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The E-Learner

Issue No. 5

1^st March 2000

Published by

© European Consortium for the Learning Organisation.

All rights reserved.

Welcome to the third edition of The E-Learner, ECLO's electronic newsletter for members.

The E-Learner complements our existing hardcopy newsletter that will continue to carry articles and information of interest to ECLO members.

As always, we welcome contributions from members, as it is impossible to keep on top of the wealth of information on the World Wide Web on topics of interest to you all.

For your ongoing reference The E-Learner will be archived in the members' zone of our web site.

Editor: Mike Kelleher

Editorial

Preparations for our 7^th annual Conference are well under way and the latest edition of The Learner is at the printers. The conference looks like being one of our best yet and I am convinced that The Learner goes from strength to strength. If you would like an advance copy, you can download a PDF version from the ECLO web site.

ECLO2000

The full programme and registration details will be included in the next edition of The Learner, which you should receive within two weeks. In the meantime all of those details are available on the web site. A registration form is available and easy to use. I look forward to seeing you in May.

We recommend that you book your accommodation in Munich as soon as you can. The hotels nearest to the venue have rooms but they are limited in numbers.

ECLO wishes to thank our members who have sponsored the conference this year: IHK, Allianz, Kenniscentrum Cibit and Deutsche Telekom.

Annual General Meeting 2000

This year we will be holding our general meeting on Tuesday May 16^th at the IHK offices in Munich. The meeting will begin at 19:00 to give most members the opportunity to arrive in time. We will send you a separate e-mail message very shortly in order to ensure the meeting is quorate according to our constitution. We would be grateful for a quick response on this matter.

FORUM

I reported last month that a number of interesting papers were now available from the workshop on learning in Learning organisations held in Evora last November. These can be downloaded from the FORUM web site. A number of you reported problems with the hyperlink and I have re-configured it here.

From the TrainingZone:

Increase your power through delegation

In "Power Failure in Management Circuits," Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that larger organisations often suffer from a feeling of "powerlessness" - the acquisition of "r set up and introduce an eLearning environment in the workplace. Well worth reading - for confirmation of what you're already doing, or to get you excited and moving forward.
http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=12005&d=1

Creating effective email surveys

This article from the current issue HR Magazine explores in detail how HR professionals can make the best use of email technology to create quick and effective surveys of workplace employees. Much of the advice is equally applicable in a wider context as well. The full article is available online and provides plenty of helpful tips in designing a survey with a high response rate.
http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=11885&d=1

Members

Graham Guest is speaking at a conference in Abu Dhabi in April, where he will be
facilitating a workshop on Lifelong Learning for the Global Networked Society. Details are at http://www.hct.ac.ae (click on TEND 2000).

New contact at North & Mid Cheshire TEC, Neil Smith, Employer Business Unit Manager, replacing Chris McLinden (who left to join John Moores University in Liverpool) - email neilsm@normidtec.co.uk

Kenniscentrum Cibit has converted to a Gold membership and we welcome its continuing support in this new category.

Web watch

Those of you interested in monitoring intellectual assets may find this article by Eric Sveiby very useful.

Pegasus has been at the forefront of the systems thinking movement for many years now. It has an impressive library of its publications, which can be ordered on-line.

From mechanistic to social systemic thinking by Russell Ackoff is an on-line digest of a talk given by this respected author.

Thought of the month

Is Windows a virus? No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do:

They replicate quickly. Okay, Windows does that. Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so. Okay, Windows does that.

Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk. Okay, Windows does that too

Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems Alright... Windows does that, too. Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow and the user will buy new hardware Yup, that's with Windows, too. Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences:

Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature So, Windows is not a virus

Source: www.oraclehumor.com

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