Nua Surveys: The Great Educator
Nua Surveys: The Great EducatorAccording to a report by Pew Internet & American Life, college students are embracing the Internet like no other group and most of those online undergraduates who were surveyed by Pew only had good things to say about the medium..."the Internet is the information cornerstone of student's lives - not just in regard to school projects but also on every subject that matters to them. "
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, October 01, 2002
Converge Magazine: New Technologies In Education
Converge Magazine: New Technologies In EducationSo, what can you expect the future to look like for new computing devices? How will information pass in and out of these new devices? Will there be some radical new ways to display digital images? Several of these new technologies are closer than you realize.
- Portable Computing Devices
- Wireless to the Backbone
- Tele-immersion and Three Dimensional Imaging
- New Projectors and Flatter LCDs
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, October 01, 2002
Wired: Stretching Minds, Bodies in Class
Wired: Stretching Minds, Bodies in ClassThe Strategies for Schools program offers common-sense suggestions like purchasing adjustable desks and chairs to accommodate growing students, allowing time for stretch breaks when kids use computers, placing monitor screens at eye level and making sure students' feet rest on the floor or providing them with a footrest. It's an effort to prevent debilitating injuries like repetitive strain injury (RSI).
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, October 01, 2002
KM World: Knowledge transformation
KM World: Knowledge transformationDavid Weinberger: Businesses shouldn't be colleges. They are aiming at something less interesting and more tangible. But a business executive serious enough to be thinking about investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a knowledge management system should remember the role of knowledge in his or her own most intense encounter with the stuff: college.
The value of knowledge isn't that we have it but that it changes us. Knowledge doesn't do that all on its own the way Kool-Aid changes water. Where knowledge changed us the most
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 30, 2002
elearning Magazine: Moving the Camera
elearning Magazine: Moving the CameraContent development is entering a new era because there
social media Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 30, 2002
User Interface 7 East: Getting from Research to Personas: Harnessing the Power of Data
User Interface 7 East: Getting from Research to Personas: Harnessing the Power of DataKim Goodwin writes about the need to focus persona creation around behavioral variables rather than demographic variables. She gives some guidelines: 1) Gather ethnographic user data, 2) Add contextual details, and 3) Use narrative to bring out the persona's attitudes, needs, and problems.
interface, personas, research Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 30, 2002
Seattlepi: Redmond center previews Microsoft’s vision for future office
Seattlepi: Redmond center previews Microsoft's vision for future officeMicrosoft Corp. today will unveil the Center for Information Work, a permanent exhibit of office products and software that are at least five years away...
Workers e-mail each other spoken messages, or videos of themselves delivering messages, rather than simply writing e-mails or leaving voice mails. They send e-mails that include clips of newscasts that refer to the company, rather than simply describing or quoting the broadcasts.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, September 27, 2002
PopTech: Interview with Howard Rheingold
PopTech: Interview with Howard RheingoldWe're now seeing the Internet -- which, as influential as it's been, has been limited to the desktop -- about to become untethered from the desktop and become part of the devices that we carry and eventually wear. And so I think that this intersection of mobile communications and the Internet is important enough, but at the same time there are more and more devices in the environment and in objects that will be equipped with radio communications that our devices will be able to talk to. So I think that this intersection of global communication and pervasive computing has the potential to be much more powerful than either the PC or Internet revolutions alone.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, September 27, 2002
A List Apart: Scope Creep
A List Apart: Scope CreepWe e-learning practitioners can empathize with this: "Most project managers try their best to discover what clients want at the beginning of the project. They use meetings, questionnaires, personal interviews
Add tag Permalink | Friday, September 27, 2002
TechLearn: Putting the Management in Learning Management Systems
TechLearn: Putting the Management in Learning Management SystemsElliott Masie: I have taped a 10 minute video streaming TechLearn BRIEFING on the topic of Putting the Management in Learning Management Systems.
I address the key challenge of what to do the day after a Learning Management System is installed. How do we focus on Managing Learning?
Add tag Permalink | Friday, September 27, 2002
Sydney Morning Herald: How to make e-learning interesting
Sydney Morning Herald: How to make e-learning interestingMost people cannot be reprogrammed by a few hours' e-learning. When it comes to software, humans learn best from experience - especially by making mistakes. Computer simulations are an excellent way to provide vital mistake-making experience, yet most e-learning courses are little more than page-turning applications.
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, September 26, 2002
Online Learning 2002 Update
Online Learning 2002 UpdateMore materials today:
- Presentation handouts
- More photographs
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, September 26, 2002
Ubiquity: The New Computing
Ubiquity: The New ComputingBen Shneiderman: The old computing is about what computers can do; the new computing is about what people can do. Designers can do better in helping users succeed. Too often people are struggling because they can't understand the menu choices, they don't know what the dialog boxes mean, and the error messages are too frustrating and confusing. Attachments won't open. Viruses intrude on their experience. Spam clutters their e-mail inboxes. I have found Leonardo da Vinci to be an appropriate inspirational muse for the new computing. He combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering. That kind of unity is needed once again
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, September 26, 2002
Syllabus: Ready or Not—PDAs in the Classroom
Syllabus: Ready or Not--PDAs in the ClassroomAs with any new technology there are advantages and disadvantages to using small, inexpensive computers in the classroom. Through a number of fairly extensive pilot projects using wirelessly connected PocketPC devices at Wake Forest University, we
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Syllabus: New Learning Spaces: Smart Learners, Not Smart Classrooms
Syllabus: New Learning Spaces: Smart Learners, Not Smart ClassroomsBut turning our classrooms into spaces resembling Hollywood studios is just throwing great quantities of money at this issue instead of addressing the really difficult problems that need to be solved to improve learning. The most serious of those problems is that most teaching and learning does not occur in classrooms, that teachers and learners have no formal training in teaching or learning, that we have not developed and deployed the tools that teachers and students need for teaching, learning, and administration, that we have not used the technology we have
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Conference Blogging: Online Learning 2002
Conference Blogging: Online Learning 2002Online Learning 2002 kicked off at Anaheim yesterday, and thanks to these amazing bloggers, we can virtually be a part of it.
- Stephen Downes's photo gallery
- Jay Cross's presentation followup
blogging Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Animation Express: Distance Learning
Animation Express: Distance Learning"In a 1960's-style monkey cage experiment, the subject's ways of interacting and communicating are replaced by technology -- then documented when human-like metaphors are placed in front of it.
Although society is becoming closer intellectually with the Internet
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, September 25, 2002
elearningage: Quality and eLearning in Europe
elearningAge: Quality and eLearning in EuropeSummary report of a survey that asked European training professionals for their views on the quality of eLearning.
Key findings: 61% rated the overall quality of eLearning as "fair" or "poor".
[Note: PDF file, 422kb]
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, September 24, 2002
BBC: Learn for free online
BBC: Learn for free onlineThe first group of courses (from MIT's OpenCourseWare Project) are set to be published on the internet on 30 September, including subjects like anthropology, biology, chemistry and computer science...
MIT staff point out that if this initiative is successful, and other institutions follow, it will put the net back on track towards its original goal of sharing information and knowledge around the world, rather than selling CDs and t-shirts.
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, September 24, 2002
elearn Magazine: Developing Your e-Learning for Your Learners
elearn Magazine: Developing Your e-Learning for Your LearnersIn this article, I'm going to point out some of the critical issues related to learning-goals by examining two prototypical course design challenges. Both hypothetical courses will be taught with roughly the same content, but for different reasons. My goal is to highlight some of the fundamental yet critical design choices and how to make them.
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, September 24, 2002
Content-Exchange: Long and Literary Magazine Learns to Publish in the Shortness of the Web
Content-Exchange: Long and Literary Magazine Learns to Publish in the Shortness of the Web"the overwhelming majority of people who read the articles we put online do so on screen rather than printing them to paper. I know that my tolerance for reading from a monitor has risen over the past few years
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, September 24, 2002
IBM: Using social network analysis to improve knowledge creation and sharing
IBM: Using social network analysis to improve knowledge creation and sharing- Knowing someone knows
- Gaining timely access to that person
- Creating viable knowledge through cognitive engagement
- Learning from a safe relationship
Also see Peter Morville's article on SNA.
Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 23, 2002
Learning Circuits: The E-Learning Industry
Learning Circuits: The E-Learning IndustryAdd tag Permalink | Monday, September 23, 2002
Elmundo: Multimedia Gallery
Elmundo: Multimedia GalleryElmundo's collection of interactive graphics.
These Spanish sites create some really inspiring infographics, check out Malofiej-awards 2002 for more.
infographics Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 23, 2002
Gerry McGovern: Information architecture: using card sorting for web classification design
Gerry McGovern: Using card sorting for web classification designCard sorting is an excellent approach to help you choose your classifications. It can help shortcut long, tedious and often fruitless debate. It delivers classifications that people would actually choose, not what they say they would choose. Because it's fast and easy to do, you can get a wide range of feedback into your classification design.
Also, check out Step Two Design's Information design using card sorting
information architecture, card sorting Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 23, 2002