Tuesday, June 01, 2004
e-Learning Experiences
Issues for the learner:
*Collaboration or lack of collaboration - boring because of design or lack of social stimulation? isolation and being bored
*Concentration - really easy to get distracted - because of design or learning style? organisations are giving courses for such a long time but how do people come around that?
*Language - different terminology, 'do you know what this is?' easter eggs - roll over the word and give meaning
Issues for the org:
*Measuring effectiveness - can't measure if you can't assess, learning outcomes? completion rate (doesn't show what has been learnt) - don't know what ROI is either, metrics - how do u measure
*cost of setting it up
*Return on investment - long term, cutting down expenses of travel and speed of sending info etc but doesn't measure against how much it costs to set it up etc
*lack of skilled staff that know about e-Learning
*why is it always online? Why aren't we embracing new technology? e.g smsing - accessibility, employees are 24/7 accessible, won't be big chunks of learning but small bits
*Convergence - blending technology e.g mobile phones have pda loaded into them, video cameras etc
*privacy - track people, e.g anne can track when we log on to utsonline etc and how many times we use it, what time etc - who has access to this data? what are they doing with the data? is it okay?
*Collaboration or lack of collaboration - boring because of design or lack of social stimulation? isolation and being bored
*Concentration - really easy to get distracted - because of design or learning style? organisations are giving courses for such a long time but how do people come around that?
*Language - different terminology, 'do you know what this is?' easter eggs - roll over the word and give meaning
Issues for the org:
*Measuring effectiveness - can't measure if you can't assess, learning outcomes? completion rate (doesn't show what has been learnt) - don't know what ROI is either, metrics - how do u measure
*cost of setting it up
*Return on investment - long term, cutting down expenses of travel and speed of sending info etc but doesn't measure against how much it costs to set it up etc
*lack of skilled staff that know about e-Learning
*why is it always online? Why aren't we embracing new technology? e.g smsing - accessibility, employees are 24/7 accessible, won't be big chunks of learning but small bits
*Convergence - blending technology e.g mobile phones have pda loaded into them, video cameras etc
*privacy - track people, e.g anne can track when we log on to utsonline etc and how many times we use it, what time etc - who has access to this data? what are they doing with the data? is it okay?
