How Do We Get There from Here

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How Do We Get There from Here?
Gloria Gery and Brandon Hall OnLine Learning
2000 Opening Session
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Everythings Changed.Nothings changed.

• Technology revolution and explosion
• Most are connected -- even schools
• Platforms are adequate
• Tools are superb!
• but
• The thinking about technologys use is
• the same

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The 90s Focus

• Laying track
• Building infrastructure
• Serious advocacy
• Developing computer skills
• use
• application
• development

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Focus of the 00s

• Redefining
• Learning
• Environments

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Focus of the 00s

• Redefining our roles
• Integrating functional silos

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Focus of the 00s

• Managing Knowledge
• its representation...
• distribution ...
• and use

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Stage I Collection Distribution

• Get it out there
• Efficiency benefits
• economics
• logistics
• flexibility

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Stage IIEffectiveness

• Doing what we do better
• improved design
• better representation
• more interactivity
• structured collaboration
• increased granularity
• even more flexibility

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Stage IIIReconceptualization

• Inherently different approaches
• problem and task-centered approaches
• Different goals Performance Support
• integration with workspaces
• context-sensitive resources
• intelligent agents

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Stage IV Transformation

• Fused environments
• Learning and doing are inseparable
• Learning is a function of doing
• Integrated development of performance centered
  systems

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Better Task Analysis and Representation

• Understanding required performance
• Deep understanding of the work and work context
• no longer teaching subjects
• Detailed Task Analysis and Modeling
• Mapping Content to Context

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Goal Generating PerformanceSpeed Time to
Understanding

• Developing powerful knowledge forms for rapid
  understanding by learners
• media
• richer knowledge types
• Classifying and codifying knowledge for use,
  maintenance and reuse
• data base organization
• powerful searching

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Ongoing Evolution

• Working with knowledge differently
• Filtering knowledge
• Clearly representing task requirements
• Integrating knowledge to task context
• Enabling Collaboration
• Achieving more and more integration of resources,
  including data

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Linking Performers and Experts

• Making collaboration easy before, during and
  after training
• Facilitating Communities of Practice

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Counting Metrics are WrongBased in the Classroom
World

• Why worry about drop-outs when people can get
  what they need when they need it?
• We need mindset change...
• Why control access to learning resources when
  they are free?

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We Need to Change Our...

• Goals
• Deliverables
• Methods
• Language
• Metrics
• Relationships

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The Rubber Will Hit the Road Design the Trip

• We need to be
• open
• knowledgeable
• clear
• influential
• right