torsdag 05. juni 2003
Text reminders for hospital appointments. Patients are to be reminded about hospital appointments by text message, in a trial due to start next month. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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File swappers learn new tricks. Novel technologies such as eDonkey and BitTorrent are making file-swapping faster and easier to use.

Unlike earlier systems the performance of the latest file-swapping software does not degrade as more people try to get hold of popular files. The newer software also makes it easier for people to find the files they are looking for. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
9:46:32 AM  #  

Apple design guru honoured. Jonathan Ive is named UK Designer of the Year for his groundbreaking work for Apple computers. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
9:36:18 AM  #  
Practitioners' Views of eLearning

In a survey of more than 350 eLearning practitioners around the globe, a solid majority of respondents (60%) said that they consider their eLearning programs to be "good" or "excellent." This result was surprising, given considerable discussion in the literature about drop-out rates and poor quality. In another somewhat surprising response, fully two-fifths of respondents (41%) say that they are using eLearning enterprisewide. (Quality and Effectiveness of eLearning) Free download of report (pdf)


9:09:17 AM  #  
Building an Inventive Organization
A creativity expert distinguishes the concept of creativity from that of innovation and discusses how to create a corporate culture that really fosters creativity

"a fellow from California tested kids at the ages of three and four. He found that almost 95 percent of the kids scored near the top of a creativity test. By the time kids get to age 14, about 60 percent score at that level. By the time they are 24 years old, only two percent score in the top two percent. Most of that loss comes from acculturation, making tradeoffs, learning to conform, learning to borrow knowledge. It doesn't come from not being creative." People are born with that. Another colleague of mine, a psychologist at Harvard, described the idea of learning as "a creative encounter with the unknown." As such, it is essential to living.


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