lecture 5 Enterprise Portal

Enterprise Portal: A concept for website that allows employees and possibly clients, business partners and even the general public to access a company’s information and knowledge base.

Types of portals:
Internal portal: Entry point for employees into the intranet.
Eg; employees can access internal documents through intranet.
External portal: provides gated entry for customers and partners to access the extranet.
Eg; extranet allows customers to place and track orders.

Benefits
Convenient way to access everything needed to get tasks done anytime, anywhere in a secure manner, personalised, relevant, accurate and easy to find what is required.

Features of a portal
It has four basic features which are content aggregation and presentation, application access, search and integration.

lecture 4 Weblog (e-learning)

A weblog, or simply a blog, is a website which contains periodic, reverse chronologically ordered posts on a common webpage. Such a web site would typically be accessible to any Internet user.

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary, It’s simple XML code that allows sharing of information on a real-time basis.
RSS syndication format enables anyone to share comments, news headlines, links to recent articles, descriptions, and images.
This information is available not only to other Web content providers, but also to users of a variety of devices such as PDAs, cell phones, e-mail ticklers, and voice upgrade pagers.

Benefits: Weblogs help people become subject-matter experts, Weblogs increases people’s interest and ownership in learning ,Weblogs give people legitimate chances to participate, Weblogs provide opportunities for diverse perspectives, both within and outside of the classroom.

Organization use plog to..
discover their own simple truths about how well (or how poorly) their projects are going.

Weblog in education
facilitated much more collaborative learning by students than in earlier courses. Students commented on each other's paper drafts and worked in groups on their research projects
for usage of IT which is considered fun not work. Reading and writing the Web is a way for me to tap into a writing space that students already use--and more importantly, want to use.”

Spend a lot of time with laptop, use blog to rewrite notes while reconstructing what have already learnt and teaching ownself.

Better way to structure the information than how the teacher presented it. And so I restructure it for clarity. And by doing that, you learn the material better.”

Encourage informal learning, Encourage creation and sharing of ideas, Have a repository of all learning (using RSS and trackback), which can later be used for other purposes (setting standards for next class, curriculum research, subject resources, etc.)

Useful teaching and learning tools (provide a space for students to reflect and publish their thoughts and understandings. And because blogs can be commented on, they provide opportunities for feedback and potential scaffolding of new ideas. Blogs also feature hyperlinks, which help students begin to understand the relational and contextual basis of knowledge, knowledge construction and meaning making).

this is an interesting topic as we can see that weblog is becoming more popular now. there seems to be a need to use weblog to create a more fun module than just ur textbooks. even companies and schools uses weblog to find more feedback.

strategy to kms

A company’s choice of KM strategy must be driven by the company’s competitive strategy.

Codification Strategy: Knowledge is carefully codified and stored in databases, where it can be accessed and used easily by anyone in the company. When everything is turn to explicit.

Personalization Strategy: Knowledge is closely tied to the person who developed it and is shared mainly through direct person-to-person contacts. (tacit-tacit).

Favours Codification: Similar products or services for each customer, Work may demand high skills but relatively little creativity, Business and market strategies based on analysis of specific knowledge, Ratio of operational staff to leaders very high, Relative similarity in operating characteristics over locations and functions.

Favours Personalisation: One off products, services or projects for each customer, High premium on creativity and innovation, Business and market strategies based on ‘feel’ or intuition, Ratio of operaional staff to leaders almost non-existent, High diversity in operating characteristics over locations, functions and markets.

First-generation of KM
Principle: Knowledge already exists, Can be managed in Explicit form, Make the most of what you already have, Emphasis (Lessons-learnt Databases, Best Practice Templates, Enterprise Portals, Document Management Systems, Taxonomies, Metadata and Search Engines).

Second-generation of KM
Principle: New knowledge can be generated through learning, ‘Sticky’, and must be linked to an individual or community of practice, Explicit knowledge has a finite half-life (prolonged by retaining link to the originator), Emphasis (Invest Time in learning before, during, after activities, Networks, communities and technology that makes and support connections between people).

Third-generation of KM
Principle: Sharing knowledge becomes part of day-to-day business, Emphasis (Processes, Reinforced by leadership behaviours, Organisation Culture) example: no grant for funding unless demonstrate how already learnt from others as a part of the business case.

e-learning experience in school

i'm blogging bout my e-learning experience in school

as usuall..i am always happy when any module have e-learning week as that means we do not have to come sch for that lesson...which means...more sleeping time for me!!

since started poly, our time tables are quite hectic and deprive me of my 8hr a day sleep.

so when there's e-learning, means going to sch later or have more breaks which we sometime have nothing to do for the long break hrs as everyday we have 2 hr breaks and with e-learning..means more longer breaks..dotz..

usually we have to do online chat with our tutorial teacher at a certain time slot for our class and discuss bout the tutorial..the teacher will record the chat and we need to do a summary on the tutorial that we chatted when e-learning period...

for the lecture slides, we can just download it at Mel..some lectures give a audio lecture where we can here the teacher explaining about the lecture topic while we go through the slides

for some module, we are required to post the tutorial ans on the discussion board and also comment on our friends' ans.

in other module, we need to do a quiz where it is graded to see how well we understand the topic. some quiz allow multiple attempts while some dont, after doing the quiz, we can check which questions we got correct and also the wrong ones..teacher will put some comment and reference and ans on the qns we got wrong..

in all this is my experience for e-learning week..i would prefer teacher to go through the e-learning tutorial ans in the next tutorial lessons so that we could get the right ans and also elaboration to make us understand more..since the education in poly is so rushing nowadays..
especially since they change the semester from 6 months to 4 months..