Online Learning Summit--Clark Aldrich
The Supplier Summit (cont.)
Vendors are hungry for professional development. At 8:15 this morning, the
room is full of people listening intently to Clark Aldrich lecture from PowerPoints.
Clark listed questions holding back eLearning.
- What is eLearning?
- How do you spell it?
- Does it really work?
- How should success be measured?
- What’s the role of formal vs informal?
- Where do you get Consumer Reports-style info on vendors?
- Should we adhere to standards?
- Vendor viability.
- One-stop shopping?
- How intellectually challenging should eLearning be?
- What’s the kill app?
Only one industry has the same organizations in charge as 200 years ago.
Universities. And it’s because they’re not measured.
Technology Entrances for eLearning
It’s wrong to look only at the enterprise. How can you sell to an enterprise if you can’t sell it to the individual?
- Enterprise-Wide: “Tight rules, expensive, misaligned, ASP, dated.” Not
going to be big for eLearning. Glass-house eLearning is consolidating.
- Business Unit –“High payback, breaks rules” like early PCs, LANs, color
printers. This will happen.
- End User/Consumer “Imperfect, highly functional, installed, cool.” Palm
Pilots, Internet, Win 95, IM, cell phones, Google
Globalization will not happen without eLearning; eLearning will not happed
without globalization. Clark foresees a global curriculum, a world where it’s
assumed that everyone has taken the foundation in business course.
Posted by Jay Cross at September 22, 2002 11:23 PM
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