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TOC - Educating Managers with Tomorrow's Technologies
by Charles Wankel 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Research in Management Education and Development, vol. 2 (2003) Volume title: Educating Managers with Tomorrow's Technologies http://management-education.net/rmed2/ Introduction: Emerging Technological Contexts of Management Learning Charles Wankel and Robert DeFillippi 1. Educating managers, managing education: Trends and impacts of tomorrow's technologies Rogier Brussee, Marjan Grootveld and Ingrid Mulder 2. Learning and Teaching Management on the Web: What Do We Know? J. B. Arbaugh and Leigh Stelzer 3. Online Simulations in Management Education about Information and Its Uses Sheizaf Rafaeli, Daphne R. Raban, Gilad Ravid, and Avi Noy 4. Innovations in Web-format Case Teaching: Leveraging Dynamic Information Delwyn N. Clark 5. Electronic Student Portfolios in Management David S. Chappell and John R. Schermerhorn, Jr. 6. The Place and Space Model TM of Distributed Learning: Enriching the Corporate e-Learning Model John Gallagher 7. Interpersonal Communication Training with Tomorrow's Technologies? Michael Henninger and Birgit Weingandt 8. Mobile Scenarios: Supporting Collaborative Learning Among Mobile Workers Johan Lundin and Urban Nulden 9. Global Management Education: The Case of ERP Enabled Business School Programs William D. Reisel and Edward F. Watson 10. From Vision to Reality: A Model for Bringing Real-World Technology to the Management Education Classroom Michael D. Hamlin, Charla Griffy-Brown, and James Goodrich FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO: http://management-education.net/rmed2/ This link has extensive contact information for the chapter authors and purchase information including library recommendation forms.

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Allocation of money within the family - refs needed
by Sue Cranmer 18 Oct '03

18 Oct '03

Hi I'm struggling to find anything about how families negotiate the money involved in buying home computers. Does anyone know of anything relevant? Thanks Sue www.suecranmer.co.uk

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Special issue on Web surveys.
by Katja Lozar Manfreda 17 Oct '03

17 Oct '03

The Journal of Official Statistics (JOS) in cooperation with the Web Survey Methodology Portal (http://www.websm.org) is planning a Special issue on Web surveys. CALL FOR PAPERS Due date: March 31, 2004 ___________________________________________________________________________ SCOPE AND TOPICS: In recent years, a new way of collecting survey data has come into use: data collection through the World Wide Web. This innovation has many advantages, but also generates new methodological challenges. For this special issue we welcome manuscripts on various aspects of Web survey methodology and application, including (but not restricted to): · coverage issues and respondent solicitation strategies · sampling and weighting issues · visual design effects including the use of multimedia · nonresponse issues and participation patterns · measurement errors · mode effects and mixed mode surveys · Web data collection in special contexts, such as employee surveys via corporate intranets, etc. · questionnaire development and pretesting methods · studies on the utility and effectiveness of Web surveys, such as cost and benefit issues · software reviews and other technological issues. JOURNAL INFORMATION: JOS is a scholarly journal published by Statistics Sweden, the national statistical office of Sweden. The journal publishes articles on statistical methodology and theory, with an emphasis on applications. For more information on JOS, please visit the JOS home page, www.jos.nu. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Contributions should be submitted exclusively via email to jos(a)scb.se, preferably in MS Word. Detailed guidelines for preparation of a manuscript are available at the JOS home page. Manuscripts proposed for this special issue should not have been submitted or published elsewhere. All manuscripts are peer reviewed and evaluated with respect to quality, significance and clarity of presentation. Manuscripts should be as concise as possible without loss of clarity. To be considered for the special issue, a submitted manuscript must reach JOS no later than March 31, 2004. The special issue is tentatively scheduled to appear in December 2004. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: The special issue is administered by a guest editorial committee, comprised of the following members: · Dr. Michael Bosnjak (University of Mannheim, Germany) · Dr. Gösta Forsman (Swedish National Road Administration and Linköping University, Sweden) · Dr. Annica Isaksson (Linköping University, Sweden) -- Committee chair · Dr. Katja Lozar Manfreda (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) · Dr. Lars Lyberg (Statistics Sweden, Sweden) -- Chief editor of JOS · Dr. Tracy Tuten Ryan (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA) · Dr. Matthias Schonlau (RAND, USA) The committee members are looking forward to your submission. ************************************************************** Lozar Manfreda, Katja, PhD Assistant Professor Faculty of Social Science, University of Ljubljana Kardeljeva ploscad 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Tel. +386 1 5805 284 Fax. +386 1 5805 101 Email: katja.lozar(a)uni-lj.si, katja(a)ris.org Faculty of Social Sciences: www.fdv.uni-lj.si Research on Internet in Slovenija: www.ris.org Methodology of Web surveys: www.websm.org

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Web-based or paper questionnaires
by Lorna Heaton 17 Oct '03

17 Oct '03

Hi, I'm looking for previous work that has compared the use of Web-based questionnaires with paper-based ones in data collection for social science research. Particularly, do people answer in the same way or does the support make a difference? If anyone knows of work in this area, thank you in advance. Lorna Heaton Assistant Professor Department of Communication University of Montreal

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Have a great conference ... research ideas for 2004
by Steven Clift 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

It was great to meet so many of you when your conference came through Minneapolis in 2001. I'll have to scan your agenda and pretend that I am there. If you attend the "e-democracy: Localism" session <http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/aoir2003/index.php?p=114> on Sunday be sure to grill Jakob Jensen <http://www.jakoblinaa.blogspot.com/> on his paper about about "Minnesota E-Democracy - Online Participation And Political Effects" <http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/aoir2003/index.php?t=328>. :-) I think the questions that he asked our forum participants get at the important agenda-setting issues and provide a useful template for future comparisons with other forums. They also help one imagine the political impact of the online medium if such local public issue forums were successfully implemented in more cities. E-Democracy.Org does have a research section on our web site <http://www.e-democracy.org/research/> with the fresh content toward the bottom of the page. Some less know articles linked from here include: Bridging and Bonding Social Capital in an Online Public Sphere: the case of MN E-Democracy (Word), a Masters Thesis by Kimberly B. Kirn, 2001- Provided by E-Democracy with the permission of the author. Civic Engagement in the Cyberspace Era: A Study of a Local Cybergroup (PDF), A Ph.D by Gay Henry Lyons, 2002 - This is NOT focused on Minnesota E-Democracy specifically, but it does explore a similar forum like our own in Knoxville, Tennesse. As I indicated, E-Democracy.Org is interested in working with researchers ready to create vital knowledge about the application of information and communication technologies and strategies _with_ democratic intent. So as you get ready for AOIR in 2004, feel free to contact us. Steven Clift E-Democracy.Org http://www.e-democracy.org/about

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influencing digital policy
by Sandra Braman 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

Beginning in the 1970s, policy-makers in every branch of government began to admit that it was difficult to make laws and regulations dealing with digital technologies because they didn't really understand those technologies, how they were used, and the effects of those uses. Members of AOIR have answers to those questions, but like other academics find it difficult to get what they know into the heads and hands of policy-makers. Experiences of scholars of information, communication, and culture of the past who tried to bring the scholarly and policy communities closer together clarify just what those difficulties are and identify useful and effective responses or work-arounds. Those of you who hope that the results of your research might inform policy-making may be interested in a recently published book, COMMUNICATION RESEARCHERS AND POLICY-MAKING, that reviews the history of the experience of the field through the voices of those involved, and analyzes that history in light of today's deep need for more informed policy-making. Information about the book can be found at http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=B4469E64-5925-44A2-A5B…, and MIT Press will have the book in its display at the upcoming conference. Sandra Braman

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autism, children and computers
by catherine middleton 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

Posting on behalf of Wendy Keay-Bright and Derek Freeman, please reply to freeman(a)dircon.co.uk October is Autism Awareness month in Canada. Reactive Colours Creative Presentation, 830AM Friday October 17, Room 5, Hilton Toronto by Wendy Keay-Bright and Derek Freeman of Cardiff School of Art and Design, Wales, UK Documenting visually the introduction, and first reaction, of children on the autistic spectrum to computers, a creative presentation of Reactive Colours software will explore the implications of, and explain how design, utilizing open development and community participation, can create a neutral interface where communication, through play, can occur more easily than is usual with autistic children. Please come along or if you're unable to join us ,do contact Wendy and Derek through freeman(a)dircon.co.uk and we can arrange to meet.

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another dumb question
by Norman Clark 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

I tried to find this info on the website, but I couldn't, so here goes my dumb question: will we be receiving a paper copy of the conference program when we arrive at the conference, or should I go ahead and print out the PDF if I want something I can look at without having to turn on my laptop? ;-) Thanks, Norm Clark

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.pdf program
by Jonathan Sterne 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

Well done, and thanks for the many responses! --J

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Blogging at AoIR
by JASON NOLAN 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

Blogging and Updates at AoIR 2003 As part of the AoIR conference, we (Jason Nolan, Bernie Hogan and Michelle Levesque) been asked to set up a conference blog, as a nexus to bring together all the various blog posts that conference attendees may make. The site is up now at http://edublog.com/aoir. The blog will serve a variety of functions, but the main three are: to keep you up to date on last minute conference changes and information; bring together new feeds from all the other AoIR bloggers attending the conference; and to server as a bit of a meta-blog for the over-all conference. Our list of AoIR bloggers is based on Thomas Burg's http://randgaenge.net/outlines/AOIR_blogs.html that he created based on the names solicited by Jeremy Hunsinger from AoIR list members. If you would like to be included on this list, please contact Thomas <editor(a)randgaenge.net>. Note: bloggers with RSS feeds will be automagically added to our news feed. Those without feeds will be added manually, as we can get to them. Please check the http://edublog.com/aoir regularly for updates, information, and for a sense of what's going on in the sessions you missed. There will be ibooks in the Apple Cybercafe available at the conference, and we'll have a public blog available where folks without a blog can try things out. For any information on getting the AoIR aggregation, please contact Jason, Bernie and KAT at aoir(a)edublog.com -- ------ Jason Nolan, PhD Scholar in Residence, Knowledge Media Design Institute, UofT Senior Fellow, McLuhan, Program in Culture and Technology, UofT Lecturer, School of Early Childhood Education, RyersonU --- mailto:jason@jasonnolan.net http://jasonnolan.net/

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