Examines the ways in which IT (information technology) can support and facilitate the learner in the workplace and suggests that work-based learning can correct the failure of academia to respond to the requirements of modern industry. Discusses the concept of work-based learning and the development of lifelong learning capabilities. (Author/LRW)

The Information Society is affecting organizations and the people who work in them. European projects resulted in a change model emphasizing the role of communication structures within organizations and the ways in which information and communications technologies interact with them. (JOW)

Reviews the characteristics of non-formal education as expressed in various academic-theoretical definitions, presents the links in this field to distance learning, and recommends future directions for exploring distance learning in non-formal education. Discusses the use of information and communication technology and considers problems with…

Explores library-related implications of the U.S. Department of Justice's investigations into the operations of Microsoft and Intel and suggests that developing a broader understanding of information technology marketing is crucial to the short- and long-term future of libraries. (MES)

Describes a project in which a group of primary school students tried out a range of IT activities using Xemplar Pocket Book computers. Demonstrates that they improved the quality and range of pupils' learning and supported literacy in science. Explains that pocket computers do not replace but complement the classroom PC. (Author/ASK)

Illustrates the interdependent issues associated with modern materials science and suggests that the performance of a computer depends on the physiochemical properties of its components. Focuses on selected materials critical to a computer's construction. Contains 69 references. (DDR)

Twenty nursing graduate students in an Internet-based course were compared with 23 who did not take the course. The former were more likely to be connected to nursing networks, used Internet-based health information in practice, used computer skills for other classes, and understood the relevance of telemedicine. (SK)

Explains that counselors must keep abreast of information and technologies of use in working with older adults as well as understand older adults' use of information technologies. Describes 10 Web sites of use to counselors of older adults. (SK)

Discusses changing uniform resource locators (URLs), providing an analysis of the frequency of change; solutions available; and reasons for outdated and inaccurate URLs. Lists software and Web services that monitor URLs and hypertext links. (PEN)

Investigated in three studies how undergraduates use and think about information and communication technologies. Data from questionnaires, computer diary records, and focus groups indicated that students would support policies encouraging them to purchase their own personal computer, but that universities should work to control costs, provide…

Describes online learning in engineering at Deakin University in Australia, including: flexible engineering programs, computer-based learning, progression from individual efforts to formal centralized control, costs of information technology, experiences with grant-funded development projects, managing development of online material, student…

Discusses information technology and human performance technology (HPT) and considers the potential of performance technology to improve business results. Topics include the strategic value of HPT in organizational governance, developing leadership capability, team building, fostering collaboration, and corporate culture change; and the need to…

Describes some examples of recent developments in new information technology learning environments that have been enhanced by the contributions of educational developers at several Australian universities. Proposes pedagogically informed principles to guide the development of on-campus teaching and learning environments that may feature the use of…

Urges chief information officers (CIOs) at colleges and universities to be not only information systems representatives to the executive team, but full-spectrum contributors to the institution's business strategies and directions. Considers the CIO's role in politics and public relations, finance, marketing, in relation to the chief executive…

Situates technological literacy in its ideological context of competitive supremacy and conservative politics. In opposition to a "neutral" notion of this construct, negotiates a turn toward "critical" technological literacy, which represents an overtly political turn toward overcoming forms of power that sustain inequities in…