e-Clippings 02.09.02

"Instead of building our armed forces around plans to fight this
or that country, we need to examine our vulnerabilities, asking
ourselves, as Frederick the Great did in his great general principles
of war, ``What design would I be forming if I were the enemy?'' and
then fashioning our forces, as necessary, to deter and defeat those
threats."
Remarks as Delivered by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,
National Defense University, Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., Thursday,
January 31, 2002.
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Cool Site:
Alright, so the laptop is back! HP actually did an amazing job of
having it back BEFORE they said they would and also fixing a cracked
frame on the screen without even being asked! As folks in the US Navy
are wont to say "Bravo Zulu" HP! (BZ means `well
done' -
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq101-2.htm).

So now all I have to do is dig through the backlog that accumulated
while I was sans laptop (968 items at last count). I am doing that
now and this e-Clippings is the first installment in what might be as
many as three `catch-up' clippings. I did want to go ahead
and get this one out though since there are so many great articles in
it.

Anyway – thanks for the patience and understanding and I am
really glad that this little mishap gave me the opportunity to start
dialog with some of you which probably would not have happened
otherwise.

Thanks and read on!
Mark Oehlert, Editor
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Business Week: Education: A NEW PUSH TO PRIVATIZE
Even in this difficult environment, many companies in the for-profit
education arena are succeeding. Eduventures, a Boston researcher,
expects the $113 billion for-profit sector to grow 5% this year--far
faster than education or the economy as a whole.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_02/b3765689.htm

Knowledge Business: IDC PREDICTS STRONG E-LEARNING GROWTH
According to IDC, the technology and e-business consultants, the
global e-learning corporate market will reach $23.1 billion in 2004.
The forecast represents a 70% compound rate of growth from a 1999
base of $1.78 billion.
http://www.knowledgebusiness.com/resource/news_read.asp?id=817

CIO: THE WORLD'S BIGGEST CLASSROOM
Between October 2000 and February 2001, more than 40,000 employees
took and passed the course—a two-hour overview and a four-hour
class in their native language—and Dow saved nearly $2.7 million
in the process. It saved $162,000 on manual record-keeping of class
completions, $300,000 on classroom facilities and trainers, $1
million on course handouts and $1.2 million in salary savings, thanks
to shorter training time.
http://www.cio.com/archive/020102/dow.html


The Chronicle: ARMY'S HUGE DISTANCE-EDUCATION EFFORT WINS MANY
SUPPORTERS IN ITS FIRST YEAR
In just over 12 months, eArmyU has gone from plans on paper to
offering more than 90 degree programs from 23 colleges and
universities to soldiers...The Army hired the consulting firm
PricewaterhouseCoopers to act as the "integrator," or middle man, in
its dealings with the colleges. The firm is working with 12
technology and distance-education companies to run the portal, which
is expected to more than double the number of soldiers it handles in
2002 and serve 80,000 worldwide by 2005.
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i22/22a03301.htm

Nua Internet Surveys: ELEARNING TO PICK UP IN EUROPE
Over twenty-seven percent of business skills training in Europe will
be provided via elearning by 2005, according to IDC.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905357583&rel=true

Taipei Times: HIGHER EDUCATION FINDS `E-LEARNING' AN ATTRACTIVE TOOL
Web-based instruction models are being applied by increasing numbers
of universities and colleges in Taiwan, with 124 credit-granting e-
learning courses being offered at the university and college level
for the 2001 school year, according to an education official.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2002/01/29/story/0000121873

Guardian Unlimited: E-LEARNING TASKFORCE LAUNCHED
The group will bring together representatives from further education
colleges, voluntary organisations, government and industry to
investigate ways of exploiting on-line education in further education.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,642535,00.html

Internet.com: ARMY REPLACES BLACKBOARD AND CHALK WITH BYTES AND CHIPS
Once the domain of universities, technology based training (TBT) is
being adopted by The Australian Army to train recruits. Flexible,
less resource intensive and easy to deploy, TBT is ideal for military
purposes.
http://australia.internet.com/r/article/jsp/sid/11512

Belfast Telegraph: E-LEARNING GOOD NEWS ALL ROUND
Mark Langhammer, head of learndirect in Northern Ireland, insisted
online learning was the key to addressing the province's basic skills
deficit and boosting individuals' employability...
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/todaytext/jan25/Features/zjob3.shtml

Learning Circuits: MISSION: BUY AN LMS
If your organization has bought into the notion of learning as a
strategic initiative--and many leading companies have--your next
challenge is to select and implement a learning management system.
Here's how.
http://www.learningcircuits.com/2002/jan2002/moran.html

Yahoo!: NIIT IN ALLIANCE WITH U.S.-CLICK2LEARN
NIIT Ltd, a leading Indian computer education firm, on Wednesday said
it has formed a strategic alliance with U.S.-based e-learning
solutions firm Click2learn and sees business worth $15 million in two
years.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020123/bom60695_1.html

WIRED: ED-TECH IS NOT TECH BUT ED
The new director of the Office of Educational Technology for the
Department of Education sees technology as a tool, but teaching as
the goal. "Every technology program should be about education...
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,49768,00.html


TRENDS SECTION

Clive Shepherd: IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT E-LEARNER
It's becoming common knowledge that e-learning is achieving
inconsistent results. Some e-learners thrive on the increased
flexibility and control that the medium provides; others wallow in
isolation, struggling to make a start. In this article, Clive
Shepherd examines the notion that some people are more suited to e-
learning than others, while not discarding the idea that e-learning
could be developed to become a medium for the masses.
http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk/tactix/Features/elearner.htm

Online Learning Magzine: TEN WAYS TO STRETCH A DOLLAR
Budget slashed? Projects stalled? Here's how you can be an e-learning
champion in cost-conscious times...
http://www.onlinelearningmag.com/onlinelearning/magazine/article_displ
ay.jsp?vnu_content_id=1278806

CTHEORY.NET: THE MYTH OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGEAS AN INTERACTIVE UTOPIA
Marshall McLuhan's vision of the "global village" had a Second Coming
with the internet surge of the 1990s. There is sharply divided
opinion, however, on the question of McLuhan's broader relevance to
the cultural morphology of our times. It is easy enough to agree with
McLuhan that high tech vastly extends our senses. But his suggestion
that this development liquidates spatial boundaries --and thus
belongs to humanity, not just to the world's elites--is far more
controversial. Some doubt that the New Economy edition of McLuhan's
medium-is-the-message technologism can survive the collapse of
America's economic bubble. Others wonder how long the global village
myth can be sustained in the face of a widening gap between rich and
poor nations, and between the rich and poor inside those nations.
http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=327

WIRED: WORKING ON THE FUTURE WORKERS
As workers find they need to look after their own career paths,
continuous training will become more essential... learning will cease
to be something delivered in chunks called 'classes' and become more
something delivered when you need it" by computer 'bots that will
keep track of what a person has already mastered. The changing nature
of the workplace -- and the employee -- in the corporate world is
hashed out at a conference focused on human resource policies for the
21st century.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50053,00.html

The Chronicle: COLLEGES TAILOR ONLINE DEGREES FOR INDIVIDUAL
COMPANIES
Colleges and large corporations are starting to collaborate on the
creation of online graduate-degree programs that meet specific needs
of the companies. The programs are created from existing graduate
degrees, except the course content is altered so that the students
learn by working on real projects for their company.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/01/2002012801u.htm

Fast Company: GET WITH THE PROGRAM: SMART STRATEGIES FOR ONLINE
TEACHING
A startup with real vision, class.com is reinventing teaching for the
21st century. Corporate trainers would do well to watch how high-
school kids learn online.
http://www.fastcompany.com/launch/launch_feature/class.html

e-Learning Professional: WORLD'S FIRST COMPREHENSIVE
CERTIFICATION PROGRAMME FOR E-LEARNING PROFESSIONALS
The Certified e-Learning Professional Programme (CeLP) consists of
more than 300 learner hours of online, self-paced study materials
designed for collaborative learning with online tutorial support.
CeLP is designed to cater for the needs of anyone involved in the
fast developing world of e-Learning. Certification tracks are
available for: e-Learning Consultants, e-Learning Developers, e-
Learning Tutors and e-Learning Managers. The Certificate programme
may then be complemented by a number of electives that broaden the
candidate's knowledge and skills in order to gain a full Diploma
in e-Learning.
http://www.elearningprofessional.com/press/article.asp?pressroomid=26

* elearningpost (March 2001): Donald Norman on learner-centered design
http://www.elearningpost.com/elthemes/norman.asp

eLearn Magazine: USABILITY-TESTED E-LEARNING? NOT UNTIL THE MARKET
REQUIRES IT
The usability standards and tests that have proven their worthiness
for e-commerce and other applications need to be tweaked a bit before
being applied to e-learning--tools for streamlining a site so someone
can book a flight with ease aren't directly applicable to making
an online biology class navigable and engaging, for example. For e-
learning, "usability is not the major issue: learnability is," says
Don Norman, a professor of computer science at Northwestern
University...
http://www.elearnmag.org/index.cfm

WIRED: ALASKA: ONE HUGE CLASSROOM
Watching scientists do experiments, then getting to ask questions
directly, might be more engaging than opening a book.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,50168,00.html

eLearn Magazine: CHANGE COMES HARD
Some of the nation's most distinguished faculty members lead the
opposition to online education. The resistance of prestigious
colleges and their faculty members to e-learning follows a familiar
pattern in the history of new and user-friendly technology. I call
this sequence of events the "PC Pattern."
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?
article_pk=3382&page_number_nb=1&title=COLUMN

EMERGING TECH SECTION

CETIS: MICROSOFT RELEASE LRN 3.0 TOOLKIT, SUPPORTING IMS CONTENT
PACKAGING, IMS METADATA AND SCORM
Microsoft has released a new Toolkit for working with content
packages and metadata, and initial reactions by users have been very
positive.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20020124133700/viewArticle

CETIS: TOOLS FOR IMPLEMENTORS
A good way to get an understanding of standards and specifications in
eLearning is to try using them – and for that you need some tools
to work with. Thankfully, there are other universities and colleges
doing exactly the same thing, and have built their own toolkits you
can use to get you started.
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content/20020130115635/viewArticle

Learning Circuits: PEER-TO-PEER: THE NEXT HOT TREND IN E-LEARNING?
P2P networks combine tools that are already available, such as
Internet search engines, discussion boards, and email, into shared
spaces that aren't necessarily controlled by a central resource. P2P
offers a great deal of potential for workgroup collaboration,
communities of practice, and informal self-directed learning, but
it's a tool that needs to be used by self-motivated teams in order
for the advantages to be realized. For now, the jury is still out on
whether P2P will become a ubiquitous collaboration tool or a trend
that will fall out of favor when the next hot technology comes along.
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2002/jan2002/hofmann.html

DM Review: META DATA REPOSITORIES: WHERE WE'VE BEEN AND WHERE WE'RE
GOING
A review of the history of meta data repositories helps to understand
their role and highlights the need for companies to manage corporate
knowledge.
http://www.dmreview.com/master.cfm?NavID=193&EdID=4612


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