CNET: Commentary: Reading online libraries
CNET: Commentary: Reading online librariesGartner believes that success in distributing to students content normally published by university and academic publishers--and the large-scale penetration of the e-learner market--requires a formal, contractual relationship with libraries. Selling pages at 25 cents to individuals and without contracted membership fees does not seem a good way to ensure long-term business viability.
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Intranet Journal: The Database and
Intranet Journal: The Database and the Joke David Weinberger: While a database lets you find what you know is there, jokes are about discovering what you didn't expect. If we were only looking up what we knew was there, we wouldn't be so excited about the Web. It's the discovery promised in jokes that gives the Web its charge... The joke form of information -- discovery of links, human voices telling stories to delight one another -- draws us to the Web like a fire on a cold night. Without the joking form of information, the Web would just be a database.- elearningpost: Serendipitous learning
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, July 26, 2001
Darwin Magazine: The Threads of
Darwin Magazine: The Threads of ConversationDavid Weinberger: Web conversation is threaded differently than real world conversation. Because real world conversation occurs in real time, the threading is sequential, not simultaneous: a topic is pursued until another arises, one topic after another. The topics may reemerge and may shed light on one another, but they occur one thread at a time. And a new topic has to be something likely to be of interest to everyone in the group, because in the real world, we can
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, July 26, 2001
The Financial Gazette: Knowledge generation
The Financial Gazette: Knowledge generation within an organisationFirms today compete increasingly on the basis of information. Whether their strategies call for excellence in research and development (R&D), in operational efficiency, or in "knowing the customer", the basis of competition comes down to their ability to acquire, share and use information wisely.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, July 25, 2001
CNET: Web companies build online
CNET: Web companies build online library Online research start-up Ebrary and the Learning Network, an e-learning company owned by Pearson, on Wednesday are launching a beta version of a virtual library...dubbed Ebrarian 1.0, will be available on a co-branded Web site, enabling people to scour business and economic titles for free. People will also have the option to buy materials in print form or photocopy the information for a fee.Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, July 25, 2001
The Sunday Times: Cyber-games make
The Sunday Times: Cyber-games make children brighterComputer games are giving a generation of young Britons a level of co-ordination and powers of concentration equivalent to those observed in top-level athletes, a government-funded study has shown.
gaming Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, July 25, 2001
Training Magazine: Here Come the
Training Magazine: Here Come the Millennials Ready or not here they comeAdd tag Permalink | Wednesday, July 25, 2001
KM World: KM and e-learning:
KM World: KM and e-learning: a growing partnership Yes, e-learning saves travel time and is available 24/7, but those often-touted advantages of e-learning miss the point. Enterprises that use e-learning as a part of their training strategy can do things that are just not possible with classroom training. The real value of e-learning lies in its ability to integrate into enterprise business processes and to better leverage intellectual capital. Using e-learning, a company can automate training delivery and offer customized training. New software tools allow knowledge located throughout the enterprise to be more easily captured and distributed as e-learning modules.knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, July 24, 2001
The Chronicle: Army’s Portal Could
The Chronicle: Army's Portal Could Benefit Other Distance-Education Projects An Internet "portal" where soldiers can register and enroll in online college courses has been declared fully operational by the U.S. Army and its contractor, PricewaterhouseCoopers. The portal is called eArmyU.- eLearn Magazine: eArmyU.com
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The Standard: The Size Of
The Standard: The Size Of Things Today we're never too proud to measure, count or otherwise take numerical stock of things. On the contrary, we take a technocrat's pride in hauling out one yardstick or another at every opportunity, translating the fluid, messy world around us into the comforting precision of numbers. We have embraced the carpenter's great credo, "measure twice, cut once." Yet it's a paradox of business life that the very act of measuring can change the reality we're trying to size up - with consequences we ignore at our peril.Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, July 24, 2001
SiliconValley.com: Ideo gives technology a
SiliconValley.com: Ideo gives technology a human touchTake the case of the Stanford Learning Lab. Ideo was asked to create an innovative space inside Wallenberg Hall for students and faculty that corresponds to the Learning Lab's mission of researching how people learn. Through research and prototyping, Ideo architect Fred Dust and his team designed a ``building within a building.'' ... Rooms can be instantly reconfigured with a system of movable walls.
prototyping Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, July 24, 2001
BRW: Online training cuts costs
BRW: Online training cuts costs For two hours every week, new managers at IBM Australia sit at their computers and work through courses on dispute resolution and morale improvement. The introduction of "e-learning" in 1999 has increased the content of their training courses fivefold over what was available in earlier face-to-face training. It has also cut the cost of training new managers by up to 30%. IBM's move to online learning is part of a trend in corporate Australia, as companies turn to the internet to reduce costs and increase the number of staff using in-house training...Add tag Permalink | Monday, July 23, 2001
The Chronicle: Harvard U. and
The Chronicle: Harvard U. and 3 Publishers Develop Experimental Online Archive The Harvard University Library and three major publishers of scholarly journals have joined forces to design an experimental archive for electronic journals. The aim is to find better ways to handle such challenges as long-term preservation and devising rules for access. Working with Harvard are Blackwell Publishing, John Wiley, and the University of Chicago Press.Add tag Permalink | Monday, July 23, 2001
Information Week: Virtual Classes For
Information Week: Virtual Classes For Kids Through a three-way partnership with startup content provider Elrn Inc., infrastructure company Vobix Corp., and the state of Pennsylvania, Einstein Academy, an online public charter school, will open Sept. 11.Add tag Permalink | Monday, July 23, 2001
Useit.com: Tagline Blues: What’s the
Useit.com: Tagline Blues: What's the Site About?A website's tagline must explain what the company does and what makes it unique among competitors. Two questions can help you assess your own tagline: Would it work just as well for competitors? Would any company ever claim the opposite?
Add tag Permalink | Monday, July 23, 2001
Business 2.0: The New Corporate
Business 2.0: The New Corporate Structure -- Unstructured Fifteen years ago companies began flattening organizational charts and reducing the power of hierarchies. Starting five years ago, as a big, abiding consequence of the emergence of a global information network, companies began blurring the boundaries between themselves and the outside world. What's "inside" and what's "outside" is no longer clear...Add tag Permalink | Saturday, July 21, 2001
Forbes: The E-Factory Catches On
Forbes: The E-Factory Catches On Huge increases in productivity result when customers can design the products they want and send orders straight to the plant floor via the Internet.Add tag Permalink | Saturday, July 21, 2001
Slate: Akira Again Its animation
Slate: Akira Again Its animation looks outdated, and its story is a mess. So, what makes Akira a classic anime?interesting Add tag Permalink | Saturday, July 21, 2001
ClickZ: Time Saved Versus Time
ClickZ: Time Saved Versus Time Spent They say content is king, but the Internet has very often treated content as a pauper. We are now, however, experiencing a period of transition with regard to everything to do with content. It's a period in which the focus will be on the value of content and how to make a profit from delivering that content value to the reader.Add tag Permalink | Saturday, July 21, 2001
CSM: Where in the world
CSM: Where in the world is my student? Internet degree programs have been ballyhooed as the next evolutionary step in higher education virtually from the day Netscape brought the Web to the masses in 1995. Although that promise has gone largely unfulfilled, such programs may be starting to hit their stride.Add tag Permalink | Friday, July 20, 2001
DM Review: Getting Down to
DM Review: Getting Down to Brass Tacks with Knowledge Management "Admittedly KM is a victim of its heritage. It came out of the academic world, and some of us have been over- exuberant about discussing the difference between tacit and explicit knowledge. But whatAdd tag Permalink | Friday, July 20, 2001
eCFO: Heads Up Managing content
eCFO: Heads Up Managing content and documents, streamlining information distribution, and integrating with enterprise applications are three reasons to set up a corporate portal. But one view holds that portals can help firms manage knowledge only when combined with programs that focus on people, not technology.Add tag Permalink | Friday, July 20, 2001
IT-Director: Blended or Integrated e-Learning?
IT-Director: Blended or Integrated e-Learning?It is important to analyse the learning objectives first and then design a coherent integrated programme. Too many organisations claim to have blended learning programmes, which in reality are "click and turn" content with a discussion forum tacked on the back end, or a classroom session to train users how to navigate the software bolted on the front. It is also easy to become distracted by the possibilities of visually rich, interactive content, at the expense of basic learner needs.
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, July 19, 2001
Converge Magazine: Online In The
Converge Magazine: Online In The Ivy League: Princeton's Web SolutionToday, Princeton University's online course system is a well-oiled machine. It wasn't always that way. "We tried lots of things that didn't work and finally realized that the only hope we had was to automate the start-up of getting courses online, which we did. That worked," said Howard Strauss. Strauss is manager of Academic Applications, a group that focuses on improving teaching and research for Princeton faculty.
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, July 19, 2001
Wired: Who, What, Where, Why
Wired: Who, What, Where, Why and WebWeb-based journalism is shaking up the academy as journalism schools are scrambling to offer students multimedia skills at the expense, some faculty worry, of traditional reporting.