Online Learning '98

Motivation is key to learning -- and it comes from within. (Sun's 51/49 division of self-responsibility/corporate responsibility). Consider the entire cycle from need through training to "post-training" collaboration.

"Corporations that win today don't take away your business; they take away your people."

80% fast is better than 99% slow.

Arthur Andersen Best Practices for Learning:
· self motivated/self assessed
· outcome-focused
· peer education
· project driven
· teacher as facilitator
· technology-enabled

For the future,
· expectations will be set by entertainment industry production values. we need cheap ways to do what's now expensive.
· information is plentiful; attention is scarce; trust [brand] guides choices.

Terminology and one-liners

Most popular buzz words: intellectual capital, human capital, community of practice, the Late Bronze Age (late 1988), objects,

On-job-training is really on-job-learning.

Cycle time of new knowledge.

The Law of Diminishing Astonishment. (over-stimulation dulls the senses and increases expectation)

Mike Hawley (MIT): "People are always happiest when something is entering or leaving the body."

Gloria Gery: "Training will be either strategic or it will be marginalized."

Steve Allen: "We sponsored a survey of the Fortune 500. The most popular authoring system by far is PowerPoint."

Use You Don't Know Jack for on-line learning.

Douglas Adams: Minds and computers are both simply modeling devices. The VR in our heads is often biased, skewed.

"All children are gifted but they open their presents at different times."