e-Learning

Objectives

By the end of today you will be able to:

•Describe current trends in e-learning

•Identify opportunities to use Blended Learning

•Describe the Pros & Cons of Virtual Classrooms

•Address Implementation Issues e.g. culture

Agenda• Definitions

• Trends/future

• Blended Learning

• Virtual Classrooms

• Knowledge Management

• Demos’/case studies

• Generic courseware

• Bespoke courseware

• Other

• Implementation – cultural issues

DefinitionsDefinition of e-Learninge-learning means the educational content, learning services, and delivery solutions that support and enable Internet-based learning. e-Learning is either asynchronous ( self paced) or synchronous (conducted in real time).

The components of elearning as follows:-

Content. Content covers course structure, multimedia, simulations, testing,and assessments. off-the-shelf generic or bespoke

Learning services. These services include learning needs assessments and learning strategy development, program-building components, content design/development, technical and systems integration, site management/hosting, maintenance, and online mentoring.

Delivery solutions. These solutions include training authoring tools, course management systems, collaborative software and virtual classrooms, and add-on tools. The delivery solutions category does not include hardware and network infrastructure.

Trends/Future• Blended learning

• Learning Content Management Systems (LCMSs) and learning objects

• Web collaboration or Live e-Learning

• Simulations, learning games, videos, and storytelling.

• Training without trainers, version 1: Knowledge sharing

• Training without trainers, version 2: Informal knowledge exchange

The current trends are a move from learning as reactive, isolated events to learning as a sustainable, proactive process in the organization. They seek to grow and sustain the learning career of each worker.

Trends/Future

Training was

Reactive

Random

Decentralized

Unstructured

Little Data

Unmeasured

First to Go

1980’s

Training became

Tactical

Still Reactive

Centralized

More Structured

More Expensive

Beginning to measure

First to Go

1990’s

Training must be

Strategic

Proactive

Blended Solution

Planned

Focused

Measured

or be the First to Go!

Today

Blended Learning

‘It is the use of two or more distinct methods of training. This may include combinations such as……..’

ELLIOT MASIE

What is blended learning?

Blended Learning

Bad blends

Default

• Design decision made before design

• what trainers think learners like

• “ feel it’s time for a change”

• reason and research played no significant role

Blended Learning

Bad blends

Classroom preservation

• classroom seen as synonymous with learning

• “we have classrooms and trainers, let’s use them”

E-learning panacea

• will solve all of our problems

• LMS plus catalogue

Blended LearningBad blends

Velcro

• stick classroom and e-learning together

• no integration

• pre and post course!

Duplicated model

• multiple methods of delivery

• duplication

Blended Learning

Project Manager DevelopmentProject Manager Development

PLOS is part of the PMDP Architecture

* Voices and Assessment Centre generate feedback about PM

competencies as the basis for individual development planning

PM CoreCurriculum

PMOS

Project ManagerProject LeaderPM Candidate

Typical Minimum Time in Role 2 yrs .

Sr . Project Manager

Mentor assigned

SMOS

High Risk AssignmentAssignments Assignments with RiskWork Experience

VOICES Initial Feedback *

PLOS

Ind

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Co

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Sk

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Rev

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Sk

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Rev

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Assessment Centre *

Lik

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PM

Car

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QS MCE

On-Going Needs Based Training in Behaviour, Technology & Methodology

Coaching for Knowledge Transfer and Risk Mitigation

VOICES On-Going Feedback *

e-Learning e-Learning e-Learning

Blended Learning

Exercise

Produce a blended framework based on the information you have just seen

Virtual Classrooms

Main Areas of Functionality:-

• Class

• Mentoring

• Meeting

• Seminar

• Web Cast

Virtual ClassroomsLIVE, HIGHLY INTERACTIVE• “Over the Shoulder”• Real-time Group Interaction• Face-to-Face• Emphasize Teamwork• Remote Application Sharing• Breakout Sessions.• Self-exercise Mode

ROLE-BASED INTERFACE• Feature-rich Moderator Interface• Participant Interface

Virtual Classrooms + / -What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of a Virtual Classroom environment for the:

LearnerTutor

Knowledge ManagementKnowledge Management is the key to institutionalising the connection of people and the sharing of knowledge within organisations.

Colleagues contribute and reuse information from around the world to get their jobs done smarter, faster and better.

You can get information when and how you need it, dynamically, with the ability to customise the tool to suit your needs.

Lunch

Generic Courseware

Pro’s:- Packaged content is cost-effective to buy, and packaged IT training courseware can be very effective.

Con’s:- Business, professional skills and vertical-market learning content has to be industry specific, business specific, and customizable to be of value, all of which requires immense dedication, investment, and labor from the vendor—more so than makes economic sense.

Generic Courseware

Demonstration

Bespoke Courseware

Pro’s:- Well-designed, high-quality CBT can have great instructional and performance-boosting value.

Con’s:- It is very costly, slow and labor-intensive to develop, quickly obsolete, and suffers from a house-of-cards software limitation—all of which prevents its value from gaining long-term or large-scale momentum.

Bespoke Courseware

Demonstration

Implementation -Cultural issues

Summary

Corporate e-Learning that is concerned with business-critical (“important”) training must be based in a company’s internal performance-driving systems, shaped around its unique business requirements, and grown and managed within the framework of the company itself if it is going to work. And to do this oneself, the first step is enterprise technology to serve as a platform—in other words, an LMS.