Innovations in Online Learning: Moving Beyond No Significant Difference
"Leaders of the old paradigm community have a tremendous amount of time and energy invested in using the old rules," writes the author. ""The problem with applying old solutions to new problems in the world of online learning is that these applications tend to produce results that are 'as good as' what we have done before..." I think the findings in this paper are significant, echoing and supporting similar trends reflected elsewhere. More...
Sites Abound to Aid Do-it-yourselfers
Sites Abound to Aid Do-it-yourselfers
Another trend to be on the watch for is the increasing number of do-it-yourself learning sites. This article (sorry about the formatting) surveys a number of websites devoted to providing self learning for the motivated readeril. More...
Batten Down the Hatches! How to Protect Outlook From Attack
Batten Down the Hatches! How to Protect Outlook From Attack
Even though it's simply not safe, institutional policy requires many office workers and staff to use Microsoft Outlook for their email. More...
GeoLearning Integrates PrimeLearning.com?s Library of Online Business Skills Training Courses
GeoLearning Integrates PrimeLearning.com?s Library of Online Business Skills Training Courses
Normally I wouldn't carry a press release like this, but this is typical of items that cross my desk every day and readers should be aware of this trend. The outline is simple: PrimeLearning.com has developed about 300 hours of AICC- and SCORM-compliant online business and professional development content, and this content has been integrated into GeoLearning?s learning management system. More...
'The Future of Ideas': Protecting the Old With Copyright Law
'The Future of Ideas': Protecting the Old With Copyright Law
The New York Times meets Lawrence Lessig. This review of 'The Future of Ideas' is a bit less than kind, characterizing Lessig as an idealist and his book as a manifesto, or, more accurately, what would be a manifesto if only it were "short, rousing and to the point." While the reviewer seems to admit that Lessig has a point - that copyright lawyers are stifling innovation and creativity on the internet - he seems to feel that the book misses its mark. More...
Microsoft Device to Bridge TV, PC
Microsoft Device to Bridge TV, PC
I've concluded that Bill Gates (or someone high up in Microsoft development) reads my web page. It's hard to conclude otherwise when Microsoft's new Mira platform contains almost completely the features I've been describing for the PADs (Personal Access Devices) students will use in online learning. More...
Why Projects Fail - and What You Can Do About It
Why Projects Fail - and What You Can Do About It
A nice article that should be read by people managing online learning projects, especially large scale projects where a complex deliverable must satisfy an external client. So many institutions plan the project and then turn the development team loose, expecting a spectacular 'launch' where all the features of the fully functioning solution are unveiled. Bad plan. More...
Community Building as a Core Intranet Value
Community Building as a Core Intranet Value
Another find from this week's eLearningPost, here we have another analysis of why the web is different from other media (and why the web is giving traditional businesses all sorts of headaches). More...
Understanding the Web as Media
Understanding the Web as Media
eLearningPost digs up this nifty analysis of what media companies are doing so wrong on the net (and why they are failing). And it is because they are thinking of the web as like TV, or like magazines... but the web isn't a publishing medium. More...
KM and Human Nature
KM and Human Nature
I ask you, when's the last time you saw a water cooler in an office? Much less people standing around the water cooler exchanging tacit knowledge? OK, how about in organizations like mine, where the bulk of the staff is in an office 1000 miles away? Or even on the typical universitry campus where most of the people you work with are on another floor or in another building. More...