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BBC: Surgery on the web

BBC: Surgery on the web
A new cyber medical college has been set up in the UK to educate doctors, nurses and other health professionals. From Monday, health workers anywhere in the world will be able to log-on to the internet to learn how to carry out surgical operations or the latest medical procedure.

Permalink | Tuesday, September 04, 2001

IT-Training: Ten pennies for e-learning’s

IT-Training: Ten pennies for e-learning’s wishing well
Elliott Masie: One of the perks of being an analyst in the learning and training field is that I get to dream out loud about what is needed in our industry. And this is my wish list...I also want the character that Martin Sheen plays on West Wing to enrol in an e-learning course – let’s get millions of viewers seeing that e-learning is a real and normal component of the human learning process. What better way to do that than through TV and film models...

Permalink | Tuesday, September 04, 2001

CNET: Internet replacing libraries for

CNET: Internet replacing libraries for homework
Thanks to the Internet, research projects and other school assignments are being completed at home, on-line, replacing last-minute trips to the library, according to a study released Saturday. Seventy-one percent of middle school and high school students with Internet access said they relied on the electronic technology the most in completing a project, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Permalink | Tuesday, September 04, 2001

Fastrak-Consulting: Checking out One thing

Fastrak-Consulting: Checking out
One thing that computers do really well - and with much less effort than human beings - is to run a test; a certain type of test that is, using highly-structured question formats for which answer judging, scoring and feedback can be readily automated. Because tests are not difficult to put together and deploy online - at least not at a superficial level - practically everyone does it. But what purpose do these tests really serve and do they provide us with the information we need about what students have learned?

Permalink | Tuesday, September 04, 2001

Darwin: Five thoughts about… online

Darwin: Five thoughts about... online communities
Amy Jo Kim: There’s a useful three-element process that you can think about when building a community. First, we’re creating a fertile habitat where people will thrive. That involves not just the platform we choose, the technology we choose, but the energy that flows into it. Just like a biological ecosystem needs energy, communities need energy, particularly at the beginning. They need either money or funding. They need startup energy. They need people’s energy to get the thing going.

Permalink | Tuesday, September 04, 2001

Online Learning Magazine: Closed for

Online Learning Magazine: Closed for business
Two years ago, learning portals popped up across the Internet’s landscape. Today, many are buried in the dot-com rubble. What happened?

Permalink | Monday, September 03, 2001

Online Learning Magazine: Land of

Online Learning Magazine: Land of Confusion
Six pieces of advice on how to evaluate a learning management system.

Permalink | Monday, September 03, 2001

news-press: Online classes catching on

news-press: Online classes catching on quickly
The Florida Virtual School that enrolled a mere dozen students four years ago now has close to 5,000 registered and another 1,000 waiting to get in...Better technology and a better understanding of how online learning works is helping attract and keep students.

Permalink | Monday, September 03, 2001

IBM Developer Works: The Principle

IBM Developer Works: The Principle of Least Astonishment
Throughout the history of engineering, one usability principle seems to me to have risen high above all others. It's called the Principle of Least Astonishment -- the assertion that the most usable system is the one that least often leaves users astonished. Web pages violate this rule constantly, flagrantly, and in ways that produce a great deal of the ill-will that Web designers sometimes face. Web pages astonish users by hiding buttons, providing buttons that don't work, and redefining the basic visual cues that are supposed to allow users to navigate a page...

Permalink | Monday, September 03, 2001

OJR: Writing for a Global

OJR: Writing for a Global Audience
Online writers and editors frequently talk about writing for a global audience, but in practice, most seem to make little effort to address the particular problems such a challenge presents. This victory of pragmatism over theory is understandable: after all, the vast majority of publications, whether on the Web or not, are not truly international in focus, and no new medium is going to change this fact. Still, there are some guidelines and a few easy tricks that are quick to implement to make a site more globally friendly.

Permalink | Saturday, September 01, 2001

The Altantic: Beyond the tech

The Altantic: Beyond the tech bubble
"When the Internet boom went bust, suddenly all sorts of people knew all along that every commercial venture associated with the Internet was an act of folly. People who lacked the nerve to question the boom while it was happening were newly emboldened. It was as if the whole crowd was shouting in unison that the emperor had no clothes" -- Michael Lewis responds to James Fallows in the first round of their e-mail exchange about Lewis's new book, *Next: The Future Just Happened*.

Permalink | Saturday, September 01, 2001

eWeek: IM for business takes

eWeek: IM for business takes off
Answering customer instant messages, experts say, can be less expensive than taking their phone calls—either over the traditional voice network or via the Web—because agents can handle more than one session at once. And because it's immediate, it can be more effective than e-mail, particularly in situations where customers may be frustrated or impatient.

Permalink | Saturday, September 01, 2001

Wired: Dot’s in a Name

Wired: Dot's in a Name No More
Publicly traded Internet companies are actively dropping the "dot-com" and "net" suffixes and prefixes they inserted in their corporate monikers at the height of the Net stock boom. Instead, they're following a trend that began in the private sector last year by picking new names less closely associated with the financially troubled new economy.

Permalink | Saturday, September 01, 2001

Wired: Wireless PCs: Not Just

Wired: Wireless PCs: Not Just for Cheats Schools are beginning to scrap hard-wired computer labs in favor of wireless laptops and handheld PCs. Public school administrators are admitting the failure of schools' ubiquitous computer labs, which some experts say have had a negligible impact on education, despite two decades of being in schools. Now schools are experimenting with wireless computing technology. Instead of taking kids to the computers, the computers are coming to the kids.

Permalink | Friday, August 31, 2001

Yahoo!: Reed Elsevier to Buy

Yahoo!: Reed Elsevier to Buy Online Education Co
Publishing giant Reed Elsevier added another arm to its education business on Monday with an agreement to buy U.S. online teacher training firm Classroom Connect Inc for an undisclosed sum.

Permalink | Friday, August 31, 2001

KM World: Netting knowledge via

KM World: Netting knowledge via the corporate intranet
Building a usable knowledge database of the human assets of an organization--details about the skills and training of each person in the company and the projects to which they have contributed--is one way that forward-thinking companies are using Web technology.

Permalink | Friday, August 31, 2001

KM World: The importance of

KM World: The importance of writing badly
David Weinberger: Feeling constrained to write well can impede a Net conversation as well as propel it. Slowing it down may make it more deliberative but it is more likely to make it moribund. More important, a carefully written, flawless posting can imply a fixity of meaning that shunts the conversation from potentially useful courses. Writing hastily, accepting the inevitability of flaws, results in messages that implicitly say that the writer is thinking on her feet, is open to contradiction, is excited about taking the ideas to new places.

Permalink | Friday, August 31, 2001

The Chronicle: U. of Maryland

The Chronicle: U. of Maryland Will Help Uzbekistan Create a Virtual University
The online university would make existing University of Maryland courses available through distance learning but would also create new courses specifically for Uzbek students.

Permalink | Thursday, August 30, 2001

Wired: All the Trash That’s

Wired: All the Trash That's Fit to Post
According to scattered news reports from all over the United States, kids are using the Internet to tease, bully or just generally harass each other -- and, in some cases, their teachers as well. And although parents and some fellow students are outraged by such sites, legal experts say that students who engage in online torment are doing nothing wrong -- that such nuisances are simply to be expected in a free society.

Permalink | Thursday, August 30, 2001

MIT Technology Review: Virtual Worlds

MIT Technology Review: Virtual Worlds Get Real
Some 35,000 movie makers, gamers, graphics artists, hardware developers and researchers gathered earlier this month at SIGGRAPH 2001 in Los Angeles to demonstrate just how good they're getting at modeling the physical world—and then at going it one better.

Permalink | Thursday, August 30, 2001

NY Times: Exploration of World

NY Times: Exploration of World Wide Web Tilts From Eclectic to Mundane
While plenty of people do publish their personal musings and pictures of their babies, new data shows that for many people, the Web has become a routine electronic device. Often, Internet users stick to a half- dozen sites for news, sports scores, airline tickets and other things they need regularly. Many set up "personalized portals" that display only the categories of news, entertainment and financial information they are interested in when they log on.

Permalink | Thursday, August 30, 2001

Fast Company: Click U Virtual

Fast Company: Click U
Virtual networking truly clicks at Indiana University, where students of the online MBA program collaborate and communicate across time zones and oceans, using breakneck technology and scheduling savvy.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 29, 2001

Intelligent KM: In the Mail

Intelligent KM: In the Mail
No matter how you define KM - what processes, technologies and applications you include - most of us fail to give good old email much play as a major KM tool. But as a cumulative data repository, email probably exploits as much of an enterprise's storage as any application (KM or not) and is most workers' primary collaboration tool.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 29, 2001

CSM: Beating Web cheaters at

CSM: Beating Web cheaters at their own game Cheating on schoolwork has simmered on as long as there have been students averse to studying. But the age of the Internet has woven a host of new twists on the perennial problem of plagiarism... Last year, St. Andrew's went on the offensive. The school purchased Turnitin.com, an online service that compares student papers to a vast database of Internet documents. A suspect paper is scanned for similarities and returned with matching passages highlighted - accompanied by websites where the sources can be found.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 29, 2001

Darwin: The Mind’s Scaffolding David

Darwin: The Mind's Scaffolding David Weinberger: External scaffolding includes the simple ways we organize the world (e.g., alphabetizing our CDs), the chalkboard the physics professor uses, libraries, the Web, language itself and social institutions. Without these, we are naught but damn dirty apes. The characteristics of our mind that we identify as most peculiarly human depend on our ability to alter our world to help us think. Our human mind is inextricably entwined with the world and its manipulation.

Permalink | Wednesday, August 29, 2001

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