Chris Zirkle and ITE Department Featured in International Publication
Chris Zirkle, faculty in the Department of Industrial Technology
Education, has been selected to have a case study about ISU's Human
Resource Development Program included in an upcoming book published by
the International Association for Human Resource Information
Management (IHRIM). IHRIM is the leading international association
for the integration of information technology and human resource
management. There are more than 6,000 IHRIM members worldwide.
Dr. Zirkle's case study entitled "Conducting a University Human Resource
Development Degree Program through Multiple Technology Delivery
Modes" will be published in IHRIM's new book on e-Learning. The
book will examine such issues as:
- e-Learning technologies - today and in the future
- e-Learning versus tradition learning formats - benefits and
disadvantages of both and their role in the workplace
- How to cost justify implementing an e-Learning program
- Advantages and disadvantages of e-Learning
- How to measure the effectiveness of e-Learning
- Effective e-Learning strategies
The book is to be published in November 2000.
Etcetera, Etcetera, Etcetera: ISU News, Interesting Links and So Forth
www.firstgov.gov is an easy-to-use portal to over
27 million government web pages. Topics include:
arts and culture, libraries and references, federal
student loans, money and taxes, campsites at national
parks, learning and jobs, and business and economy.
The goal of this new site is to reduce the time
Americans spend standing in line at government office.
Source: New York Times (Sep 2000)
Carnegie Mellon University is offering an online
Computer Programming Skill Certification Program in
India. Courses will be delivered to more than
190 computer centers across India using Dishnet DSL,
which offers high-speed access. Enrollments? 15,000
initially, with plans to train over 100,000 people within
two years.
Source: Syllabus News, Trends, and Resources (Sep 2000)
The Favorite Poem Project invites you to submit your
favorite poem. Your contribution will become part of
"...an important cultural record - a database of American
favorites" and will be considered in future plans for
print, video, audio, or online applications. Complete the
online submission form at www.favoritepoem.org/text.html
Source: Favorite Poem Project Listserv (Sep 2000)
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century,
a New York Public Library site, contains texts and
illustrations of more than 50 works of poetry and prose
written by African American women of the 19th Century.
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/
According to a study by Darnel M. West, a Brown
University professor, only 278 of 1,813 state and
federal web sites reviewed provided disability access.
Other studies indicate that only 24 percent of the
country's 54 million people with disabilities have
access to a computer, compared with 52 percent of
those without disabilities. In an effort to bridge
this "digital divide," President Clinton announced that
the Department of Education will provide $16 million in
grants to make cyberspace more accessible.
Source: New York Times (Sep 22, 2000)
Browse Indiana State University's new online
Non-Credit Catalog at http://web.indstate.edu/noncredit
The New York City Board of Education wants to provide
laptop computers to all 750,000 NYC students in grades
4-12. The proposed project, with an estimated cost of
$900 million, would be funded, at no cost to the public,
through advertising on a new Board of Education Web site
that will produce an estimated revenue of nearly $4 billion
over 10 years.
Source: New York Times (Sep 2000)
Thought for October:
You can't depend on your eyes when your
imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain
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