How Elearning Saved the Classroom

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How E-learning Saved the Classroom

• Bob Mosher
• Chief Learning Evangelist and Strategist
• LearningGuide Solutions
• b.mosher_at_learningguideonline.com

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What About the Learner?This Is How MANY Are
Feeling
Learning Bridge
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Our strengths

• What does the classroom do better then ANY other
  learning modality?

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What Weve Created!!
REAL LEARNING Poorly supported
HIRED!!
RETIRED!!
Career with the company
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What Weve REALLY Created!!
Now how IMPORTANT do these times become???
HIRED!!
4 Years!!
Time with the company
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Questions

• What kind of learner have we created?
• What kind of instructors have we created?

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We Need to Support the TOTAL Learner...
Initial
Continued
Remedial
Upgrade
Transferred
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Move over Content
CONTEXT
CONTENT
Monitor Company Group, L.P., - 2004
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E-learning Hype or Hope

• Whats the hype?..Challenges
• Whats the hope?..Benefits

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The Hope

• Learning is a process not an event
• Brings time back into training and learning
• Expands trainings reach
• We will start evaluating howour learners learn
  best
• Teach to independence

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Learn to Learn ClassroomRamp Up/Ramp Down
Technology Aided Learning
Support Materials
Self Aided Learning
Instructor Aided Learning
Peers
Instructional Time
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Tools of the Trade

• Asynchronous NO instructor/peers in real-time
• WBT CBT
• EPSS e-Reference
• Internet References FAQs and Industry sites
• Message Boards
• Books and reference material
• Tapes (Audio Video)
• Synchronous Instructors/peers in real-time
• Classroom
• Large Group
• 1 on 1
• Web broadcasting
• Chat
• An LMS to manage the whole thing!!!!

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Reinvent the Classroom

• Process not an event (getting the point? ?)
• Case-based and job relevant
• A place to learn learning strategies NOT content
• Problem solving and group work
• Resource laden
• SME, BME, Peers, learning tools,,,

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Steps in the Evolution

• Start the change in class where it fits
• Introduce on-line support during labs/class
• Take advantage of email
• Start external message boards Chat
• Meeting with managers/clients
• Collect cases and scenarios
• Start needs assessments
• Retooling instructors

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Instructors As Mentor

• Best advocate for e-learning
• No longer content expert, but rather the learning
  expert Lets get out there!!
• Teach tools!!! NOT content!!
• Learn to listen Active listening
• More questions then answers
• Deal with frustration
• Lead the horse to water
• Cognitive Apprenticeship
• Allow for mistakes and failure

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Learning As a Process
Assessment - Needs - Skill -
Orientation Manager Mtg. Prework - E-learning
Assessment - Needs - Skill -
Orientation Manager Mtg. Postwork - EPSS -
E-learning
Assessment - Needs - Skill -
Orientation Manager Mtg. Postwork - EPSS -
E-learning