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Minding The Gap: Sustaining eLearning Innovation

Minding The Gap: Sustaining eLearning Innovation. Ellen Wagner, Sonoma Partners, LLP. Mind the Gap. Mlodrag Bogdanovich , 2007. Big Questions for Learning Professionals. How do we prepare learners for jobs and technologies that don’t exist yet?

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Minding The Gap: Sustaining eLearning Innovation

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  1. Minding The Gap: Sustaining eLearning Innovation Ellen Wagner, Sonoma Partners, LLP

  2. Mind the Gap

  3. MlodragBogdanovich, 2007

  4. Big Questions for Learning Professionals • How do we prepare learners for jobs and technologies that don’t exist yet? • How do we help prepare a workforce for a world where they will need to solve problems we don’t even know about? • How do we prepare ourselves to edit/modify/delete much of what we have learned about our own professional practices? • How do we capture and extend learning experience so that is it meaningful in the context of our augmented digital lives? • How to we move beyond the fascination with the latest and greatest and focus on sustainable innovation?

  5. Between innovation and implementation • Between research and practice • Between academic institutions and corporations • Between products and solutions • Between “traditional elearning” and emerging elearning Some of the Gaps We Need to Mind

  6. Innovative, emergent consumer technologies alter everyone’s expectations about….everything • The path from innovation to adoption is a lengthy journey of implementations and evaluation to determine the benefit/return. Innovation and Implementation

  7. Digital Skills Communication & Collaboration E-Learning and Virtual Schools Innovation is just the Tip of the Iceberg CurrentStakeholders Goal: NewStakeholders Early Adopters Mainstream adoption Number of users

  8. Seven Disruptive Trends (Computer Sciences Corporation, 2008) • New Media – User Generated Content. RSS feeds, blog posts and wikis • New Reality - A blend of virtual and physical reality will give rise to augmented reality • Social Power - New media social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. Viral microblog sites such as Twitter play host for those who appreciate "snackable" content. • Information Transparency – Sensors and location-based services everywhere. • New Waves – More wireless devices, more wireless broadband services. Open access to run any application on any device anywhere in the world • Platform Makeover - Virtualization and cloud computing • Smart(er) World – pattern recognizing, real-world data sampling computers will be smarter than we are by 2029 (Kurzweil) http://www.eweek.com - eWeek Ziff Davis Enterprise Holdings Inc Generated: 17 November, 2008, 19:54

  9. What are the real IT Top Issues for 2008 according to EDUCAUSE? 1. Security 2. Administrative/ERP/Information Systems 3. Funding IT 4. Infrastructure 5. Identity/Access Management 6. Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity 7. Governance, Organization, and Leadership 8. Change Management 9. E-Learning / Distributed Teaching and Learning 10. Staffing / HR Management / Training http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/TopTenITIssues2008/46605

  10. IT Top Issues for 2008 according to the Campus Computing Project

  11. The Gartner Hype Cycle

  12. Examples from the Gartner Higher Education Hype Cycle, 2008

  13. Digital Skills Communication & Collaboration E-Learning and Virtual Schools When Hype Cycle Meets the Innovation Adoption Curve Goal: NewStakeholders CurrentStakeholders Early Adopters Mainstream adoption Number of users

  14. Research and Practice

  15. Stages of eLearning 2.0 Use

  16. Today’s Learning Metaverse looks like “Web 1.25”

  17. Academic institutions and Corporations

  18. ContrastingCultures from the HED Perspective(Carl Berger, University of Michigan, 2005)

  19. Where To Get “Business” Research about the market forces affecting eLearning

  20. Sources of (e)Learning Industry Market Research • eLearning Guild http://www.elearningguild.com/ • Bersin Associates http://www.bersin.com/ • Brandon Hall Research http://www.brandon-hall.com/ • American Society for Training and Development http://www.astd.org/ • Masie Center http://www.masie.com/

  21. Scanning the Environment: Blogs to Watch • Media Newswire http://media-newswire.com/ • Tech Crunch http://www.techcrunch.com/ • Venture Beat http://venturebeat.com/ • The Long Tail http://www.thelongtail.com/ • Wired http://www.wired.com/ • Valleywaghttp://valleywag.com/ • Reuters Business and Finance http://www.reuters.com/finance • eWeek, http://www.eweek.comInformation Week http://www.informationweek.com/ • Economist http://www.economist.com/; Harvard Business Review, http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/hbr/hbr_current_issue.jhtmlMIT Tech Review http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine.aspx

  22. Products and Solutions

  23. Traditional vs. Emerging eLearning

  24. THANKS!! FOR MORE INFORMATION ewagner@sonoma-partners.com

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