ELearning is our EBusiness

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E-Learning is our E-Business ?!

• A forum for discussion on the comparison of
  e-Learning e-Business parallels

Steve Cumming Teaching Educational Development
Institute University of Queensland
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• "eEurope is a roadmap to modernise our economy.
  At the same time, through its e-Learning
  component, it offers everyone, but particularly
  young people, the skills and tools they need to
  succeed in the new knowledge based economy."
  (Romano Prodi,  President of the European
  Commission)
• evolution requires one to adapt or
  die"(Charles Darwin, Theory of Evolution, 1859)

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Questions

• Who do you believe are the primary e-Learning
  decision makers in an organisation?
• Administration
• Management
• Academic
• Technical/Technologists
• Do you belong to one of these areas?

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Introduction

• Definitions
• e-Business
• e-Learning
• e-Enterprise
• Higher Education/VET defined as a business
• Customers/clients
• Currency

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Relationships and Change

• Inter-relationship between
• Technology and business
• Technology and pedagogy
• Transition from
• Enterprise to e-Enterprise
• Learning to e-Learning

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e-Business

• e-Business Models
• Business to Business - B2B
• Business to Consumer - B2C
• Transactions interactions between company,
  business partners customers
• Virtual Marketplaces,
• Procurement Resource Management,
• Extended Value Chain,
• Customer Relationship Management

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e-Learning

• Courses delivered
• Synchronous Instructor led real time
• Asynchronous Self paced, self directed
  non-real time
• Based on
• Learning style of individual and learning style

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e-Learning Strengths

• Real-time, 24/7, anywhere, anytime
• Learner-centered, personalised to the individual
  customised to the organisation
• Network-assisted, often assembling learning
  experiences dynamically
• Blend of learning methods - virtual classroom,
  simulation, collaboration, community,
  instructor-led
• Learning, assessment / testing and sometimes
  certification
• Online administration - handling registration,
  payment charge-backs, and monitoring learner
  progress

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Top 10 Reasons to use e-Learning

• Saves time and money
• Allows you to change at internet speed
• Creates a competitive edge to companies that
  value their human capital
• Integrates design, development, delivery, and
  management capabilities
• Shortens and focuses classroom-based courses
• Delivers more than just computer-based training
  over the web
• Enables formal and informal learning
• Stimulates learning at all levels
• Empowers users to take control of their careers
• Lays the groundwork for continuous performance
  improvement

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e-Enterprise

• Convergence in markets containing B2B and B2C
• Clicks and Mortar combine assets with
  efficiency of cybermediation
• Raw material procurement (supply) to Customer
  retailing and Customer management (demand)
• Leverage existing asset base

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Define

• Define a strategy and vision that brings the
  real-world and virtual world strengths together.
• What is the market?
• Who are the customers?
• Who are the competitors?
• Who are the people in the organisation?
• What is the organisational culture?
• How does this translate to the virtual world?
• How can value be added?
• How will the return on effort be measured?

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Transform

• Identification of business models, processes and
  applications the architecture to move from
  strategy through vision to reality.
• What is the shape, form and high level
  functionality?
• What are the task flows, production of resources,
  services and information?
• How will the physical resources be distributed?

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Implement

• Implement the technology architecture that will
  allow implementation of the business models and
  processes.
• Identified functionality embedded in systems
  components
• Technology audit, identify current position
• Identification of cross-organisational
  integration points
• Technology framework, specific applications to
  mirror business processes

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Recycle

• Reuse infrastructure of both business models and
  technology applications and recycle the learning
  of the process, to reduce time in the future.
• Develop sets of business processes that are
  reusable
• Create templates and models
• Increase repository of reusable components
• Build towards an agile enterprise
• Flexible to respond to customers or marketplace
  shift

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Question of Cost

• To who
• University/Institution
• Faculty
• Department/School
• Individual
• In terms of
• Time
• Money
• Opportunity
• For
• Infrastructure
• Training
• Development
• Support

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The Future

• World-wide e-learning predications in the
  training segment as presented in June 2000
  World-wide US Corporate IT Education and
  Training Services forecast analysis 1999-2004
  

"The trends of investing in human capital,
accountability in the K-12 and higher-education
sectors for students and teachers to produce
demonstrated outcomes, and more efficiency over
the Internet than in a classroom-based setting
are driving the market. (Scott Wilson, Senior
Analyst for Merrill Lynch Co.)
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Summary

• Parallel not parallax
• Costs and currencies
• Measurement of success
• Diversification of resources
• Recognition and retrospection for forward
  planning
• People friendly technology in education courses
  and support models