Human contact is an essential aspect in the learning process," he said. An IT course based solely on virtual interaction will make students feel isolated and even de-motivated. However, Dr Don Smith, course director of information systems at the...
Chris Ingle, analyst at IDC, sees the multimedia browser revolution focusing on the consumer market, and leaving the business PC largely untouched. We'll increasingly see PC hardware and software companies focusing on audio and video as means of...
Many organisations - unwittingly or not - view their human capital in this way, buying, using and selling skills rather than nurturing, developing or growing them. The very word ‘human resources’, while coined in an attempt to make people feel...
The Council of Europe has formally adopted a political statement on human rights in the IT-dominated society. The eight-page document sets out how the longstanding European Convention on Human Rights has been affected by the spread of communication...
For the largest organisations, the infrastructure itself can be just so huge that it becomes almost impossible to take a holistic view. Conflicting priorities, competitive pressures and even corporate politics all conspire to push the goal of...
A survey of 998 managers by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and Centre for Applied Human Resource Research found only 54 per cent have used e-learning tools in the last year and just 20 per cent have participated in a structured e...