ELearning in College and Corporate Settings: The Present State and Beyond

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E-Learning in College and Corporate SettingsThe
Present State and Beyond

• Curt Bonk, Ph.D., cjbonk_at_indiana.edu
• Indiana University and CourseShare.com
• http//CourseShare.com
• http//php.indiana.edu/cjbonk

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What is happening in higher education?
http//courseshare.com/Reports.php
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Survey 1 222 College Faculty(Early Adopters of
the Web)
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Survey Finds Concern on Administrative
ComputingChronicle of Higher Ed, June 22, 2001,
A33, Jeffrey R. Young

• Campus-technology leaders say they worry more
  about administrative-computing systems than about
  anything else related to their jobs.
• (survey by Educausean academic-technology
  consortium)

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Survey Limitations

• Sample pool
• Dated information
• Many were Web savvy
• The Web is changing rapidly
• Lengthy survey
• Some were administrators
• Does not address all issues

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How Old Are Early Web Adopters?
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Why post to MERLOT or the WLH?
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Internet Access

• 78 percent had Internet access in their current
  or most recent classroom.
• 93 percent had computer lab accessibility.
• 97 percent had home access.
• Note This is more than double the 47 percent of
  Americans who are users of the Internet at home
  as reported in a recent UCLA study (The UCLA
  Internet Report, 2000).

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Any Online Teaching Experiences?
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Who Owns Online Courses?
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Is Teaching Online Time-Consuming?
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Course Quality Improved Online?

• 39 percent unsure
• 32 percent agree it was improved and
• 29 percent said no.

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Courseware Systems

• 83 percent were provided a Web-based platform or
  courseware system
• 22 percent more than one.
• 27 of those making a decision had more than one.
• 10 percent had access to three courseware systems
  or conferencing tools.

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Courseware Features Like with Current Tool

• Comprehensive, consistent, customizable
• Ease of use, flexible, reliable
• Data and course security
• Detailed statistics on bulletin board use
• Good online help
• Internal e-mail systems, drop boxes, chats
• Posting of tasks due dates on Web
• Randomized test banks

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What Percent of Time Teach Online?
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Interested in Freelance Instruction?
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Any Obstacles to Teaching Online?
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Problems Faced

• Administrative
• Lack of admin vision.
• Lack of incentive from admin and the fact that
  they do not understand the time needed.
• Lack of system support.
• Little recognition that this is valuable.
• Rapacious U intellectual property policy.
• Unclear univ. policies concerning int property.

• Pedagogical
• Difficulty in performing lab experiments
  online.
• Lack of appropriate models for pedagogy.
• Time-related
• More ideas than time to implement.
• Not enough time to correct online assign.
• People need sleep Web spins forever.

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Any Supports Needed?
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Does technical support vary by size??
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Online Technology Pushes Pedagogy to the
ForefrontFrank Newman Jamie Scurry, Chronicle
of Higher Education, July 13, 2001, B7.

• Many faculty members are still concerned whether
  the technology is simple and reliable enough to
  use for more-sophisticated learning tasks.
  Increasingly, however, better software is
  emerging that engages students in more effective
  learning.

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What Instructional Activities are Needed?
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General Recommendations

• Develop Instructor Training Programs
• Foster Instructor Recognition and Support
• Create Instructor Resource Sharing Tools
• Develop Online Learning Policies
• Conduct Online Learning Research
• Form Online Learning Dev Partnerships
• Create/Test Online Learning Pedagogy

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What about the corporate world?
http//courseshare.com/Reports.php
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Survey 2 201 Trainers, Instructors, Managers,
Instructional Designers, CEOs, CLOs, etc.
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Current Courseware System

• Slow development time.
• Not interactive.
• Low interactivity, boring.
• lack of bookmarking, tracking, eval
• XYZ is powerful and intuitive. It is not always
  reliable.
• It is comprehensive, scalable, and intuitive.
• From a cost posture, they are, quite simply,
  unbeatable.

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How are costs calculated in online programs???
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What are the Obstacles and Supports in Online
Training Environment???
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Sample Reasons for Obstacles

• Skepticism on the benefits within the Healthcare
  environment.
• Ignorance about the advantages of using the
  Internet to save money.
• Generation gap and bias against anything not
  face to face.
• Poor support from IT managers to support
  organizational goals.
• Lack of foresight in the industry/no ability to
  see the big pic!

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Lack of Motivation or Incentive to Complete!!!

• Higher Ed Study
• 29 using blended approach had more than 10
  attrition
• 44 of totally online had gt 10 attrition
• 2 of blended gt 50 attrition
• 10 of online gt 50 atttition

• Corporate Study
• 55 did not track or did not know their
  completion rates
• Of those that did, 22 reported completion rates
  of less than a fourth of students.
• Nearly half reported less than 50 completion
  rates
• Only 2 reported 100 completion.

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Future Trends

• Recognized Online Certificates
• Instructor/Trainer Portals
• Online Train the Trainer Fed Funding
• Instructor and Trainer Conferences
• Freelance Instructor Exchanges
• Global Online Instructor Ratings

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The future of e-learning is learner-centric
(Adler Rae, Jan., 2002, e-learning mag)

• Imagine that in the future you will have your own
  personalized learning environment that reflects
  your individual style and learning needs, and is
  instantly available. Not only will it be your one
  point of learning entry for everything you need
  to learn, but it will continue to learn as you
  learn and modify its behavior based on
  interacting with you over time.

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New Survey Future of E-Learning and HRD
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Future of E-Learning Survey

• Instructor-Led 1 in next 24 months,
  Internet/Intranet 2, Multimedia 3
• Most use Web as supplement to instructor-led
• All Technology
• 1. Knowledge management tools
• 2. Wireless Technology,
• 3. Reusable Learning Objects,
• 4. Peer-to-Peer Collaboration,
• 5. Mentoring,
• 6. Language Support
• Want White Papers on Course Design/Dev.

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So, any questions about the state of things?