E-learning and Lifelong Learning in the Future Lives of Students

1. E-learning and Lifelong Learning in the Future Lives of Students Curt Bonk, Ph.D. Professor Indiana University President, CourseShare cjbonk@indiana.edu

2. Question #1. What kinds of job areas are predicted to grow?

3. Occupational employment projections to 2010(Daniel Hecker, Nov., 2001, http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2001/11/art4exc.htm • The economy will continue generating jobs for workers at all levels of education and training, although growth rates are projected to be faster, on average, for occupations generally requiring a postsecondary award (a vocational certificate or other award or an associate or higher degree), than for occupations requiring less education or training.

4. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics(February, 2003; http://www.bls.gov/oco/oco2003.htm)

5. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics(February, 2003; http://www.bls.gov/oco/oco2003.htm)

6. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Tomrrow’s Job, Occupational Outlook Handbook(February, 2003) • All seven of the education and training categories projected to have faster than average employment growth require a postsecondary vocational or academic award (chart 4). These seven categories will account for two-fifths of all employment growth over the 2000-10 period.

7. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics(February, 2003)

8. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics(February, 2003) • Education is essential in getting a high-paying job. In fact, all but two of the 50 highest paying occupations require a college degree. Air traffic controllers and nuclear power reactor operators are the only occupations of the 50 highest paying that do not require a college degree.

9. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Feb, 2003)

10. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Feb, 2003)

11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Feb, 2003)

12. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics(February, 2003) • Employment in occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree is expected to grow 21.6 percent and account for five out of the six fastest growing education or training categories. Two categories-jobs requiring an associate degree, projected to grow 32 percent over the 2000-10 period, faster than any other category, and jobs requiring a postsecondary vocational award-together will grow 24.1 percent.

13. Fastest Growing Jobs (left) andLargest Numerical Increase (right)

14. E-Learning Implications • Target degree areas with highest potential growth. • Students could use employment portals that have career advice. • Offer job reskilling for cleaners, farmers, ranchers, tellers, and clerks.

15. Question #2. What are your predictions related to e-learning and lifelong learning?

16. Bonk E-Learning Predictions • Increase in Certificates and certificate granting institutions • Lifelong online learning just as expected as primary and secondary education • Attend multiple institutions • Shareable learning objects embedded in every courses

17. Learning to Teach with Technology Studio

19. More Bonk E-Learning Predictions • Workplace activities or simulations linked to most courses • Blended learning: some live and online • Mentoring exchanges • Life e-portfolios • More online team learning • Wireless learning expectations

20. Benefits of Collaborative Workplace Learning (LearnScope, February 4, 2003) • Opportunity to engage in discussion with experts • Activate exchange of ideas • Increase interest • Achieve higher levels of thought • Promote critical thinking • Help solves problems • Likely to retain information longer

21. Benefits of Collaborative Workplace Learning(LearnScope, February 4, 2003) • Meet specific needs in the process of learning • Enhance performance • Match skills • Efficiencies (economy of scale) • Gain professional development • Expand professional networks • Develop partnerships (learning/business) • Market and promote your work

22. Who Collaborate With? (LearnScope, February 4, 2003) • Special interest groups (search Web) • Key people in your industry • User groups (informal and formal) • Professional bodies • Individual experts • Online apprenticeships

23. Who Collaborate With? (LearnScope, February 4, 2003) • Other teams working on similar projects • Other registered training organizations • Schools, universities, childcare ctrs • Other educational services (e.g., libraries, info tech, career advisors)

24. E-Learning Implications • There is a need for tools to link education and workplace. • Workers need professional development portals to provide training. • Practitioners and experts need workplace related certification and professional development portals.

25. More Bonk E-Learning Predictions • Individualization of courses • Free access to most education • Increased e-learning partnerships and consortia • Learning is more on demand • Learning is more continual • Learning is increasingly unbounded.

26. Free Tools!(e.g., Nicenet.org, Whiteboard)

27. Free Resources!

28. E-Learning Implications • Create unique e-learning tool(s) from free tools available. • Create portals of free resources and tools for students. • Have global instructor rating system for students to explore. • Create course exchange across colleges for students.

29. Still More Bonk Predictions • Live Longer • More Educated • Multiple Degrees • Multiple Learning Formats Standard • Design own programs and courses • Specialists AND Generalists • Degrees for unknown occupations • Expect any Courses Where Live • Cyber-students (various digital aids attached)

30. What do you Predict?

31. Question #3. What are good vocational education examples related to e-learning?

32. Ivy Tech State College

33. Miami-Dade Community College

34. Maricopa Community College

35. Maricopa Community College • The Maricopa Community Colleges offer 8,438 credit courses in addition to 738 occupational programs. • The Maricopa Community Colleges maintain 1,265 full-time faculty augmented by more than 3,600 adjunct faculty who are specialists in their respective fields.

36. LearnScope (Australia)

37. What is LearnScope? • The LearnScope Virtual Learning Community is a professional development project within the Australian Flexible Learning Framework 2002-2004. Its goal is to assist in achieving a nation of creative capable vocational, education and training (VET) practitioners through the development of skills, understandings and capabilities in the application of new technologies for teaching and learning.

38. How to facilitate workplace learning? • Reassure ok to make changes, but yet be on guard that may depart from overall aim • Maintain priority on work-based learning and not just work • Communicate meetings and ways of sharing • Embed learning conversations so can recognize learning • Strike balance between motivating and nagging

39. Technical and Further Education (TAFE), Melbourne, Australia

40. Technical and Further Education (TAFE), Melbourne, Australia • promoting and implementing the State Government's Flexible Learning Strategy; • development of learning resources, both targeted and provider-led, through innovative funding initiatives; • professional development/skills development; • identifying, facilitating, funding niche projects; • fostering networks and learning communities; • research; and • communication of flexible learning issues.

41. Technical and Further Education (TAFE), New South Wales, Australia

42. Course Info On Web

43. Cisco Networking Academy

44. Cisco Networking Academy

45. E-Learning Implications • There is funding for online vocational education. • Students need help in selecting high quality vocational education sites and resources. • The online training of information technology instructors is highly important. • There is a need for sites which compare online tools for vocational education.

46. Question #4 What hot jobs are coming on the horizon?

47. The Next Hot Jobs(Chris Taylor, Smart Money, June 2002, pp. 117-120) http://www.smartmoney.com/consumer/index.cfm?story=working-june02 • Bioinformatician • Wireless Engineer • Forensic Accountant • Speech Pathologist • Data Miner • Home-Care Nurse • A.I. Programmer • Adventure Travel Guide • Fuel-Cell Engineer • Intellectual-Property Attorney

48. Bioinformatician(Chris Taylor, Smart Money, June 2002, pp. 117-120) • "The fusion of biology and computer science is the hottest of the hot in science right now, and it's going to hear up even more." Want to make more than $120,000 per year? Choice jobs with drug makers; especially with human-genome mapping. You will need graduate training in chemistry, molecular biology, or biochemisty and be familiar with computer technology.

49. 2. Wireless Engineer(Chris Taylor, Smart Money, June 2002, pp. 117-120) • Who owns a Blackberry or has a wireless laptop? And who wants to make more than $80,000 per year? Just get a master's in engineering and take some Java and C++ programming. You will also need a master’s in electrical engineering.

50. 3. Forensic Accountant(Chris Taylor, Smart Money, June 2002, pp. 117-120) • Consulting but for more than $100,000 per year, who wouldn't. Their expertise is in ferreting out corporate fraud and shady deals. Any court cases will involve these types of individuals sorting through reams of information. Need degree in accounting and CPA and auditing and risk assessment experience.