Central Desktop‘s Adam McKibbin has written a very good summary of the debate raging on Twitter and in blogs about telecommuting. For a while now, I’ve been under the impression that flextime and telecommuting were the new way to work and their wide acceptance meant that the question of whether or not to let employees [...]
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer cracks down on work-from-home policy
By claudew on March 28, 2013 in flextime, online meetings, technology, telecommuting, virtual community, virtual meetings, web meetings
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Strategy, Planning, Implementation for Collaboration Across Distance
By claudew on February 28, 2013 in online community, online events, online meetings, technology, virtual community, virtual meetings, web meetings
To get off the drawing table, most projects must qualify with at least these three prerequisites: High-level executive sponsorship: To avoid turf wars and provided permission for resource allocation. Sufficient resource allocation: To make sure the project will have a budget, staff and any tangible assets that are required. Stakeholder inclusion: To [...]
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Twelve Great Tips for Better Real-Time Meetings On the Web
In my last post I talked about Eight Great Tips for Better Phone Meetings, focusing on things you can do when you the only technology you’re using is a telephone. Those tips, of course, apply to any audio exchange, whether it be landlines, Internet phones, cell phones, or voice over the Internet on your computer. [...]
Eight Great Tips for Better Phone Meetings
Probably the most common tool used for real-time meetings where everyone is NOT in the same room is the telephone. Even when most people ARE in the room, you’ll often have others joining by speaker phone in the center of the meeting room table. More and more these days, folks are opting for staying at [...]
Canvas-New, Open Source Web2.0 LMS from Instructure
If you haven’t already, you must check out the CANVAS learning and course management offering from Instructure. Finally, an LMS/CMS that is truly 21st century. This is a “starting over” from the ground up technology using Linux, Apache, Ruby, and PostgreSQL as the primary programming stack allowing maximum leveraging of HTML5, jQuery and OAuth. It [...]
Continuing Ed directors: Here’s why your job is so important.
By claudew on April 4, 2011 in adult education, continuing education, elearning, student preparedness, student retention
According to a recent analysis of 1,400 colleges and universities by the Chronicle of Higher Education, one-third of four-year institutions experienced lower graduation rates over the six-year period ending in 2008. Late last week a thought-provoking post appeared in Daniel Luzer’s Washington Monthly column “College Guide” that may provide an interesting perspective about this problem–one [...]
Poor Quality Content in Online College Courses
What’s your take on the quality of content in online courses? For the first post in this blog (and emailed to the subscribers’ list), I found three unusually valuable blog postings you may want to check out all related to the quality of the content commonly found in online or blended courses. The one that [...]
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