJR: Writing for a Global
OJR: Writing for a Global AudienceOnline writers and editors frequently talk about writing for a global audience, but in practice, most seem to make little effort to address the particular problems such a challenge presents. This victory of pragmatism over theory is understandable: after all, the vast majority of publications, whether on the Web or not, are not truly international in focus, and no new medium is going to change this fact. Still, there are some guidelines and a few easy tricks that are quick to implement to make a site more globally friendly.
writing Add tag Permalink | Saturday, September 01, 2001
The Altantic: Beyond the tech
The Altantic: Beyond the tech bubble"When the Internet boom went bust, suddenly all sorts of people knew all along that every commercial venture associated with the Internet was an act of folly. People who lacked the nerve to question the boom while it was happening were newly emboldened. It was as if the whole crowd was shouting in unison that the emperor had no clothes" -- Michael Lewis responds to James Fallows in the first round of their e-mail exchange about Lewis's new book, *Next: The Future Just Happened*.
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eWeek: IM for business takes
eWeek: IM for business takes offAnswering customer instant messages, experts say, can be less expensive than taking their phone calls
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Wired: Dot’s in a Name
Wired: Dot's in a Name No MorePublicly traded Internet companies are actively dropping the "dot-com" and "net" suffixes and prefixes they inserted in their corporate monikers at the height of the Net stock boom. Instead, they're following a trend that began in the private sector last year by picking new names less closely associated with the financially troubled new economy.
Add tag Permalink | Saturday, September 01, 2001
Wired: Wireless PCs: Not Just
Wired: Wireless PCs: Not Just for Cheats Schools are beginning to scrap hard-wired computer labs in favor of wireless laptops and handheld PCs. Public school administrators are admitting the failure of schools' ubiquitous computer labs, which some experts say have had a negligible impact on education, despite two decades of being in schools. Now schools are experimenting with wireless computing technology. Instead of taking kids to the computers, the computers are coming to the kids.Add tag Permalink | Friday, August 31, 2001
Yahoo!: Reed Elsevier to Buy
Yahoo!: Reed Elsevier to Buy Online Education CoPublishing giant Reed Elsevier added another arm to its education business on Monday with an agreement to buy U.S. online teacher training firm Classroom Connect Inc for an undisclosed sum.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, August 31, 2001
KM World: Netting knowledge via
KM World: Netting knowledge via the corporate intranetBuilding a usable knowledge database of the human assets of an organization--details about the skills and training of each person in the company and the projects to which they have contributed--is one way that forward-thinking companies are using Web technology.
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Friday, August 31, 2001
KM World: The importance of
KM World: The importance of writing badlyDavid Weinberger: Feeling constrained to write well can impede a Net conversation as well as propel it. Slowing it down may make it more deliberative but it is more likely to make it moribund. More important, a carefully written, flawless posting can imply a fixity of meaning that shunts the conversation from potentially useful courses. Writing hastily, accepting the inevitability of flaws, results in messages that implicitly say that the writer is thinking on her feet, is open to contradiction, is excited about taking the ideas to new places.
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Friday, August 31, 2001
The Chronicle: U. of Maryland
The Chronicle: U. of Maryland Will Help Uzbekistan Create a Virtual UniversityThe online university would make existing University of Maryland courses available through distance learning but would also create new courses specifically for Uzbek students.