eLearning in the News
Just for fun and totally fabricated: ACM’s new president, Wendy Hall, a longtime advocate of e-learning, told me she had a new vision for eLearn Magazine. I flew to London where we met for afternoon tea at the Ritz. Wendy, […]
Rating Professors
Only 2 percent of respondents in a Harris poll changed physicians based on online ratings. I have yet to find anyone who made a course choice based on sites like RateMyProfessors.com. Word of mouth, which often occurs through social networking, […]
Is Your Course Hot or Not?
You just developed an online course and everyone loves it, right? While you might believe that your students never doze off or take a break to play a game, do you really know? Most people I asked who develop online […]
Learning Workplace Survival Skills
While “workplace survival” conjures up images of moose hunting in Alaska (sorry, I’ve listened to too much election coverage), in fact, many of the skills that are needed to succeed in the workplace are never taught. I thought about this […]
What Employees Really Do Online Revisited
“Workers are increasingly using the Internet to do, well, whatever they want,” was a key finding from a study reported in today’s Wall Street Journal. Accessing video is one of the most common online activities of employees, not surprisingly. While […]