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Greetings!
As reported last month, don't forget about the
upcoming Innovations in eLearning Symposium
http://innovationsinelearning.gmu.edu
on June 7th
and 8th. Also, the deadline for PCD Awards
submissions has been extended to 15 June. Click
here for details!
Workflow Learning is becoming a must for the serious
organization. The Workflow Institute is therefore
offering two exciting services: Workflow Workshops
and Worflow Assessment. The Workflow
Workshop (WW)
is a variable, customizable engagement designed to
suit the needs of your organization. It includes the
latest and greatest in terms of vision,
infrastructure, tools and techniques for creating
workflow learning objects and infrastructure.
Because workflow learning is in many respects
synonymous with process-centric performance support,
the workshop content includes EPSScentral's PCD
lifecycle, case studies, ROI calculations and much
more!
The WW can be tailored as an action-packed one day
overview, a four-day comprehensive workshop that
dovetails with a real organizational workflow
initiative - and anything in between. Options
include WWbasic (one day), WWintermediate (two to
three days), WWadvanced (four-day intense,
culminating in Level 1 Workflow Institute
Certification), WWmastery (WWadvanced within a real
workflow learning project through deployment and
earns Level 2 Workflow Institute Certification),
WWguru (WWmastery plus comprehensive evaluation and
maintenance events, where Level 3 Workflow Institute
Certification is awarded).
Workflow Assessment (WA) is a no-nonsense two-day
engagement to assess gaps between where your
organization is today and that of a world-class,
performance-centered workflow learning organization.
We will assess your technology infrastructure,
competency and performance paradigms,
performance-centeredness, workflow enablers and
organizational readiness. On the basis of data
collected and evaluated we will make recommendations
for next steps, plot time lines, recommend
technologies and techniques and create a living
roadmap to a workflow-enabled organization.
Contact Workflow Institute Fellow Gary Dickelman at
1-703-622-9747 (info@epsscentral.info)
for further
information on WW and WA.
Why WW and WA? Because, as Thomas Friedman points
out, "The World is Flat" - and Workflow Software is
one of the flatteners. Organizations from IBM to
UPS to small specialty product/service companies
have embraced the workflow notion and have gone
global. Small organizations act big and big
organizations project a smaller, gentler image - all
in the name of globalization and flattening. The
Workflow Institute is responding to this business
imperative and thus offering Workflow Workshops and
Workflow Assessment.
Regards,
Gary Dickelman
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| Improving Usability: Principles and Steps for Better Software |
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When many people think of usability, they think of
"interface guidelines." Guidelines are a key element
to any solid approach to software usability.
However, I find that they are dwarfed in importance
compared to open and intelligent engagement in
design. There is simply no list of rules that can,
by itself, make software usable. In the end, it
comes down to smart people paying attention to the
right things. On the other hand, it is not always
clear what these important things are. Even roughly
following a good design process can avoid common
mishaps. In the first section, I discuss several
principles of good design. In the second, I suggest
a practical design process.
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| Evaluating the Development of Online Course Materials |
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If online courses are to become a permanent feature
of higher education-not merely a fad of the dot-com
era-college faculty must believe that developing
online materials has academic value. In addition,
such online education requires certain resources to
be in place.
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| Paying Attention to Attention |
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One of the more significant challenges we face in
online learning is climbing the wall that blocks our
view of learners responding to a course. In a
classroom we can see who is making eye contact,
nodding in agreement, or sighing with frustration.
Above all, in a classroom, you can (usually) tell if
somebody is tuning out. Without these cues, we are
really just speaking into the void, hoping somebody
hears us.
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| What Makes Users Unhappy: Share-Point Team Services Web Server Security |
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Computer & Internet Security is very important but
sometimes it is so confusing and frustrating that it
makes users very unhappy- to a point where the
system is so secure that it cannot be used by its
most legitimate users, like system administrators.
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| The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2005 |
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June 7th - 11th
The theme of JCDL2005 highlights the powerful role
of digital libraries as cyberinfrastructure. This
cyberinfrastructure has the potential to engender
the creation of powerful new tools, research
methodologies, and processes that will enable
scientists and learners to investigate the natural
world, the social world, and the human-built
environment in new and previously unimaginable ways.
As global interests in computation, information
management, networking, and intelligent sensing
converge, the conduct of research and education will
be transformed.
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EPSScentral Announces Recipients of 2007 PCD Awards
