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Interface Design: In Your Face or Interface?
by Vanessa Haakenson, M.A.

Every day we use some type of interface from an automatic teller machine to a debit payment device in the grocery store.

You can always recognize bad interface design because it's difficult to use. However, good interface design is transparent and rarely noticed.

Successful products have at least one commonality, good interface design.

As Don Norman says, "What's wrong with interfaces?

The question, for one. The interface is the wrong place to begin. It implies you already have done all the rest and now you want to patch it up to make it pretty for the user.

That attitude is what is wrong with the interface (Laurel, 1991)."

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Compare Course Management Tools
FutureU has completed a comparative analysis of five popular course authoring tools.
The course management programs reviewed include: Blackboard's CourseInfo MadDuck Technologies' Web Course in a Box (WCB) Universal Learning Technology's WebCT Virtual Learning Environment's VirtualU WBT System's TopClass
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Issues and Answers Regarding
Development Delivery of Distance Ed Courses

This guide features an 11-step process for making online collaborative projects successful. The new guide also offers... explanations of various kinds of online collaborations -- discussion groups, data collection & organization, document sharing, synchronous communication, & online workshops & courses tools & websites that can be resources for creating each of these forms of collaborative environments tips for "moderating" online collaborations.

We've included an excerpts from the "Implementing the Project" section of the chapter, "It's Your Turn: Designing & Implementing a Collaborative Environment." Follow the link provided to review the content and get more information about how to get the entire resource guide online for FREE.

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Development Delivery of Distance Ed Courses

The rapid growth of technology is impacting every facet of life as we embark on a new century. There are few institutions unaffected by its presence. Universities, businesses, and individuals are grappling with the best way to harness technologies' promise of meeting individual needs at lightening speed.

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Building Learning
Communities in
Cyberspace : Effective
Strategies for the Online
Classroom (The Jossey-
Bass Higher and Adult
Education Series)

The McGraw-Hill
Handbook of Distance
Learning: A "How to Get
Started Guide" for
Trainers and Human
Resources Professionals

Distance Training : How
Innovative Organizations
Are Using Technology to
Maximize Learning and
Meet Business
Objectives

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