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."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, December 13, 2002
First Monday: Beyond “Couch Potatoes”: From Consumers to Designers and Active Contributors
First Monday: Beyond "Couch Potatoes": From Consumers to Designers and Active Contributors"Unfortunately, a large number of new media are designed from the perspective of seeing and treating humans primarily as consumers. In personally meaningful activities, the possibility for humans to be and to act as designers (in cases in which they desire to do so) should be accessible not only to a small group of "high-tech scribes," but rather to all interested individuals and groups. While the core message of the article applies to cultures, mindsets, media, technologies, and educational systems in general, my examples are mostly drawn from computational media, and more specifically from human computer interaction as a particular domain."
social media Add tag Permalink | Friday, December 13, 2002
NY Times: Movie Posters That Talk Back
NY Times: Movie Posters That Talk Back"But what if those posters could talk? What if Leonardo DiCaprio could stare out from a wall and wink at passers-by? What if, rather than being frozen on a poster for the latest James Bond movie, Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry could leap in a full-motion, fist-flying fury to a stereo soundtrack? And what if these posters could interact with film patrons, recognizing their tastes and quickly matching their interests with trailers and show times for movies that they most likely want to see?"
- Wonder if such a concept would work in training rooms/departments. Hmm...
Add tag Permalink | Friday, December 13, 2002
Economic Times: Knowledge management: the new mantra
Economic Times: Knowledge management: the new mantra"As the traditional competitive differentiators have increasingly got commoditized, it has become clear that the effective use of knowledge is a key capability for ensuring corporate success. Thus, many progressive Indian companies have recognized the need to manage organizational knowledge formally so as to extract the best business advantage from it. In addition, as a part of their efforts to build an internationally-recognized brand, Indian companies have begun to realize the need to place explicit focus on thought leadership."
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Thursday, December 12, 2002
Pew Internet Project: American workers
Pew Internet Project: American workersAdd tag Permalink | Thursday, December 12, 2002
FCW: Homeland e-learning group created
FCW: Homeland e-learning group created"The Office of Homeland Security has created a new working group to focus entirely on developing common e-learning tools and courses for the new Homeland Security Department."
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, December 12, 2002
Syllabus: The Electronic Portfolio Boom: What’s it All About?
Syllabus: The Electronic Portfolio Boom: What's it All About?"We seem to be beginning a new wave of technology development in higher education. Freeing student work from paper and making it organized, searchable, and transportable opens enormous possibilities for re-thinking whole curricula: the evaluation of faculty, assessment of programs, certification of student work, how accreditation works. In short, ePortfolios might be the biggest thing in technology innovation on campus. Electronic portfolios have a greater potential to alter higher education at its very core than any other technology application we've known thus far. "
innovation Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, December 11, 2002
Peterme: Can you purchase wisdom?
Peterme: Can you purchase wisdom?"The problem wasn't one of features and functionality -- the software did everything they wanted it to do. The problem was one of design -- learning how to use this system was quite difficult, and often ran contrary to how people currently worked. "
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, December 11, 2002
Toronto Star: E-learning shows new ways minds meet
Toronto Star: E-learning shows new ways minds meet"Using video-conferencing technology and high-speed interactive links to the Internet, more than two dozen students, scattered between the University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, York University and IBM Canada's headquarters, have spent the past three months in a graduate course on Web data management, held simultaneously at four locations."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Useit.com: In the Future, We’ll All Be Harry Potter
Useit.com In the Future, We'll All Be Harry Potter"Much of the Harry Potter books' charm comes from the quirky magic objects that surround Harry and his friends. Rather than being solid and static, these objects embody initiative and activity. This is precisely the shift we'll experience as computational power moves beyond the desktop into everyday objects."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Emerald Insight: Journals of the Week
Emerald Insight: Journals of the WeekAll issues of these journals are available for free download for this week only.
- Strategic Direction
- Online Information Review
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Gerry McGovern: Thinking should come before communication
Gerry McGovern: Thinking should come before communication"Times have changed. It used to be that many organizations didn't communicate enough with their customers, staff and other stakeholders. Now, the danger is that too much communication is occurring."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, December 10, 2002
CETIS: ADL release new implementation guide, conformance test suite almost final version 1.3 of SCOR
CETIS: ADL release new implementation guide, conformance test suite almost final version 1.3 of SCORM"...the new implementation guide takes a very general instructional design development process as its outline, and shows exactly where and how SCORM may impact on that process."
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 09, 2002
Learning Circuits: LMS and LCMS: What’s the Difference?
Learning Circuits: LMS and LCMS: What's the Difference?Wish we could get more case studies on how LMS and LCMS are being used rather than plain-vanilla writeups explaining the differences between them. The article does, however, pose important questions, "The question remains: Just because the technology exists to manage your e-learning content at the bean level, will it have a significant impact on productivity? Can you solve the need for just-enough learning other ways?"
Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 09, 2002
Montague Institute: Ten taxonomy myths
Montague Institute: Ten taxonomy myths"Taxonomies have recently emerged from the quiet backwaters of biology, book indexing, and library science into the corporate limelight. They are supposed to be the silver bullets that will help users find the needle in the intranet haystack, reduce "friction" in electronic commerce, facilitate scientific research, and promote global collaboration. But before this can happen, practitioners need to dispel the myths and confusion, created in part by the multi-disciplinary nature of the task and the hype surrounding content management technologies."
taxonomy Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 09, 2002
MIT Sloan: The Mysterious Art and Science of Knowledge-Worker Performance
MIT Sloan: The Mysterious Art and Science of Knowledge-Worker Performance"In this article, the authors explore five key issues that companies are struggling with and then develop a framework to help organizations think more clearly about how to improve the performance of their knowledge workers."
Note: Only summary is given; complete article costs $15.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, December 06, 2002
Knowledge Board: A crisis of trust
Knowledge Board: A crisis of trust"What makes a full connection possible is trust. I won