General Motors e-Learning Alliance

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General Motors e-Learning Alliance

• Four-year revenue contract announced April, 2001
• Mastery, Quantum, and MBA degree being offered to
  88,000 global salaried workers
• This strategic alliance will help us jump-start
  our e-learning efforts for strengthening our
  leadership and management development programs.
  Well do this by providing world-class content
  with a project-oriented learning approach that
  takes full advantage of technology on a global
  basis. Its our vision to be able to blend these
  elements in a cost-effective way for the
  development of employees and the success of the
  enterprises.
• Donnee Ramelli
• President,General Motors University

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Thomson Strategic Alliance

• Strategic investment in UNext to explore a range
  of mutually advantageous relationships involving
  distribution, content and technology for online
  education and training courses
• Will assist in the distribution of UNext courses
• May provide content for online courses intended
  for the medical, legal, and financial communities
  
• Expects to license UNexts learning
  administration systems and technology platforms
  to Thomson
• Will work closely with UNext (through its
  Learning market group) to pursue joint venture
  opportunities and strategic alliances

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Other Market Opportunities

• B2U
• Public and Private Universities and Colleges
• B2G
• Governmental Agencies
• B2C
• End Consumers

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What is our e-learning approach?

• Unique combination of development and learning
  philosophy
• Developed by
• The worlds leading cognitive and learning
  scientists with pedagogy and technology skills
• Leading academics and scholars with content
  expertise
• Industry experts
• Philosophy of
• Collaboration is essential
• Problem-based learning creates persistence and
  sets goals
• To make all of this work, UNext has created a
  knowledge studio that implements the new
  learning in education

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Quality of Knowledge

• Our courses are developed with leading academic
  institutions
• They provide subject matter expertise and
  experience
• They ensure our courses meet their quality
  standards
• They co-brand our courses

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Quality content alone is not enough

• Course design and pedagogy
• Instruction and mentoring
• Monitoring and tracking
• Accessible technology and infrastructure

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Technology only as good as the pedagogy
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Television is not our model, as passivity leads
to failure
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Basic Belief about Learning

• Learning
• Making sense of the world
• Instruction
• Aiding that sense making

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Designing a Learning Environment

• Learning is a means to an end not simply an end
• The end determines what is learned
• Learning is active learning is by doing
• Learning is collaborative
• Learning is reflective
• There are opportunities to summarize what was
  learned and to consider other applications of the
  learning
• Parallel to debrief in business and after
  action review in the services