eLearning works for some topics, but not all.

Gotta love the way researchers make things so clear and compelling: “The analysis resulted in an overall weighted effect size not significantly different from zero….” The bottom line being, "distance education is as effective as classroom instruction." Well, at least it's a study that you can cite when the C-Level demands proof that the investment in eLearning will pay off.

Study: E-Learning Implications - Craig Ullman, techLearning.  [Online Learning Update]

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What's an online degree worth?

Online learning gains ground  but do employers trust it? [Online Learning Update]

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Is the Internet a reliable learning platform?

The Weakest Link in Distributed Education. [XplanaZine]

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WebEx: WebOffice collaboration software suite launches into the SMB market.

WebEx attacks SMB collaboration market.

(InfoWorld) - One month after closing its acquisition of Intranets.com, WebEx Communications is launching an updated, rebranded version of Intranets.com's hosted collaboration software suite, a move aimed at expanding WebEx's share of the SMB (small and medium business) market before Microsoft conquers the space. [More] By Stacy_Cowley@idg.com (Stacy Cowley). [InfoWorld: Top News]

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Geeks are out, common sense is in.

Skills shortage is back. It's all about convergence [The Register]

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Results-Oriented UI: WYGIWYS.

Wiggy-wiz? Wot U Get Iz Wot U C? Can that be right? If the new Office 12 UI becomes the standard, users will specify the outcome they want, and watch it morph as they select different views or different outcomes.

Watch for serious changes in the way we build on-line learning as the dominant user interface metaphors change, on top of our changes in the way we understand learning.

Useit.Com: R.I.P. WYSIWYG. For the last twenty-five years, one user interface style has reigned supreme: the Macintosh-style graphical user interface. It's now reached its limits, however, and will be replaced by a style that partly reverses some of its most treasured interaction principles. [Tomalak's Realm]

Danny Ayers has a different take on this:

Maybe the new Office UI isn't the answer, exactly. (He doesn't like wasted space combined with ugly toolbar clutter.)

The Emporer’s New UI. I just stumbled on this: R.I.P. WYSIWYG - Results-Oriented UI Coming from Jakob Nielsen. Interesting, but the main app cited featuring this result-orientation, MS Office 12, seem rather disappointing. The tabbing of commands does look good (er, not unlike like horizontal menus). But it still seems to fail ... [Raw]

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