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  • Information overload: Is it time for a data diet?
    Perfect Union CW Report: Learn-Fast Guide: Software as a Service is Growing Up ... From Laggard to Leader: Transforming the Data Center Googles ... Learn-Fast Guide: Software as a Service is Growing Up ... Platform on Dell Servers. Learn more. Ever been to a virtual conference? Introducing ... defending your systems easier. Learn how at easyeasier.com Defy the laws of ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - Comments
  • Google Reader in Plain English
    Yet another great video from CommonCraft.  This one about Google Reader: Google Reader is currently in joint 3rd position (with Skype) on the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008 list.  Read why it is so popular here.  And because of this , It's also one of the 25 Tools every learning professional should have in their toolbox.
    Jane Knight - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - Comments
  • RSS: The New Learning Pipeline - Online Forum Session, Sept. 18th
    I will be giving a session during next month's Online Forum: Implementing e-Learning 2.0 Technologies. My session is titled RSS: The New Learning Pipeline. Clear your calendar for the 18th and 19th of September. Its going to be fun!!!I ... to know what it is, as an e-Learning designer/developer/manager it is critical that you understand how it works and how ... instead of mixing it into a larger e-Learning 2.0 conversation. For 1 hour we can figure it all out and you will be on your ... on some links for me to test out the "goal" feature of Google Analytics. So, click HERE, click HERE.
  • Performance Support
    ... instead of forcing them to memorize it? Thatâ¬"s how we use Google and corporate wikis and instant messenger. Gloria [Gery ... ePerformance back in 2003. These resources are rich information bases, expertise locators, learning enablers, etc. But ... , the greatest leverage in corporate learning comes from building on-going, largely self-sustaining learning processes. This process orientation focuses on the organizationâ¬"s architecture for learning, a platform a level above its training programs and regulated events. The learnscape is a foundation for learning that is self-service, ...
    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - Comments
  • Super Conductivity Lectures from Cambridge University
    Engineering Learning Wiki physics and materials section . All the courses have also been indexed in my Google ...
    eContent - Sunday, August 24, 2008 - Comments
  • Google isn't making us stupid - it is challenging our design
    ... about,  the piece that Kuhlmann wrote is entitled "Is Google making our e-learning stupid?" and is a play on a piece by Nicholas Carr that appeared in the Atlantic Montly entitled "Is Google making us stupid?" Bear with ... learning and practicing the craft of reading play an important part in shaping the neural circuits inside our brains." ... Paul Gee's book What Video Games Can Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Important work there on how to understand games as another form of literacy - as you read, just substitute Google for games and you'll get the idea that different ...
    e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - Comments
  • Innovating in the Corporate Environment
    ... portal or the MS Office suite of products. Compare and contrast these examples to the Google user interface. I suspect ... Wharton management and strategy podcasts . along with Dartmouth, Insead, Stanford and Harvard via my custom Google search engine / RSS viewer. I also maintain an engineering podcast wiki section as part of the Engineering Learning Wiki.
    eContent - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - Comments
  • Bottom-up Learning, Design, & Learning
    ... appropriate knowledge and skills. Is Google Making Our E-Learning Stupid? - The Rapid eLearning Blog Instructional ... Click picture for Flickr view. Bottom-up learning - e.learning age Bottom-up learning occurs because employees want ... Employees Learn in 2008 - The MASIE Cente Employees today are learning how to do their jobs very differently! e-Learning, on-line Video, Social Networks and other Informal methods are now options for learning, in addition to more ... the world provides a profile of how employees currently learn at work and how their learning preferences are changing.
    Big Dog, Little Dog - Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - Comments
  • ProProfs Quiz School
    A new version of ProProfs QuizSchool is available.  New features include:Brand new user interface, completely revamped for ease of use. Social sharing through customizable widgets which allow YouTube-style quiz embedding on any blog, e-learning system, and social networks like Facebook. Yahoo Flickr integration for a limitless image library for quizzes. Interesting aggregate analytics & trends reports, with precision down to a stored snapshot of each attempt. Google Maps integration for visualization of where quiz takers are located worldwide. Customization controls for ...
    Jane Knight - Friday, August 15, 2008 - Comments
  • Enginering Learning Custom Search
    The utilization of the Engineering Learning Wiki has been fantastic. Thus, you've challenged me to increase the ... constructed using Google Custom Search (see my tutorial on building search engines). The new index includes all Engineering Learning Wiki pages, the root page of all wiki linked sites, and is updated automatically as wiki users add new content. I've embedded the code in this post to allow you to sample the search engine: Engineering Learning Wiki Site Search:   Remember, the wiki also has four other custom engineering learning search engines: Courses ...
    eContent - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - Comments
  • Things Worth Reading
    Currently, I have a mess of half-formed ideas, a couple of ugly projects, and more than a little activity in my personal life. I suspect when this phase finishes, I will have another batch of blog posts.In the meantime, I found these in my Google Reader:From Cognitive Edge - a discussion on working together and sharing information across "silos". The mistake a lot of people make is to assume that people want a lot of messy experiential data synthesized into best practice ... to how they would apply the information in the real world, the better the learning experience. Quiz questions are ...
    In the Middle of the Curve - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - Comments
  • Engineering Design Software Tools Tutorials
    I've been tweaking my Google Alerts, and via that research I've found some excellant tutorials which will assist the design engineer who uses many of the leading software tools. I intend to add each tutorial to the Engineering Learning Wiki's engineering design tools section, and will posted my own updated tutorial later this week on how to use Google Alert. Stay tuned ... Ansoft Microwave and Electromagnetic Tutorials ANSYS Short Course  - Cornell University ANSYS Tutorials - University of Alberta MATLAB Basics - Purdue and Cambridge University Simulink Basics - Purdue ...
    eContent - Monday, August 11, 2008 - Comments
  • Top 10 Tools: more entries and updates on the Top 100 Tools list
    More Top 10 Tools lists this week: Updated lists from Clive Shepherd (the well-known learning ... Development Campus initiative at NIIT, New Delhi, India, Britt Watwood (the online learning ... -Learning contact for his part of the province of Ontario in Canada) New lists from: Mary Cooch ... coordinator at the Institute of TropicalMedicine in Antwerp) a Learning Consultant in Switzerland and a Learning & ... 100 Tools for Learning,  for instance: the entry onto the list of mobile tools and services (like ...
    Jane Knight - Friday, August 8, 2008 - Comments
  • LabView Learning at Middle C
    ... may wish to see my prior post about the Rogarian Accordion Festival. You'll find some nice music. Use Google and you ... been added to the electrical engineering section of the Engineering Learning Wiki (and are indexed in the courses search engine). Although this post has been about LabView and music, via Professor Doering Rose-Hulman profile, I learned about CLEO (Circuits Learning by Example). This service has over 250 examples covering a two-semester ...
    eContent - Thursday, August 7, 2008 - Comments
  • Need Innovation? Ask R2-D2 and C-3PO!
    This blog often focuses upon engineering learning content. Without innovation within your engineering design groups, it's debatable how long your company will survive. If you need to encourage better understanding of the innovation process, and it's potential roadblocks, download and listen to this podcast. The source (Harvard's IdeaCast) and ... provides a link to the most recent episode.. Engineering Learning Wiki: Podcast Section Here you've find links to the top engineering and management podcasts, once again with an embedded custom built Google search engine. (click for ...
    eContent - Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - Comments
  • Google Website Optimizer 101 | Free Tips | Conversion Rate Experts
    Us Contact Us Home » Free Reports » Google Website Optimizer 101 digg_url = http://digg.com/tech_news/101_Ways_to_use_Google_s_New_Website_Optimizer; Google Website ... your horses, what does Google Website Optimizer do? If you had two possible headlines for your page and you couldnâ??t ... the other half would be shown Headline B. You could then count up which headline brought you the most orders. Google Website Optimizer lets you carry out tests like this. However, tests like this often take several weeks to finish. Google ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Monday, August 4, 2008 - Comments
  • More on elearning 2.0 SOA
    Complexity vs easily changed: I’m an etutor or a teacher, I’ve already packed the learning (how the hell can you pack learning?) (oh yes, because there are learning objects…) or, what’s worse, the system makes me ... anyone, I do mean ‘anyone’…belonging to the learning community. 6. Predetermined uses vs unintended uses ... block a water trail, it’ll eventually work its way out… 7. Non-social vs social: The entire learning ... the walls…And I mean, intermingled. I remember the building where I used to “learn” during my ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Monday, August 4, 2008 - Comments
  • Time-waster mail
    SDI sent me an email. SDI? I have no idea who is writing me. The Strategic Defense Initiative? The Steel Door Institute? Scottish Development International? The email is virtually content-free: SDI is pleased to announce that our SDI Web Support (SWS) System has undergone a redesign.  While building the new interface, emphasis was placed on creating a leading-edge system that seamlessly weds functionality and usability within a sleek design.  Further, in order to minimize any learning curve, the basic site features have remained the same. Googling SDI’s address and so forth led to ...
    Internet Time - Saturday, August 2, 2008 - Comments
  • Eight Ways to Get Users to Fill Out Their Profiles - ReadWriteWeb
    ... done well. We hope youll share your favorite strategies in comments so we can all learn about more ways to tackle this ... . Posted by: Ben Tremblay | August 1, 2008 6:00 PM Had a convo with kevin marks of Google yesterday ... JOBS POPULAR TAGS google facebook twitter microsoft ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Saturday, August 2, 2008 - Comments
  • Evolving the Infrastructure for Technology-Enhanced Distance Learning
    ... media print { .mmenu { position:absolute; display: none; } } Advanced Search CS Search   Google ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • ''s Productivity | OEDb
    ... raquo; Home » Library » Beginning Online Learning » Top 25 Web 2.0 Apps to Improve a Students or ... every thing with a variety of task management applications. Google Calendar.Google Calendar has its interface annoyances ... time. Google Docs and Spreadsheets.Docs and Spreadsheets is Googles Web-based answer to Microsofts famous MS Office ... subscribed to. Your subscription list can be organized into folders. Alternatives: Newsgator Online Edition. Google ... beauty of Google Reader is that if you use Googles GMail e-mail client (see below), you can integrate Google Reader into ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • Corporate Training & e-Learning Blog
    Corporate Training & e-Learning Blog July 17, 2008 ... business skills can be explained/taught but not effectively learned through mere discussion/lecture, such as being able to manage. You can learn a lot about management, but that doesnt mean you will be any good at doing it. "No amount of ... kinds of skills need to be learned slowly and by doing/practicing them, not just learning about them.Training should only ... The "Value" of Learning? Company business units all over are ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • Choice Learning - Knocking down the LMS Walls
    ... skip to main | skip to sidebar Choice Learning The design and development of learning environments that ensure learners have the freedom of access and the freedom to choose what, where, when, how to learn, and who to share that learning with - that is the purpose of this blog. Thursday, July 19, 2007 Knocking down the ... and open learning accesss - that is the use of web based interactive communications technology to deliver distance learning. The predominant tool used to date has been the Learning Management System which primarily just recreates ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • JISC e-Learning Focus - Welcome to JISC e-Learning Focus
    E-LEARNING PROGRAMME ... for Lifelong Learning ... Learning Resources and Activities ... Enhanced Learning Environments ... Learning ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • NAIS 2007: Digital Native
    ... is the possibility that students are developing different methods of learning and that we should adjust our pedagogy to ... How to: Podcasting Learning Object: This is a learning object was created as an ... - RSS Resources How to: RSS Feed Learning Object: This learning object was created to instruct about RSS feeds and how to create one in the WebCT 4.X environment. You can ... Feedster: This is a search engine for RSS feeds Google ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • Dr. Mashup; or, Why Educators Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Remix
    Number 4, July/August 2007 > Dr. Mashup; or, Why Educators Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Remix Dr. Mashup; or, Why Educators Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Remix Added by the ... /). EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 4 (July/August 2007): 12–25 Dr. Mashup; or, Why Educators Should Learn to Stop ... University of British Columbias Office of Learning Technology and is a Research Fellow with Utah State Universitys Center for Open and Sustainable Learning. He posts ill-tempered ramblings on social learning, open education and unrelated matters ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • Mashups: The new breed of Web app
    ... it.Building Web service applications with the Google API (Nicholas Chase, developerWorks, May 2002): Learn to embed ... Chicago Police Departments online database with cartography from Google Maps. Users can interact with the mashup site, such ... graphically using maps. One of the big catalysts for the advent of mashups was Googles introduction of its Google Maps ... tools such as BizRate, PriceGrabber, MySimon, and Googles Froogle used combinations of business-to-business (b2b ... providers are Google and the Chicago Police Department. To facilitate data retrieval, providers often expose their ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • Web 2.0: Big app on campus | CNET News.com
    The ABCs of learning online July 9, 2007 ... problems. "The theory is that lecturing is not an effective way for everyone to learn, but if you make a student create, they learn an incredible amount. Thats the whole idea with changing this paradigm," said Knauff. Old school meets ... analyst at Forrester Research who follows learning trends at universities and corporations. "That interaction between ... - Learning ...
    delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments
  • I do not work in the nude and other issues with working (and learning) online | Janet Clarey
    Google Blog growing changing learning creating Half an Hour Harold Jarche Helen Keegan Helge Scherlund’s eLearning ... Recent Posts Unlearning day What to do while attending a boring online learning event: stealth learning How hard is it for you to balance innovation and execution? New Distributed 3D Virtual Environment w/ Instructional Potential: Google Lively When training is not the solution and chips are cakes ... online learning event: stealth learningJanet Clarey on How hard is it for you to balan