CIO: Quick Poll Report: CIOs
CIO: Quick Poll Report: CIOs shy away from e-learningE-learning may be a good idea, but it is not good enough to withstand more pressing priorities for CIOs in these tight economic times. Slightly more than 83 percent of respondents to a Quick Poll on CIO.com say they do not have an e-learning initiative underway, though many still recognize its potential.
Permalink | Wednesday, August 01, 2001
Audible.com: Who is the “on-line
Audible.com: Who is the "on-line learner"?What type of person chooses to pursue a degree on-line rather than in a traditional classroom? And are they confident their on-line degree will be worth anything in the marketplace? Hear this MarketplaceTech report on how high tech is changing education.
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Permalink | Wednesday, August 01, 2001
The Standard: Get With The
The Standard: Get With The Program Curl just might revolutionize the way Web sites are made. Who thinks so? Tim Berners-Lee. Curl's ubergeeks have created a programming language they claim encompasses everything HTML and Java can do, along with a browser plug-in to deliver Web content, à la Macromedia's Flash. Aiming to re-engineer the Web, they face an array of entrenched technologies. But investors have bet $52 million on its potential.Permalink | Wednesday, August 01, 2001
Fastrak-Consulting: Learning swap shop Peer-to-peer
Fastrak-Consulting: Learning swap shopPeer-to-peer technology, in the form of systems such as Napster, created a popular revolution that just for while threatened the smug complacency of the media industry and spawned talk of the next 'Internet revolution'. With Napster on the retreat in the face of a barrage of lawsuits, the P2P bandwagon may be grinding to a halt, but the potential for positive application of the power of peer-to-peer communication over networks is still alluring, not least to the e-learning industry.
Permalink | Tuesday, July 31, 2001
CNET: School’s out for virtual
CNET: School's out for virtual universityHarcourt Higher Education, which launched a much-ballyhooed online college in Massachusetts last year, is closing the school's virtual doors this fall without a single mortarboard tossed in the air.
Permalink | Tuesday, July 31, 2001
HBS Working Knowledge: Why Your
HBS Working Knowledge: Why Your Organization Isn't Learning All It ShouldWe propose that research on problem-solving behavior can provide critical insight into mechanisms through which organizations resist learning and change. In this paper, we describe typical front-line worker response to obstacles that hinder their effectiveness and argue that this pattern of behavior creates an important and overlooked barrier to organizational change.
Permalink | Tuesday, July 31, 2001
CNET: The art and innovation
CNET: The art and innovation behind a new IMLong associated with casual text-based conversations among teens and singles in America Online chat rooms, IM technology is now poised not only to gain mainstream acceptance, but to establish itself as an independent platform for a variety of communications and information-gathering applications.
Permalink | Tuesday, July 31, 2001
CNN: College courses inspired by
CNN: College courses inspired by TV showsObsessed with a favorite TV series? We've got a course you can't refuse, say many colleges and universities. Science students at Washington & Jefferson University in Washington, Pennsylvania, can learn some of the methods demonstrated on the CBS series, "CSI: Crime Scene Investigators...
Permalink | Monday, July 30, 2001
BizJournals: Online learning has its
BizJournals: Online learning has its limits, consultant says"I still think that instructor-led training will be around for a while, just because we're people creatures. I think it'd be a shame if we just relied on our computers for training without having personal interaction."
Permalink | Monday, July 30, 2001
BizJournals: Penn State offering online
BizJournals: Penn State offering online MBAPenn State University has joined the ranks of schools that are offering MBA courses online. The online master of business administration, dubbed the iMBA, launched this month.
Permalink | Monday, July 30, 2001
Red Herring: Generation now gets
Red Herring: Generation now gets up to speedDuring the first quarter of this year, while technology investors were fretting over the Nasdaq's slump, something else was happening that hadn't happened in five years: the output per hour of U.S. workers in the nonfarm business sector (the traditional measure of productivity) was lower than in the previous quarter -- 1.2 percent lower, to be exact. When word of this development got out in May, it sent economy watchers into a tizzy, reigniting long-standing arguments about whether investments in technology make companies more productive and whether these incremental improvements, in turn, produce a sustainable rate of productivity growth for the U.S. economy.
Permalink | Monday, July 30, 2001
Camworld: Just-in-Time Journalism Technology conferences
Camworld: Just-in-Time JournalismTechnology conferences and events are a natural point of origin for this new kind of "just-in-time journalism". Conference planners are now making it a point to have wireless Internet access available and those reporters with laptops and a wireless card can sit in the audience and quietly tap away, recording the event in realtime and publishing it on a web site. Delivering the information people crave, when they want it: instantly. In today's "instant access" society, on-demand information services may be just the thing to revive the current slump in online journalism and news. Think of it as a service. Perhaps even a service that people would pay for.
Permalink | Monday, July 30, 2001
USA Today: Anthropologists adapt technology
USA Today: Anthropologists adapt technology to world's culturesThink anthropologists spend their days hanging out in Pago Pago studying the local culture? Think again. Like everyone else, anthropologists and ethnographers increasingly are finding jobs with high-tech companies, using their highly developed skills as observers to study how people live, work and use technology.
Permalink | Saturday, July 28, 2001
The Chronicle: Maryland Colleges Band
The Chronicle: Maryland Colleges Band Together to Train Professors to Teach OnlineThe group, called the Faculty Online Technology Training Consortium, offered its first intensive training program last summer, putting 40 professors through nine days of training in how to teach in a virtual classroom. Those faculty members were then encouraged to go back to their institutions and instruct others in how to teach online.
Permalink | Saturday, July 28, 2001
Washington Post: Instant Messaging Isn’t
Washington Post: Instant Messaging Isn't Everyone's Next Best Thing Instant messaging -- the ability to zap text notes back and forth to people in real time -- is supposed to be the greatest thing since Coke in a can or beer in a keg. So why do so some Internet users want nothing to do with it?Permalink | Saturday, July 28, 2001
Wired: In Order to Have
Wired: In Order to Have Your AdviceIf you open an e-mail attachment, you're clueless. If you send an e-mail with an attachment, you're dumb, because only clueless people open them. That's Jon Rochmis' story, and he's sticking to it.
Permalink | Saturday, July 28, 2001
Technos: www.p2p.edu: Rip, Mix &
Technos: www.p2p.edu: Rip, Mix & Burn Your Education It's not your father's school—and it's not like yours, either. New technologies will revolutionize education with peer-to-peer intimacy, access, and speed.Permalink | Friday, July 27, 2001
ETR&D: A History of Instructional
ETR&D: A History of Instructional Design and Technology: Part II: A History of Instructional Design This part of the article focuses on the history of instructional design. Starting with a description of the efforts to develop training programs during World War II, and continuing on through the publication of some of the first instructional design models in the 1960s and 1970s, major events in the development of the instructional design process are described. Factors that have affected the field of instructional design over the last two decades, including increasing interest in cognitive psychology, microcomputers, performance technology, and constructivism, are also described.Permalink | Friday, July 27, 2001
CNET: The Webification of TV
CNET: The Webification of TV is happeningThe times are indeed a-changin'. Mainstream consumers are learning to expect more from their media. They are becoming comfortable with rich interactivity and the collage of user-driven content from multiple sources the Net is so effective at delivering. And surprisingly, TV is helping to take them there.
Permalink | Friday, July 27, 2001
NY Times: Professor Who Once
NY Times: Professor Who Once Found Isolation Online Has a Change of HeartThree years ago, Robert Kraut, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, released a shocking study of the Internet's impact. According to his findings, heavy Internet users reported increases in loneliness and depression and saw the size of their social networks decline over time... Now Dr. Kraut is causing a stir yet again. He has new data from a more recent survey that in many respects contradicts his original research.
Permalink | Friday, July 27, 2001
Intranet Journal: Can an Intranet
Intranet Journal: Can an Intranet Teach an Old Dog New Tricks? Turning Your Intranet into a TeacherThe concept of e-Learning has two hurdles: technology and attitude. In the past, potential e-Learning students were doubtful as to whether bandwidth would truly allow material to be broadcast in real-time. The images were choppy at best and the video media looked as though the instructor was moving in a giant jar of molasses in a drunken stupor. However, technological issues can always be overcome in one way or another...A more difficult boundary to overcome is how to change someone’s mindset regarding e-Learning? The problem we have is more of social engineering. What if they are unwilling or unable to adapt to the concept of talking into a microphone sitting next to their computer screen? How do you get buy-in from those who still print and file their vast stores of e-mail messages in faded manila folders?
Permalink | Thursday, July 26, 2001
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.
Permalink | Thursday, July 26, 2001
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
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’t just bop in and out of the conversation; once there, we’re committed to stay, stifling our yawns and building a mental list of all the ways our lunch companion is a self-centered bore.
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.
Permalink | Wednesday, July 25, 2001