eLearn Magazine: Designing for Learners, Designing for Users
eLearn Magazine: Designing for Learners, Designing for Users"Online courses that are designed for learners without any thought to users invariably results in frustrated students who can't figure out how to negotiate an online course. It's all very well to provide forms of interactivity, such as discussions and collaborative assignments, but if students can't understand the information architecture of the course in order to move efficiently from one section to another, then the learning activities are in vain."
information architecture Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, February 05, 2003
UIWEB: How to run a design critique
UIWEB: How to run a design critique"Unlike a brainstorming meeting, where the exclusive goal is to come up with new ideas, a critique meeting is focused on evaluating a set of existing ideas, and possibly identify future directions or changes. Instead of hoping that hallway and email discussions will lead the team in a good direction, it
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Harvard eLearning: ManageMentor Demo
Harvard eLearning: Harvard ManageMentor Plus DemosFull working demos of
- Becoming a Manager
- Coaching
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NixLog: Columbia Disaster Infographics
NixLog: Columbia Disaster Infographicsinfographics Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, February 04, 2003
Inf@Vis!: Visualising Social Interaction
Inf@Vis!: Visualising Social Interaction"But in cyberspace the social interaction is becoming more and more important and we don
interaction Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, February 04, 2003
Working Knowledge: Seven Tips for Communicating in Today’s Diverse Workplace
Working Knowledge: Seven Tips for Communicating in Today's Diverse WorkplaceImmigrants have always been an important part of the U.S. workforce, and their contribution is growing. They bring with them a wealth of knowledge and expertise that is invaluable to businesses... The challenge is to ensure that communication problems don't keep these sources of business benefit from being tapped effectively. Here are seven steps managers can take to meet that challenge.
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, February 04, 2003
Washington Technology: Report: E-Learning breaking down barriers in Africa
Washington Technology: Report: E-Learning breaking down barriers in Africa"The report, The Promise of E-Learning in Africa: The Potential for Public-Private Partnerships (pdf, 850kb), concludes that e-learning offers a flexible and cost-effective way to span Africa
Add tag Permalink | Monday, February 03, 2003
NY Times: How to Get Inside a Student’s Head
NY Times: How to Get Inside a Student's HeadSteven Pinker: "Finally, a better understanding of the mind can lead to setting new priorities as to what is taught. The goal of education should be to provide students with new cognitive tools for grasping the world. Observers from our best scientists to Jay Leno are appalled by the scientific illiteracy of typical Americans. This obliviousness leads people to squander their health on medical flimflam and to misunderstand the strengths and weaknesses of a market economy in their political choices."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, February 03, 2003
elearnspace: Content Management: Our Organized Future
elearnspace: Content Management: Our Organized Future"New technologies/concepts have two potential impacts: a completely new way of doing things, or an improved way of doing what is already happening. Managing content with technology falls into the latter category, but is unfortunately marketed in the former. The "new thing" is the rapid growth of digital resources...improving organization with technology is only an improvement of existing practices of libraries and information architects."
content management Add tag Permalink | Monday, February 03, 2003
MIT Tech Review: Science Fiction and Smart Mobs
Cool Resource: Contentology"Contentology
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CNet: Blogs open doors for developers
CNet: Blogs open doors for developers"But a growing array of big-name software developers are finding they can make better software if they leave the doors open, by sharing information with potential customers from the start and incorporating their feedback into development decisions. While developers of games software have used this method for years, business software makers are now also catching on."
blogging Add tag Permalink | Monday, February 03, 2003
Knowledgeboard: Playing with the past
Knowledgeboard: Playing with the past"One way to cope with the changing supply and demand of good solutions is to participate in a best practice knowledge base, in which both input (research data, examples, knowledge) and output (solutions, answers, lessons learned, advise) are flexible and instantly retrievable. Surely, this will not be an electronic oracle, replacing the traditional adviser. But these knowledge bases will support the hard labour of knowledge intensive management, structuring and funnelling their experiences in more flexible data flows. This article is based on a EU funded project called Best e European Practices, or BeEP, a knowledge base with best practices in ICT policy."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, January 31, 2003
Transform Magazine: Find an Answer in E-Learning
Transform Magazine: Find an Answer in E-Learning"E-learning converts aren't just saving on travel expenses; they're providing more consistent training across the organization and they're shortening the lag time employees experience between learning new skills and actually applying them on the job. Organizations are also improving productivity because study can take place in increments at convenient times that don't interfere with peak workloads."
Case studies in e-learning:
- Home Depot Gets Employees Up to Speed
- Siemens Builds a Virtual University
- Ryder Makes the Move To e-Learning
Add tag Permalink | Friday, January 31, 2003
Wired: Students Called on SMS Cheating
Wired: Students Called on SMS Cheating"he scheme worked this way: Test takers brought their cell phones into the exam with them. They used the phones to contact friends outside the classroom. The friends looked up the exam answer key that had been posted on the Internet by the professor once the test had started. Then the friends messaged the answers back to the test takers."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, January 31, 2003
Workforce: Three Stories of Self-Service Success
Workforce: Three Stories of Self-Service Success"Many medium-sized and large companies are upgrading their HR management systems, adding self-service capabilities that will forever change the roles of the HR team. Self-service puts the responsibility for many information-management tasks, such as filing change-of-address forms and completing benefits enrollment, in the hands of employees, dramatically reducing the amount of time that HR staffers spend on administrative tasks."
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, January 30, 2003
infed.org: The
infed.org: TheAdd tag Permalink | Thursday, January 30, 2003
e-learning for kids: Zap
e-learning for kids: ZapThe Zap website for children has been launched based on a research project, called the European Collaborative Environment (EUNCLE). The project brings together European Schoolnet, the coordinator, and seven other partners from all over Europe.
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, January 30, 2003
University of Minnesota: The Elements of Digital Storytelling
University of Minnesota: The Elements of Digital StorytellingThe Elements of Digital Storytelling site provides us a:
- Taxonomy of digital storytelling
- Analysis of current practices
- Clearinghouse of effects research
- Showcase of innovative story forms
- Forum for discussion
storytelling Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, January 29, 2003
WIRED: Not Your Father’s Encyclopedia
WIRED: Not Your Father's EncyclopediaLast week, the English-language version of Wikipedia, a free multilingual encyclopedia created entirely by volunteers on the Internet, published its 100,000th article. More than 37,000 articles populate the non-English editions.
Unlike traditional encyclopedias, which are written and edited by professionals, Wikipedia is the result of work by thousands of volunteers. Anyone can contribute an article -- or edit an existing one -- at any time.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, January 29, 2003
SRI-BI: Survey on Quality and Effectiveness in eLearning
SRI-BI: Survey on Quality and Effectiveness in eLearningThe following survey seeks to uncover views on factors influencing quality and effectiveness in corporate eLearning implementations. Results of the survey will be published in ASTD's Learning Circuits Webzine and other venues. Respondents who provide their e-mail addresses at the end of this form will also be sent survey results by e-mail.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, January 29, 2003
Strategy+Business: The Internal Impact of External Branding
Strategy+Business: The Internal Impact of External Branding"Indeed, for the many companies attempting to make the shift from selling lower-margin goods and services to offering higher-margin customized solutions, branding can serve a powerful internal purpose. When we were faced with this very challenge, our branding strategy was critical in uniting formerly divided business-unit and product-oriented management factions behind new shared goals and strategies to deliver solutions."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, January 28, 2003
The Chronicle: The Virtual Lab Experiment
The Chronicle: The Virtual Lab Experiment"Only a few years ago, professors saw no way to offer hard-science labs at a distance. But now a handful of institutions around the country have begun experimenting with the idea. Through computer animation and creative adaptation, students are able to do such things as conduct biology research online or perform chemistry experiments in their kitchens. And some college officials say the labs are rigorous enough that students who take them can earn college credit."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, January 28, 2003
National Post: Study says boys do read, they just don’t read books
National Post: Study says boys do read, they just don't read books"Teachers should allow boys to bring Pok
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Leader to Leader Institute: Innovation as a Deep Capability
Leader to Leader Institute: Innovation as a Deep CapabilityGary Hamel: There are two core challenges to making innovation a deep capability in any organization. First, most companies have a very narrow idea of innovation, usually focusing just on products and services. We need to enlarge our view of innovation. Second, most companies devote much more energy to optimizing what is there than to imagining what could be. We need to create constituencies for "What Could Be."
innovation Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, January 28, 2003
Learning Circuits: What Works
Learning Circuits: What Works"According to the study results, some types of content are more suitable for online delivery, while other content areas are more effective when delivered through classroom instruction. The training professionals who participated in the study described a variety of learning situations in which e-learning is a more effective way to deliver training than classroom instruction..."
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Monday, January 27, 2003