Technology Source: Knowledge Environment for Web-based Learning (KEWL)
Technology Source: Knowledge "Environment for Web-based Learning (KEWL)The Knowledge Environment for Web-based Learning (KEWL) was developed at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) to facilitate research into online learning... KEWL has been made available at no cost under an open source license (GNU Public License). KEWL is suitable for use in any online learning situation, including in school, corporate training, and higher education."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, January 06, 2003
Technology Source: The Bazaar Online Conference System: Athabasca University’s Alternative to Propri
Technology Source: The Bazaar Online Conference System"Athabasca University has developed the Bazaar Online Conference System, an online course management and conferencing system that is free and high-quality. Inspired in part by the open source movement, which presses for free and accessible software on the Internet, Bazaar's features include many useful and important resources typically offered by the more popular and expensive proprietary systems."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, January 06, 2003
HOT Labs: Usability Testing: Myths, Misconceptions and Misuses
HOT Labs: Usability Testing: Myths, Misconceptions and Misuses"The idea behind usability testing is to have people perform the tasks for which the product was designed. If they can't do the tasks or if they have difficulty performing the tasks, the UI is not adequate and should be redesigned. Confusion can be avoided if we use usability evaluation for the generic term and reserve usability testing for the specific evaluation method based on user performance."
usability Add tag Permalink | Monday, January 06, 2003
Computer World: Costs negate e-learning ROI
Computer World: Costs negate e-learning ROI"Per-seat licensing of e-learning applications remains a bone of contention between customers and vendors... you don't know if every single potential end user is going to use the system or whether they might use just a portion of it."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, January 03, 2003
CRM: Recipe for Success
CRM: Recipe for Success"Start with a dash of one-to-one instruction. Add a pinch of online training. Sprinkle with the facts from a knowledge base. Cook at a moderate level, stirring occasionally, and voila, the right blend of face-to-face training and e-learning technologies makes a deliciously winning combination."
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Friday, January 03, 2003
P2P: In-Room Chat as a Social Tool
P2P: In-Room Chat as a Social Tool"The in-room chat created a two-channel experience -- a live conversation in the room, and an overlapping real-time text conversation. The experiment was a strong net positive for the group. Most social software is designed as a replacement for face-to-face meetings, but the spread of permanet (connectivity like air) provides opportunities for social software to be used by groups who are already gathered in the same location."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, January 03, 2003
Technical Standards: Worst Manual Awards 2002
Technical Standards: Worst Manual Awards 2002Entries may include, but are not limited to:
- Stupid instructions
- Left-out steps
- Made-up words
- Spelling errors
- Bad grammar
- Poor translations
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Friday, January 03, 2003
Holiday Notice
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all elearningpost readers.Here's wishing you the very best of happy and peaceful times ahead!
- elearningpost will resume Jan 3rd.
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, December 24, 2002
Fast Company: Can Philips Learn to Walk the Talk?
Fast Company: Can Philips Learn to Walk the Talk?"...[S]trategic conversations for each theme begin by gathering together everyone who has a contribution to make -- regardless of rank -- for a one-day summit. Attendees exchange views, debate scenarios, and, ultimately, agree on strategies and road maps for key projects."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 23, 2002
Tactix: Back to basics - e-learning in 2003
Tactix: Back to basics - e-learning in 2003"...We have only just started to see the true potential for information and communication technology in education and training but that, by getting back to basics and doing the simple things well, we can still expect to see powerful results in the short term."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 23, 2002
ClickZ: Skimming and Scanning
ClickZ: Skimming and Scanning- Scan: To look over quickly and systematically; to look over or leaf through hastily
- Skim: To give a quick and superficial reading, scrutiny, or consideration; glance
Can you see though the two are similar, they're not quite the same? Both scanning and skimming are information-gathering activities. People perform them quickly, usually without thinking much. But they don't work the same way, and they don't serve the same purpose.
Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 23, 2002
IT Training: Here’s a learning curve we all need to jump on
IT Training: Here's a learning curve we all need to jump onApplication of Gartner's Credibility Curve--used to measure a department's credibility--to the training department.
- Uncertainty: the department is inconsistent and unknown;
- Scepticism: it becomes more consistent, but users still don
Add tag Permalink | Friday, December 20, 2002
Digital Web Magazine: Navigation Complex
Digital Web Magazine: Navigation Complex"Linear navigation typically contains Previous, Next, and Index links and nothing more. Since it
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, December 19, 2002
Boxes and Arrows: What Is A Controlled Vocabulary?
Boxes and Arrows: What Is A Controlled Vocabulary?"The most basic, and often overlooked form, of controlled vocabulary is a consistent labeling system. If you are careful to call the same thing, or the same concept, by the same name everywhere on your site, you are using a very simple controlled vocabulary. And you're also ensuring that your users start developing a mental model of the information they can find."
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, December 19, 2002
eLearn Magazine: Talk to Me
eLearn Magazine: Talk to Me"I heard some tales of great experiences with these online courses, despite the off-hours. The common thread in all these stories was the presence of discussion, synchronously or asynchronously. And the people taking the courses after hours didn
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, December 18, 2002
HBS Working Knowledge: Moving Beyond the Classroom With Executive Education
HBS Working Knowledge: Moving Beyond the Classroom With Executive Education"In April, Harvard Business School professor Dorothy Leonard brought leading experts on education together at the Adult Learning Workshop to answer this fundamental question: To what extent should the traditional face-to-face classroom experience serve as the model for online programs? Participants included MIT Senior Lecturer Peter Senge, a Founding Chair of the Society for Organizational Learning; John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation; and Chris Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.
Using materials from the workshop and an interview and working papers provided by Leonard, this report explores issues such as mentoring, coaching, distance learning and other components confronting the modern learning organization."
innovation, organizational learning Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, December 18, 2002
HBS Working Knowledge: Making Work-at-Home Work for Everyone
HBS Working Knowledge: Making Work-at-Home Work for Everyone"But this rearrangement of the conventional office comes at a cost: It breaks up the informal social network of work
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, December 18, 2002
Creative Commons: Rice University’s Connexions
Creative Commons: Rice University's Connexions"When it's up and running, Connexions will offer an online library of networked content that will allow instructors to pick and choose best-of-breed instructional materials. Experts around the world will develop and contribute modules of information specific to their own expertise. These modules
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, December 17, 2002
Cool Design: Tofte Project
Cool Design: Tofte ProjectVery nice use of Flash to embody a story:
"This immersive tour will allow you to discover the principles of sustainable architecture through exploration of the cabin's design and construction, as well as take an in-depth look at its natural surroundings."
interesting Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, December 17, 2002
Wired: Creative Types: A Lot in Common
Wired: Creative Types: A Lot in Common"On Monday, Creative Commons will release its collection of free, machine-readable licenses. The idea is to give copyright holders another way to get the word out that their works are free for copying and other uses under specific conditions."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, December 17, 2002
CETIS: More Journals to your desktop, courtesy of the British Library, Adobe and Elsevier
CETIS: More Journals to your desktop, courtesy of the British Library, Adobe and Elsevier"Article search and delivery services aren't exactly new, but one of the biggest and most respected, inside from The British Library, is to provide easy, direct-to-desktop access to its treasure trove of research. The catch? Substantial cost and use restrictions designed to keep the publishers on board."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 16, 2002
Learning Circuits: XML and the Future of E-Learning
Learning Circuits: XML and the Future of E-LearningA very limited introduction. Left me with more questions than insights on XML's importance in e-learning.
Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 16, 2002
UsabilityNet: Methods
UsabilityNet: Methods TableAn interactive usability methods table that allows you to filter methods based on limited time/resources, limited skills/expertise, or no direct acess to users.
usability Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 16, 2002
Business2.0: How to Think With Your Gut
Business2.0: How to Think With Your Gut"Businesspeople retell these parables to refresh their faith in sturdy virtues like risk-taking and creativity. But to researchers who study how managers think, the tales carry an obvious moral: The most brilliant decisions tend to come from the gut. While that observation is not new, it is now backed by a growing body of research from economics, neurology, cognitive psychology, and other fields. What the science suggests is that intuition -- or instinct, or hunch, or "learning without awareness," or whatever you want to call it -- is a real form of knowledge. It may be nonrational, ineffable, and not always easy to get in touch with, but it can process more information on a more sophisticated level than most of us ever dreamed."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 16, 2002
Inc: Street Smarts: The Employee Mentality
Inc: Street Smarts: The Employee Mentality"There's an important lesson you have to learn when you own and operate your own business: your employees don't think like you. No matter how closely you work with them, no matter how well you treat them, no matter how hard you try to develop team spirit, your relationship to the business is fundamentally different from theirs, and so is the way you approach your work. Employees have one mentality, and owners have another -- and that's all right."