Content-Wire: The Usability of Online
Content-Wire: The Usability of Online ContentUsability specialists need to learn more about content, something rather vital that
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NY Times: Internet Surpasses Its
NY Times: Internet Surpasses Its Original GoalNearly 40 years after it was conceived as a method of maintaining communications in the event of an attack on the United States, the Internet
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Forbes: How to Make Technology-Based
Forbes: How to Make Technology-Based Training WorkChange may not be easy, but it is necessary, inevitable and often beneficial. Whether your business succeeds or fails depends in part upon how well your organization leverages its full intellectual capital -- and e-learning is taking a starring role. Also, think about joining forces with an organization that has implemented e-learning -- share knowledge and learn together. Keeping informed and following the steps outlined in this guide will help to ensure a comprehensive, well-thought-out e-learning system for your company -- and may help to safeguard your company's future in the process.
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Itranet Design Magazine: Found Software
Itranet Design Magazine: Found Software for Virtual TeamworkThe technologies that enable groups to piece together a shared vision are technologies that enable people to see the same thing. A movie screen, TV screen, computer screen, data projectors and large monitors all create a shared space, a place that all participants can share thoughts and ideas.
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BBC: Web connects design students
BBC: Web connects design studentsAn innovative programme using interactive learning techniques has allowed architecture students and professors from across the US and Latin American to share and pass on their knowledge
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Computer World: E-Learning evangelists Jackie
Computer World: E-Learning evangelistsJackie Sullivan, a project manager at a large food manufacturer in the Chicago area, attempted to complete a bachelor's degree in IT twice before concluding that, as a single mom and working IT professional, e-learning offered her the best route to a diploma...
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LOOP: Experience Models The authors
LOOP: Experience ModelsThe authors describe Sapient
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Gerry McGovern: Website content: the
Gerry McGovern: Website content: the need to specializeOne of the most serious mistakes that people new to content make is underestimating the expense and sheer difficulty of launching a successful publication. Yes, the Internet has made everyone a publisher, and every website is indeed a publication. What is lacking, however, is an understanding of publishing. Hard lessons are only recently being learned.
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NY Times: Internet Surpasses Its
NY Times: Internet Surpasses Its Original GoalTo judge by the availability of media sites, many of which were inaccessible in the hours just after the first plane hit the World Trade Center on Tuesday morning, one might assume the Internet had failed the test. But in fact, according to firms that analyze Web site traffic and performance, while some sites slowed, the overall flow of data across the Internet was not degraded by either damage to critical fiber optic lines or the clogging of those lines by Web users.
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Washington Post: Taking Classes To
Washington Post: Taking Classes To the Masses While the killer app that would draw people by the millions to online learning hasn't materialized, while many high-profile ventures flounder, there have been big strides at a more mundane level. Hundreds of universities of every sort have been putting some pretty basic courses up on the Web, using sometimes pedestrian software. And students seem to think they're okay. Community colleges and regional universities that have slowly, organically moved into the online arena -- doing their old job in a new way -- have succeeded where the flashy business types and big-time private schools have not... The nonprofit tortoises may have passed the dot-com hares.Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 17, 2001
Converge: The Power Of Portals:
Converge: The Power Of Portals: Personalizing The Web To Build CommunityGood relationships are built on mutual understanding. When individuals can use a portal to get the targeted information they require, they are more likely to be in touch with an institution on a more regular basis. That kind of frequent usage promotes stronger relationships and deeper bonds between the individual and the institution.
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The Chronicle: Pakistan Plans Its
The Chronicle: Pakistan Plans Its First Virtual UniversityPakistan's Ministry of Science and Technology has announced plans to establish a virtual university here. The institution, which is to be called simply the Virtual University, will be the first of its kind in Pakistan when it opens next February.
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The Chronicle: Canadian Universities Band
The Chronicle: Canadian Universities Band Together in a Giant Journal-Licensing DealIn Canada, 64 universities have banded together to spend nearly $30-million (U.S.) on nationwide site licenses for online scholarly journals. The National Site Licensing Project will provide 650 journals and numerous citation indexes to its members.
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Tehelka: Not just falling buildings
Tehelka: Not just falling buildingsAs the talking heads on American television have begun bristling with threats of armed retaliation, it is necessary to say this over and over again. The Arab people are not just terrorists, but teachers. Not just terrorists, but patient mothers. Not just terrorists, but children wanting toys. Or, to hell with cliches! They are not just terrorists, but a man worried about his second ulcer. Not just terrorists, but a woman wanting books. Not just terrorists, but a family terrified of terrorists who come in tanks.
Add tag Permalink | Saturday, September 15, 2001
Tehelka: Unheard voices: Afghan refugees
Tehelka: Unheard voices: Afghan refugees tell their storiesIn the first of a powerful four part series, Meena Nanji - a film maker from Los Angeles - speaks to a range of Afghan women on the run from the Taliban. Teachers reduced to prostitutes, doctors to beggars, Nanji brings home the true terror of the Taliban.
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The Atlantic: Coming to Grips
The Atlantic: Coming to Grips with JihadWhat are the roots of Islamic fundamentalist rage against the U.S.? How did Afghanistan become a hotbed of international terrorists? Three Atlantic articles look at the origins and consequences of jihad.
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NY Times: Microsoft to Change
NY Times: Microsoft to Change Flight GameMicrosoft will remove depictions of the World Trade Center towers from future versions of Flight Simulator, its popular computer game that allows players to fly airplanes over New York City and other metropolitan areas.
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Fast Company: Good to Great
Fast Company: Good to Great Here are the facts of life about these and other change myths. Companies that make the change from good to great have no name for their transformation -- and absolutely no program. They neither rant nor rave about a crisis -- and they don't manufacture one where none exists. They don't "motivate" people -- their people are self-motivated. There's no evidence of a connection between money and change mastery. And fear doesn't drive change -- but it does perpetuate mediocrity. Nor can acquisitions provide a stimulus for greatness: Two mediocrities never make one great company. Technology is certainly important -- but it comes into play only after change has already begun. And as for the final myth, dramatic results do not come from dramatic process -- not if you want them to last, anyway. A serious revolution, one that feels like a revolution to those going through it, is highly unlikely to bring about a sustainable leap from being good to being great.Add tag Permalink | Saturday, September 15, 2001
NY Times: Better Networks: Look
NY Times: Better Networks: Look to Nature Over the ensuing decades, as the Internet turned from an academic and military tool into a mass medium, only the efficiencies of packet switching have enabled it to meet demand. Even so, as any Web user or e-mail correspondent can attest, traffic can still be congested and unpredictable. Now ideas for advances in data routing are beginning to emerge from a surprisingly simple model: the ant.Add tag Permalink | Saturday, September 15, 2001
Honolulu Star: Ocean of Knowledge
Honolulu Star: Ocean of KnowledgeA novel combination of sea-schooling and e-schooling, the Ocean Learning Academy will expose 11 students to a high school curriculum in a maritime context...The students will mix ocean learning with online learning -- all were provided with laptop computers so they can log on to the Internet to study math, social studies, language arts and technology.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, September 14, 2001
Nando Times: A disconnect in
Nando Times: A disconnect in online learningSince the dawn of the Internet age, boosters have predicted the end of leafy college campuses as schools go virtual. The miracle of the Internet was supposed to let great teachers reach any student, any time, anywhere. And people all over the world would get the equivalent of a Harvard degree through a computer and a network connection... What a crock.
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CIO: Thanks for the Memories
CIO: Thanks for the MemoriesPerhaps the most insidious side of the layoff epidemic is the intellectual capital that is walking out the door. CIO's case study examines how Northrop Grumman conducted a knowledge "audit," polling nearly 5,000 employees with a 97-question survey to determine their knowledge needs, sharing practices and prejudices. The results confirmed that employees were eager to share their knowledge in an automated system, but that challenges, such as integrating the systems across lines of business, remained. Knowledge management expert Tom Davenport critiques Northrop's efforts and plans, which he says are mostly sound, and predicts that we'll see more such projects motivated by the loss of intellectual assets. But Davenport challenges the willingness of employees to participate in systems intended to minimize the impact of their own eventual layoff.
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CIO: Stay Tuned for More
CIO: Stay Tuned for More KnowledgeVideoconferencing hasn't exactly fulfilled its promise in the corporate world, but a few universities are putting the put-upon technology to innovative uses.
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Knowledge@Wharton: The Loneliness of the
Knowledge@Wharton: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance InnovatorWhen companies look for new knowledge as a way to spark innovation, they tend to look in their immediate neighborhood
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