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...
Observations of Behaviour and Processes
Good column from Elliot Masie in which he analyzes his own online study habits (I often think self-reflective assessment is among the best - if you want to learn what students want when they study online, study online and ask yourself what you want). I especially like Masie's browse method for taking courses... start the course, and if it isn't right for you, quit. More...
Utah Student Defends Handling of AIM Security Flaw
This article raises more questions than it answers about how researchers should approach security flaws in software. The outlines of the story are straightforward: a student found a security hole in AOL's instant messenger, notified the company, was ignored, then widely publicized the breach. More...
Public Money, Private Code
If the internet were invented in a university research lab today, would it be allowed to exist? This interesting article argues that the code would be locked behind a proprietary set of private applications, and consequently, would never have become the worldwide phenomenon it is today. More...
Girls, Science and Technology
This worthy project is not useful so much for its assessments (only a few sites are assessed) as for its methodology. The authors identify eight criteria for evaluating materials with respect to gender (click on 'theory behind the research' to find them). Resources strong in these eight areas are more likely to appeal to young women than are resources weak these areas. More...
Interdisciplinary Learning in Your Classroom
It's Disney, so I reserve a certain amount of scepticism. But it reads very nicely and looks like a valuable resource for teachers. This is an online workshop about interdisciplinary learning, and includes video excerpts, transcripts, discussion forums, and descriptive vocabulary (aka 'Buzzwords'). More...
Augmenting a Home-School Education
This may not seem to be about online learning, but it is. The core of the story is this: a growing number of the two percent of American children who are home schooled are taking individual courses - such as physical education or chemistry labs - at the local public school. More...
Finding Quality Web Sites
This is a nicely written and clear article for instructors and professors looking for material on the Web to give as reading assignments for their classes. Covers some search engine basics, and more importantly, provides some good guidelines regarding the evaluation of online learning materials. More...
Is Online Learning For Me?
What I like about this online quiz is its simplicity. It took me less than a minute to answer the ten questions. Experienced educators will see what the questions are measuring; so will many students, but if they are honest with their answers the test will produce a reliable result. More...
Useful collection of sixteen links related to web site traffic analysis. Links include learning sites, background on how to analyse web site traffic reports, software sites and more. More...
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