China Daily: Online schools have
China Daily: Online schools have much to learnOnline colleges will become one of the most promising Internet businesses in China despite dim prospects for profitability in the near future, according to industry executives and experts. Between July 2000 and March 2001, 38 universities enrolled 240,000 students for their online colleges, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said.
school Add tag Permalink | Thursday, August 23, 2001
New Zealand Herald: NZ publisher
New Zealand Herald: NZ publisher wins UK e-learning roleFrom next month, Wendy Pye Publishing will begin providing literacy and numeracy learning material to the UK portal http://www.learn.co.uk, the information hub at the centre of the country's multimillion-pound plan to bring learning and teaching resources online.
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, August 23, 2001
MIT Technology Review: Science Education
MIT Technology Review: Science Education ParadoxThe United States by any conceivable measure has the finest scientists in the world. But the rest of the population, by any rational standard, is abysmally ignorant of science, mathematics and all things technical. That is the paradox of scientific elites and scientific illiterates: how can the same system of education that produced all those brilliant scientists also have produced all that ignorance?
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, August 23, 2001
Infoworld: IBM, Monster.com kick start
Infoworld: IBM, Monster.com kick start corporate e-learningEnterprises exploring e-learning options will have more to choose from this week as several vendors including IBM, Monster.com, and Click2learn tout new platforms and services for online training and employee development.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 22, 2001
Guardian Unlimited: Online university to
Guardian Unlimited: Online university to open in 2003Universitas 21 Global, the online university, is expected to be unveiled next month. Following negotiations that have dragged on for almost a year, the venture, jointly sponsored by the information provider Thomson Corp and the consortium of elite institutions known as Universitas 21, is expected to be launched in New York.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 22, 2001
Korea Times: CEOs Go Online
Korea Times: CEOs Go Online to Hone Management SkillsAround 20 top-level company executives from both local and foreign companies will get together for an online education course, Change Without Plan, announced e-learning service provider Unext Korea yesterday.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 22, 2001
Wired: What’s Really in Their
Wired: What's Really in Their BackpacksUnzip a typical student's knapsack and what will you find in 2001? Handhelds, cell phones, gel pens, music-listening devices, maybe even a book or two.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 22, 2001
NY Times: Nuggets Mined From
NY Times: Nuggets Mined From the Corporate Past, for a FeeCorporate histories are nothing new. But a resurgent interest in the past is leading companies to commission scholarly histories that can serve as management tools... At Corning, the innovation book's analysis of how the company developed flat-panel glass in the 1960's and the material used in catalytic converters in the 1970's will be used as a training tool in its life sciences and optical networking units...
innovation Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 22, 2001
CBS MarketWatch: Get to learning!
CBS MarketWatch: Get to learning! E-learning, that is As droves of fresh-faced students invade college campuses this time of year, millions of adults will also go back to school -- but they'll do so at home or at the office by turning on their computer and logging into an online classroom. It also marks a time when the stocks of for-profit education ventures get a pop thanks to the added visibility that the industry gains because of seasonal advertising campaigns, new education legislation, and general media coverage on education.Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, August 21, 2001
Learning Circuits: Web Course Usability
Learning Circuits: Web Course UsabilityInstructors and course developers are well versed in the art of instructional design. Despite this expertise and experience, many Web-based courses suffer from weak Web design and poor usability... Increase the learning potential of Web courses by following these simple principles from Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen.
- elearningpost: Jakob Nielsen on e-learning
instructional design, usability Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, August 21, 2001
Learning Circuits: Training E-Trainers It
Learning Circuits: Training E-TrainersIt
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, August 21, 2001
Houston Chronicle: Web-based pilot program
Houston Chronicle: Web-based pilot program shows promiseClasses offer flexibility for today's busy youngsters, proponents say, and help alleviate the teacher shortage. They also bring more advanced classes to underserved students in rural areas... Other educators point to the content... "You're not sitting there watching a talking head. I previewed some of the courses, and one of them was studying Kosovo and the Bosnian war. There were people explaining that this war really isn't about material things and border lines, but a war of religion. There was some lady from Kosovo who was actually talking from there. Now, when did a textbook or course come alive like that?"
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, August 21, 2001
Radio National: Knowledge Indignation: Road
Radio National: Knowledge Indignation: Road Rage on the Information Superhighway (via Camworld)In ancient times if you wanted power, you burned the libraries and controlled the flow of information.Then God created the Internet. And in theory, everyone could read everything. It didn't last. Now, a couple of decades later, knowledge that was available to the public and scholars for free, is a hot commodity. It's being, wait for it, 'monetised'. That means ways are being found to make money out of it. Worse, access to it is being bought up by half a dozen big online publishers who are locking away information, research, journals, archives and libraries.
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, August 21, 2001
Context Magazine: Degrees ‘R’ Us
Context Magazine: Degrees 'R' UsNot since the Wizard of Oz handed the Scarecrow his "Doctor of Thinkology" scroll have college degrees been so easy to come by. For the right price, Internet diploma factories will hand out sheepskins practically overnight. No qualifications necessary. One investigation found that a diploma mill
Add tag Permalink | Monday, August 20, 2001
Modesto Bee: Discipline, active learning
Modesto Bee: Discipline, active learning required"Online classes require a student who is self-disciplined -- an active learner. The courses are best suited for those who can manage their own time and take responsibility for their education, without the usual benefit of regular class meeting times. There's no hand-holding or coddling in virtual classrooms... It's not for crybabies. This is an adult way to learn."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, August 20, 2001
CIO: KM Works Magic for
CIO: KM Works Magic for KetchumEvery other month, Ketchum runs a promotion such as a raffle to encourage employees to contribute knowledge to the system. A newsletter distributed companywide offers recognition of such things as the document of the month or the most downloaded document. Still, getting people to use myKGN both as a repository and a resource is an ongoing challenge...
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Monday, August 20, 2001
Webreview: Eleven Great Collaboration Tools
Webreview: Eleven Great Collaboration ToolsFewer and fewer Web projects are worked on by single team members. In the past, work might have been clearly divided with one member coding, one doing graphics, and one generating new content. Nowadays, applications are becoming more complex, and the coding and design efforts must be shared by many team members... Fortunately, there are tools to help make it all go smoothly.
Add tag Permalink | Monday, August 20, 2001
E-learning Advisor: SAP Learning Management
E-learning Advisor: SAP Learning Management SolutionThe SAP Learning Management Solution is now in pilot testing, and should be available by the second quarter of 2002. The product will integrate with the mySAP.com e-business platform, including mySAP Human Resources (mySAP HR) and other SAP solutions, or you can use it as a standalone e-learning solution.
Add tag Permalink | Saturday, August 18, 2001
MIT Technology Review: Taming the
MIT Technology Review: Taming the Web"Information wants to be free." "The Internet can't be controlled." We've heard it so often that we sometimes take for granted that it's true. But THE INTERNET CAN BE CONTROLLED, and those who argue otherwise are hastening the day when it will be controlled too much, by the wrong people, and for the wrong reasons.
Add tag Permalink | Saturday, August 18, 2001
Webmonkey: IE 6 Overview As
Webmonkey: IE 6 OverviewAs the official release of Microsoft's latest browser looms, Mike gives a glimpse of what to expect, including the good (advanced P3P support), the bad (Smart Tags), and the whatever (integrated multimedia tools).
Add tag Permalink | Saturday, August 18, 2001
Business Week: The New Economy’s
Business Week: The New Economy's New LingoOf the thousands of words added to the language over the past century, the New Economy has added its fair share already -- from bitmap to cyberspace to dot-com to edutainment. The current decade may set a record for jargon and acronym overload. It isn't merely that throngs of new biotech, telecom, and Internet terms will enter the English lexicon. Abstract business-speak can also take on several meanings -- or new ones overnight -- From Silicon Valley to Wall Street, words are entering English so rapidly that even dictionary publishers are struggling to keep up.
Add tag Permalink | Saturday, August 18, 2001
Information Week: McDonald’s Breaks From
Information Week: McDonald's Breaks From E-Learning ProviderAfter three years, McDonald's Corp. has dropped E-learning content developer SmartForce LLC for rival KnowledgeNet.com Inc. to fulfill the online technical training needs of its IS department's 350-plus employees.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, August 17, 2001
Tech Learning: How to Launch
Tech Learning: How to Launch an Online SchoolWe wanted our online program to include as many elements as possible from our bricks-and-mortar schools, and to be just as rigorous. Perhaps most important, we wanted parents to feel like they had a partner in educating their children. Since we didn't really have a model to work from, there were a lot of questions: What technology to buy? Who designs the classes, and how? What is the role of the teacher? In what ways would parents be involved?...
Add tag Permalink | Friday, August 17, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald: Lies, damn
Sydney Morning Herald: Lies, damn lies and Net statisticsResearchers still love the Internet, for they continue to count the ways the ways we use it, how much we use it, where we go online and why. And the data piles higher at the merest hint of an online transaction. Yet analysts are beginning to take a more sober look at research, particularly in the aftermath of the tech wreck, reconsidering the way research is gathered and the way it is used by the companies that commission it.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, August 17, 2001
NY Times: Squeezing the Office
NY Times: Squeezing the Office Into a PalmIn a continued effort to whittle away our remaining private minutes, the makers of hand-held computers have been waging a public-relations battle for the hearts of a critical clientele: corporate technology managers, who buy products by the hundreds to issue to their employees.