What’s e-Learning? Jay Cross, Internet Time Group, [email protected], 1/11/00.

What’s e-Learning?

Jay Cross, Internet Time Group, [email protected], 1/11/00

e-Learning

True e-Learning embraces six attributes or philosophies.

e-Learning attribute #1

e-Learning is learning on Internet-age steroids: real-time, 24/7, anywhere, anytime, networked.

e-Learning attribute #2

e-Learning embraces the learning process from assessment through testing and sometimes certification

relationships, not courses

learning lifecycle

e-Learning attribute #3 web-delivered, typically assembling learning

experiences on the fly from the freshest information

e-Learning attribute #4 provides a mix of learning methods -- virtual

classroom, simulation, collaboration

e-Learning attribute #5 incorporates registration, payment and charge-backs,

monitoring learner progress, administering tests and exams, maintaining learner records

Instructor

Learner

Learner

Learner Learner

Learner

LearnerLearner

Learner

Learner

Instructor-centric

Learner

Instructor

Library

Peer chat

Web

Mentoring

Online learning

Mobile

Learning portal

Video conferen

ce

Learning communities

ClassCompanyintranet

Outsourced learning

Colleges

Learner-centric

learner-centric, personalized, 1:1

e-Learning attribute #6

learner relationship management

e-Learning summary

Summary: What is e-Learning?

1 learning on Internet-age steroids: real-time, 24/7, anywhere, anytime

2 web-delivered, typically assembling learning experiences on the fly from the freshest information

3 provides a mix of learning methods -- virtual classroom, simulation, collaboration

4 embraces the learning process from assessment through testing and sometimes certification

5 incorporates registration, payment and charge-backs, monitoring learner progress, administering tests and exams, maintaining learner records

6 learner-centric, personalized, 1:1

Models of e-Learning

Companies provide components of e-Learning solutions; none is vertically integrated. To understand them, we need to consider...

LearningManagementSystem

learner

mentors

community

assessment

testing

e-store

deployment

personalization

content assembly

tracking

administrationworkshops

courseware

Content

e-Learning

Learner

learning objects

instructor-ledworkshops

Internet

community

“e-LearningCloud”

individuallearner history

HR, ERP

e-Store, tracking

jobcompetency

definitions

Community

Learning

objects

Learning

objects

“e-LearningCloud”

Personalizationengine

Personalizationengine

Learningobjectparser

Learningobjectparser

Live events

Objects

Profile

RecorderRecorder

Planner

Personalfront-end

Personalfront-end

TestingTesting

Peers, mentors