Inappropriate Work-related Facebook Checkups
An insurance company, Manulife, has withdrawn a woman’s long-term sick leave benefits associated with a diagnosis of major depression after viewing pictures of her on Facebook.
Text Messaging as a Part of College Entrance Exams
There’s a new addition to a UK college entrance English exam: a section on text messaging worth 10% of students’ grades.
Illinois Graduate Students on Strike
The students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are on strike today, for one of the unlikeliest of reasons: out-of-state tuition waivers.
Each Instructional Technology Has Its Place
The key to design is to choose instructional technologies to fit training objectives. Most designers choose PowerPoint first. That is backwards and inefficient.
Uh-oh, I Hit Reply All!: The Perils of Sexy E-mail
A reminder on e-mail and sometimes unintended recipients: a sexually explicit conversation between two Cornell employees was “accidentally” sent campus-wide.
E-Learn Vancouver, Final Thoughts
After reflecting on E-Learn 2009, I decided to post a few final thoughts about overall trends and happenings at the conference this year.