eGovernment: about China again

Critics Press Companies on Internet Rights Issues, by Tom Zeller Jr., NYT, November 8, 2005 (access to the site is free, first-time visitors must register).

eLearning: two experiences in large corporations

two experiences, which are going to be presented at online educa in Berlin:
eBay Online-Training (in German)
Nanfor Ibérica and Digital Simulations (in Spanish)

eLearning: "The No Significant Difference Phenomenon" website

website designed to serve as a companion piece to Thomas L. Russell's book, "The No Significant Difference Phenomenon" (2001, IDECC, fifth edition).
www.nosignificantdifference.org

eGovernment: electronic voting systems (a report by US GAO)

"Federal Efforts to Improve Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under Way, but Key Activities Need to Be Completed", Report to Congressional Requesters by GAO, United States Government Accountability Office (September 2005, in PDF).

formare per i media: le nuove professioni della comunicazione formativa

martedì 8 novembre 2005, presso l'Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, intervengo alla tavola rotonda in occasione della conclusione e consegna dei diplomi del Master in Comunicazione e Formazione e del Corso di Perfezionamento in Media Education >>>

formazione per l'amministrazione pubblica

lunedì 14 novembre 2005, a Milano, inaugurazione dell'anno formativo 2006 di I.Re.F. e seminario su "La formazione per la pubblica amministrazione: sfide e proposte": un'occasione per riflettere su un ambito formativo molto importante >>>

half of European Internet users get government information online

from eGovernment News – 28 October 2005

eLearning: the Melbourne Declaration

The text of the Melbourne Declaration and some further contextual info.

PowerPoint

Edward Tufte against the cognitive style of PowerPoint: >>>
Don Norman in defence of PowerPoint: >>>
how to make PowerPoint presentations interactive: >>>
professional templates (not so expensive): >>>

iPods & China

two articles on the subject, by Stefano Zecchi (in italiano) and Thomas Friedman (in English).

The Dawn of Digital TV

By Robert M. Rast
in IEEE Spectrum Article, October 2005.

extreme Flash

un laboratorio con alcuni esperimenti assai interessanti

Fake PageRank Detection Tool

clever: da studiare

MIT OCW's approach to evaluation

Over the course of the next month, visitors to the MIT OCW Web site will receive a pop-up window asking them to fill out a user survey. This survey, the third such annual user survey instrumented since the launch of MIT OCW in 2002, will be in effect for the next month. Results will be published on the MIT OCW Web site in early 2006.
To read more about MIT OCW's approach to evaluation

tre eventi su formazione, usabilità & eLearning

20 ottobre, a Bologna, II Convegno Nazionale AIF Pubblica Amministrazione, intervengo su:
Formazione al servizio dell'innovazione: esperienze in Regione Lombardia
programma (in PDF)

3 novembre, a Lugano, evento in occasione del world usability day, in cui parlo di Comunicazione, qualità e usabilità:
programma

20-23 novembre, a Menaggio, seminario esidenziale della Graduate School New Media in Education, in cui intervengono Etienne Wenger, Otto Peters e Stefano Tardini. Parlerò di Future trends in eLearning: a discussion
programma

Blogging in the Enterprise

a survey conducted by research firm Guidewire Group and corporate blogging solutions provider iUpload:
http://www.iupload.com/

eLearning acceptance

Eliott Masie interviews Chiara Succi, from the NewMinE Lab.

eGovernment: internet filtering in China

"China operates the most extensive, technologically sophisticated, and broad-reaching system of Internet filtering in the world. The implications of this distorted on-line information environment for China’s users are profound, and disturbing", by the Open Net Initiative.

Other coutry studies

eLearning: Blackboard and WebCT to Merge

see: Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - Oct 12, 2005, #357.

eLearning & blogs

Instructional Blogging: Promoting Interactivity, Student-Centered Learning, and Peer Input, by Stuart Glogoff.