Quick Jump Menu

• Pre-Trip Information
• E-Business Readings
• E-Learning: Why Bother?
• E-Learning Samples

E-Business Readings 

• Impact of the Internet: " Revamping the Corporation From the Inside Out" by By Gary Hamel. Business 2.0, September 26, 2000.
  
  
• Internet B-2-B: " Danger in Numbers" By Evan I. Schwartz. Business 2.0, September 26, 2000.
  
  
• Time Bind at Work: " It's a Matter of Time" By Don Peppers and Martha Rogers . Business 2.0, September 26, 2000.
  
  
• Key Tools-The Computer, the Internet, and Ideas: " Rethink Everything" By Peter Schwartz. Business 2.0, September 26, 2000.
  
  
• Insight and Strategy for Competing Online: "CIO WebBusiness and WebMaster Archives
  
  
• "Why Virtual Teams?" by The FutureU Virtual Teams Development Group, The University of the Future, 2000.
  
  
• Books on E-Business, E-Commerce, and E-Learning
  
  
• FutureU Bookstore Aisle on "Management and the New Organization."
  
  

E-Learning: Why Bother? 

• Why invest in e-learning? by Claude Whitmyer and Gail Terry Grimes, The University of the Future, 2000.
• Is your organization ready for e-learning? by Claude Whitmyer and Gail Terry Grimes, The University of the Future, 2000.
• E-Learning for the BC Tech Industry. An opinionated monthly column by Paul Stacey exploring the current use, future potential, and commercial value of e-learning in British Columbia’s high tech sector.
  
  
• eLearning: Winning Approaches to Corporate Learning on Internet Time. by Jay Cross of The Internet Time Group. A fast paced article that presents some general, thought-provoking predictions of the future. Cross intends this article to stimulate thinking and strategy, not actually predict what will come.
  
  
• eLearning FAQ. Also from The Internet Time Group. Addresses the questions "What is eLearning?," "Does it matter?," "How does it work?," "How well does it work?," "What are the pitfalls?," "What are the trends?," and "Who are the major players?" Includes a bibliography.
  
  
• Into the Future: A Vision Paper for Association for Training and Development (ASTD) and National Governors' Association (NGA) Commission on Technology & Adult Learning by Wayne Hodgins, February 2000
  
  
• Customer-Focused E-Learning: The Drivers: By Clark Aldrich, Learning Circuits, ASTD, July 2000.
  
  
• Customer-Focused E-Learning: The Industry: By Tom Barron, Learning Circuits, ASTD, July 2000.
  
  
• Stating the Obvious: Most Training is Boring, Ineffective, or Both: By Stanley Malcolm. Written September 9, 2000 in response to Michelle Delio's report, "Online Training 'Boring'" (Wired News, August 30, 2000). Author Malcolm says "Michelle is right, as far as she goes - but we should go a lot further!"
  
  

e-Learning Samples 

Instigo (streaming audio software, synchronized with slides, graphs and charts)
FutureU (self-paced Web-Book)

On Friday, September 29, we will hear a presentation from Al Jacobsen the CEO of Instigo.com a company that provides Web-based custom corporate seminars & presentations. Instigo uses streaming audio software, synchronized slides, graphs and charts to present live trainign seminars over the Web, supplemented by real-time surveys and messaging. Instigo offers an interesting component of an e-education solution much as face-to-face learning expeditions and the unique RealChange/FutureU learning expeditions can be used as an unusually effective part of larger leadership and managment development program.

For those with a sense of adventure and a willingness to experiment with browser plug-ins, follow the link below to an Instigo demonstration and sample. This will take a little time, but it is worth a try and can also be fun.

To test your computer setup to see if it can play the Instigo sample and to practice using the Instigo software visit...

...http://www.instigo.com/tech-dem.html

To listen to an actual sample, "Encouraging the Heart - A Leaders Guide," a seminar presentation by Jim Kouzes, Chairman Emeritus of Tom Peters Organization (recorded live on the Internet and then stored for later replay) visit...

...http://www.instigo.com/cgi/playmanutan.cgi

Note: This sample will replay 3 times before your access expires.

Another form of e-learning is Web-Based Training or WBT. This is usually made up of a set of text-based lessons or learning activities that the learner can complete at a time and place convenient to them. WBT can also be used as the core content for a course that uses interaction between learners and instructor and among learners.

FutureU calls its WBT products "ebooks" and you may want to check out the sample of the first volume of our two-volume e-learner's ebook, Make the Most of E-Learning.