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Pageviews:65 Many e-learning projects use professional voice artists to record the voice-over for self-paced programs, rather than having the subject matter experts or the authors to do so. This is in fact an efficient way to develop the program, and it is a common practice for corporate training. However, in the academic . . . → Read More: Edit the Voice-Over to Make It More Attractive: A Quick Tip for E-Learning Development 
Pageviews:338 I have been enjoying a group buying lifestyle for a while. It is not just about the discount I got from the deals; it is also an opportunity for me to explore what good things life has to offer, which I would not have discovered if those group buying sites did not exist, especially in . . . → Read More: Are You Getting Ripped Off by Group Buying Sites? I was invited to give a presentation at the Informa E-Learning Summit in Melbourne last week. My talk covered the best practices for managing e-learning projects across multiple institutions, the instructional rationale behind the e-learning development, and the implications for enterprise architecture design. Below are the on-site voice recording and the PowerPoint slides. I look forward to a further discussion with those who are interested in this topic. . . . → Read More: Managing e-learning projects across multiple institutions: a presentation at Informa E-Learning Summit Believe it or not, China’s president Hu Jintao just started his Web 2.0 campaign by opening his micro blog on People.com.cn. The account has been certified, and the message has been confirmed as genuine. As you can expect, such breaking news would generate a huge amount of traffic in the website, and therefore, his account had to be closed. According to most reporters, this account attracted more than 15,000 followers on the first day of its opening. Upon this news, I would like to make 3 points: 1. This should not be an official launch of Hu’s Web 2.0 campaign. 2. Political leaders’ participation in Web 2.0 would have a significant impact on China’s policy over the Internet. 3. The Web 2.0 Strategy should be taken seriously. . . . → Read More: Hu Jintao’s microblog: a good sign for China, but good care should be taken! 
As many others do, I usually keep pressing the save button or Ctrl + S while editing a document, just in case the application suddenly crashes down and then I lose the changes I made in the document. However, sometimes I found it annoying when I save the document too fast and can’t undo something silly because the “Undo” menu usually becomes gray after you save the document. I have been experiencing this issue for years. Now, I’m using SugarSync to backup my important documents. While I’m editing the documents, SugarSync will automatically sync them to the could and keep different versions of the files. For example, every time I press Ctrl + S, SugarSync keeps a new version of the file. If I have done something silly on the document and saved the file, I can go to my SugarSync account and download an earlier version of that file and replace the “newer” file. That is another form of undoing… . . . → Read More: Did you save your document too fast? SugarSync can help. I usually buy books on Fishpond.com.au for their low prices (lower than Amazon.com considering the price plus shipping), but recently I was looking for books about property investment for the Australian context and I found that PropertyBooks.com.au offers even cheaper prices. I gave it a try and it turned out that they dispatched the books on the same day when I placed the order and I received them the next day. I’m impressed and I highly recommend this website to others. . . . → Read More: Recommending PropertyBooks.com.au This article introduces those tools that I have used and found useful for travelling in Sydney, such as 131500, Parkopedia, Link Express, TripView Sydney, Taxi Pro and World Taximeter. Unfortunately there is only a Chinese version here. I may translate it when I have a chance. . . . → Read More: Useful tools to optimise your travel in Sydney On the 7th of December, 2010, I gave a presentation at the ascilite 2010 Sydney conference. It is about how to use the enterprise architecture design technique to help with the development of distance online learning programs in tertiary education. . . . → Read More: Enterprise architecture roadmap for the development of distance online learning programs in tertiary education: a presentation at the ascilite 2010 Sydney conference 刚刚第一次在网上购买了上海大剧院的歌剧的门票，现在想把刚才的体验与我以前在悉尼歌剧院网站上购票的体验进行一次比较。本文将从市场营销和购票流程两个方面对两个剧院的网站进行比较。 . . . → Read More: Comparison of the Experiences of Purchasing Tickets Online from Shanghai Grand Theatre and Sydney Opera House (Chinese) Issues and Challenges of Web-Based Systems Integration: a Case Study of Aquarelle.com and Amazon.comThis paper aims to investigate issues and challenges within the tasks of web-based systems integration through a comparative analysis of two cases—aquarelle.com and amazon.com. The investigation was implemented from the customer perspective and the IT perspective. The data were mainly collected from the author’s personal experience of using the websites as a customer. Then the author revisited and tested the websites in order to examine and justify the issues and challenges of their systems integration. Justification of the better business model is made and practical proposition is provided based on the data analysis and the results. . . . → Read More: Issues and Challenges of Web-Based Systems Integration: a Case Study of Aquarelle.com and Amazon.com Emergent Medical Service in the Netherlands has experienced difficulties in saving acute myocardial infarction patients’ lives by avoiding delay for treatment. A new knowledge system should be introduced to the organization to improve their business processes. Before a proper solution to the problem is developed, an insight into the organization is necessary. In this paper, CommonKADS methodology (Schreiber et al. 2000) is used to perform a scoping and feasibility study and an impact and improvement study by modeling the organization from different aspects. . . . → Read More: Modeling Emergent Medical Service in the Netherlands with CommonCADS Emergent Medical Service （EMS） in the Netherlands has experienced difficulties in saving acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients’ lives by avoiding delay for treatment. The problem was associated with various weaknesses of the service system, which included (1) delay of patient (i.e., the patients did not contact their GP or EMS when the AMI occurred), (2) delay of GP (i.e., it took some time for the patients to see a GP and it took some time for the GP to diagnose the patients and decide to redirect them to EMS), and (3) delay of treatment (i.e., when the patients were delivered to the hospital, they might not receive treatment immediately) (He 2009). As a result, a new solution proposed by EMS was to allow citizen to call EMS directly. An alternative solution proposed by He (2009) is to develop a priority service system for AMI patients and only let this kind of patients bypass the GP. In He (2009), the service processes within EMS has been analysed through a CommonKADS framework (Schreiber et al. 2000), but some theoretical and practical issues were not covered under the CommonKADS framework and still left unsolved. This paper will use another two frameworks to analyse the unsolved issues associating with the implementation of the solution by He (2009) from a social perspective. . . . → Read More: Social Analysis of Emergent Medical Service in the Netherlands Pageviews:1266 Knowledge Management System for Web 2.0 Technology-Supported Electronic Television Program Guide
Wenchao He Michael Jefferies Shankai Zhang Han Qin School of Information System and Technology . . . → Read More: Knowledge Management System for Web 2.0 Technology-Supported Electronic Television Program Guide The Semantic Web is the emerging landscape of new web technologies aiming at web-based information and services that would be understandable and reusable by both humans and machines. Its advent and the relevant technologies, tools and applications provide e-learning development and research with new contexts and opportunities. Enterprise e-learning solution can particularly benefit from the incorporation of Semantic Web technologies because of the nature of enterprise context—it requires that not only learning per se but also business processes should be taken into account, and Semantic Web technologies can optimise the solution so that the business goals can be more easily and likely achieved. This paper will explain the benefits and the approaches of incorporating Semantic Web technologies to enterprise e-learning solutions, and use the Ernst and Young example to demonstrate how to propose Semantic Web technologies to a given e-learning solution. . . . → Read More: Incorporating Semantic Web Technologies to Enterprise E-Learning Solutions |
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What Is Blocking Our Eyes? - Some Thoughts on the Headline "Chinese Average Urban Household Monthly Income Exceeds 9000 CNY per Person"
一个让人触目惊心的标题突然浮现在人们眼前——“中国统计局宣布：中国城市人均月收入已突破9000人民币大关”，于是人们开始疯狂地传播、议论和埋怨；“被平均”、“拖后腿”、“祖国，对不起”等字眼也相随地被无限制地复制……经过一番查找、搜索、邮件咨询，我得出的结论是，大家的眼睛都被自己懒得动手探寻真相的状态给蒙蔽了！ . . . → Read More: What Is Blocking Our Eyes? – Some Thoughts on the Headline “Chinese Average Urban Household Monthly Income Exceeds 9000 CNY per Person”