Papers
Papers
Preparing for Intranet 2.0
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Title: Preparing for “Intranet 2.0″
Author(s): Kathleen Gilroy and Bill Ives
Publication Date: Melcrum Publishing. April 2006
Here is a pre-print version of a paper on preparing for Internet 2.0.
2006: The Year of the Aggregator
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Title: RSS Aggregators: What are they? Where have they come from? Where are they going?
Author(s): Kathleen Gilroy
Publication Date: January 2006
I believe 2006 is going to be the “year of the aggregator.” As more and more documents, news, and services become RSS-enabled, I expect to see very wide-spread adoption of desktop aggregators. To start off a new year of blogging, I am publishing the attached white paper, Aggegators: what are they, where have they come from, where are they going?
For additional information about aggegrators, please see our Learning 2.0 podcast series.
The Path to Learning 2.0
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Title: The Path to Learning 2.0
Author(s): Kathleen Gilroy
Publication Date: January 2006
After 10 years of building technology-based learning programs for professionals, the Otter Group has developed a new model for learning and information management taht takes advantage of the evolution of the world wide web from a collection of static web sites to a computing platform serving web applications. This new web is becoming known as Web 2.0.
Podcasting for Learning
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Title: Podcasting for Learning
Author(s): Aixa Almonte and Kathleen Gilroy
Publication Date: September 2006
At the Otter Group we feel we have just dipped our toes into the pool of possibilities in podcasting for learning. Since March, we've been producing the Negotiating Tip of the Week Podcast with Dr. Josh Weiss, Associate Director of the Global Negotiation Project at Harvard's Program on Negotiation, as a way to reach both a general audience and to help extend learning for participants in an elearning course we offer for a local client. “Podcasting for Learning” captures the beginning of our journey using podcasts as a new medium for learning.
Winning the Race for Knowledge Worker Productivity
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Title: Winning the Race for Knowledge Worker Productivity
Author(s): Kathleen Gilroy
Publication Date: March 5, 2005
At the Otter Group we feel we have just dipped our toes into the pool of possibilities in podcasting for learning. Since March, we've been producing the Negotiating Tip of the Week Podcast with Dr. Josh Weiss, Associate Director of the Global Negotiation Project at Harvard's Program on Negotiation, as a way to reach both a general audience and to help extend learning for participants in an elearning course we offer for a local client. “Podcasting for Learning” captures the beginning of our journey using podcasts as a new medium for learning.
Emergent Learning: What the Dean Campaign can Teach us about Online Learning
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Author(s): Kathleen Gilroy
Publication Date: December 8 , 2004 Howard Dean's use of the Internet has catapulted him into the top ranks of the Democratic candidates for President. While it is not clear that the governor of Vermont will ultimately prevail in the 2004 Democratic presidential primary and caucuses and become the party nominee, the Dean campaign's use of the Internet has been extraordinarily successful at creating a high performance learning community. And there are enormous lessons to be learned here for designers of e-learning programs for corporations and universities.
Letter to The Chronicle Review, Chronicle of Higher Education
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Title: Letter to The Chronicle Review, Chronicle of Higher Education
Author(s): Kathleen Gilroy
Publication Date: December 7, 2004
To THE EDITOR:
After working in the field of distance education for almost 20 years, I am not surprised to read that very few programs are currently making money. Almost no programs including the large and well-funded, as well as the small and experimental have any of the right ingredients for successful outcomes in terms of the educational experience or reasonable financial returns….
Collaborative E-Learning: The Right Approach
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Title: Collaborative E-Learning: The Right Approach
Author(s): Kathleen Gilroy
Publication Date: December 5, 2004
INTRODUCTION
We are at a critical moment in the evolution of e-learning. After many years of development, e-learning has become an important business process for corporations, which are now exploring how to better educate and manage their employees who rely on fresh knowledge to perform. E-learning is also at the top of the agenda of public and private universities, which are looking for ways to extend their influence and reach new types of customers. And e-learning has attracted the attention of the investment community as companies have emerged to capture market opportunities in technology, content, and services.
Designing Collaborative E-Learning for Results
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Title: Designing Collaborative E-Learning for Results
Author(s): Glen Mohr & Julia M. Nalt
Publication Date: November 6, 2003
The technologies that enable us to teach and learn online paradoxically increase our isolation.
Because we can communicate by email and over the web, we no longer need to meet face to face. The more connected we are, the more isolated we are. The connectivity/isolation paradox is manifesting itself in many aspects of our professional and personal lives and is a fundamental reason why e-learning programs can be unsatisfying to teachers and learners.
