e-Learning R eadiness

1. e-Learning Readiness Welcome: Treatment Foster Care (TFC) agency Administration, Leadership members, Information technology staff, pre-service foster parent Trainers and TFC staff. Kathy O’Neil Northcentral University March 21, 2013

2. Readiness for e-learning: Entrepreneurial Readiness, Readiness of Leadership, Readiness of Culture 1) Environment Economic Readiness, Technological Readiness, Readiness of Human Resources 2) Resources 3) Education Readiness of Content, Educational Readiness Psycharis, S. (2005)

3. 1) Environment • Entrepreneurial Readiness Strategic Goal E-Learning

4. 1) Environment • Entrepreneurial Readiness Types of E-Learning: Informal Self-paced Leader-led Performance support tools (Broadbent, 2002, p. 10)

5. 1) Environment • Examples: • live chat rooms • audio/video conferencing • instant messaging • two-way live satellite broadcast lectures (Broadbent, 2002) Synchronoustechnology: similar to traditional classroom learning whereby the trainer and FP communicate simultaneously the interaction is electronic instead of face-to-face.

6. 1) Environment • Examples: • messaging boards • social networks • blogs and email (Broadbent, 2002; Simonson, Smaldino, Albright & Zvacek, 2012) Asynchronoustechnology: instruction that is offered electronically accessed by the learner at a separate time

7. 1) Environment • providing opportunities for collaboration and interaction in real time • immediate feedback and support • flexibility to make adaptations to the class material based on the FP strengths and needs Advantages of Synchronous Delivery

8. 1) Environment Advantages of Asynchronous Delivery convenience (time/place) allowing reflection before communicating developing the sense of an online community, providing an opportunity for processing, gathering and sharing of other resources/material

9. 1) Environment Synchronous versus Asynchronous

10. 1) Environment • Entrepreneurial Readiness • Readiness of Leadership (Maeroff, 2003; Psycharis, 2005; Senge, 1990)

11. 1) Environment • Entrepreneurial Readiness • Readiness of Leadership • Readiness of Culture (Broadbent, 2002; Hache, 2000; Jennings, Kay & Schmoller, 2005; Psycharis, 2005; Rosenberg, 2008; Rosenberg, 2009).

12. 2) Resources Technological Readiness: Economic Readiness: • increase number of licensed foster homes • increase in TFC children placements • eliminate the cost of food and rental space. • staff training, • transitioning materials • curriculum development Readiness of Human Resources: (Palloff & Pratt, 2001; Psycharis, 2005)

13. 3) Education Readiness of Content: (http://wcwpds.wisc.edu/foster-parent-training/Default.aspx)

14. 3) Education Readiness of Content Educational Readiness (http://wcwpds.wisc.edu/foster-parent-training/Default.aspx) (Hung, Chou, Chen & Own, 2010; Kosak, Manning, Dobson, Rogerson, Cotnam, Colaric & McFadden, 2004; Palloff & Pratt, 2001; Rockwell, Schauer, Fritz, & Marx, 2000; Simonson, Smaldino, Albright & Zvacek, 2012)

15. Readiness for e-learning: Entrepreneurial Readiness, Readiness of Leadership, Readiness of Culture 1) Environment 2) Resources Economic Readiness, Technological Readiness, Readiness of Human Resources 3) Education Readiness of Content, Educational Readiness

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