Elearning around the world

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• E-learning around the world
• Dr Gilly Salmon
• May 2000
• Open University Business School

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• Versions of this presentation were made, in May
  2000 to
• Qantas College Sydney
• Australian Graduate School Management, UNSW
  Sydney
• Monash University Melbourne
• Techworks Adelaide, in Melbourne
• Korowa School , Melbourne
• ICUS Singapore

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Developing, combining and converging
technologies
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Ideas of Knowledge (4)

• individual
• personal
• constructed and collaborative
• images and words
• practical and useful
• intercultural
• provides a special map

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Learning online
LIFE
LEARNING
work
International cross cultural

• NETWORKING Interaction

KNOWLEDGE
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.NEAR FUTURE(1)

• wealth of digital devices
• including our mobile telephones
• our Televisions
• our wristwatches,
• our Personal Digital Assistant (PDA),
• our household appliances

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NEAR FUTURE (2)

• companies reporting on their corporate
  universities to attract both employees and
  investment
• restructuring, downsizing and deregulation

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FUTURE 5 Es

• SHIFT FROM TEACHER TO LEARNER
• FROM CAMPUS TO LEARNER
• LEARNING SHOPPERS

• entertainment
• ethics
• equity
• excellence
• empowerment (to learners)

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Concepts of Time

• Not all at the same time
• Not in the same place
• Just for now
• Just for me

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Courage and Creativity is needed (and lots of
money)

• 3 Mill. US ONE Web degree programme
• US 3.4 billion-loss of value technology
  orgsfiltering of quality processes businesses
• large scale organisational changes
• overseas partners plus web products potential
  chaos rising costs!
• quality assurance adds huge costs
• success dependent on reputation and branding
  sustaining
• students and corporations widening choice

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Responses

• Collaboration investment possible and business
  success
• complex partnerships - some new to education,
  some alliances with brand names
• High levels of private investment

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Fragmentation of market provision for online
learning

• Courses offered? E.g. in Australia TAFE
  collegesflexible learningonline learning
  (multimedia)
• By whom (universities, public/private companies,
  combinations
• To whom? (individuals, employees,groups, teams)
• How? (page turning, learning management systems)

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Niche Education and Training Providers

• Mono-technics (excelling in one subject)
• concentrate resources and compete

• Web courses promote equality and access?

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CORPORATE UNIVERSITIES AND HARNESSING (US)

• 100 colleges in the US have closed
• 1600 corporate universities or colleges (from
  400)
• by 2003 in US 30 of in-house training and
  education online

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CORPORATE TRAINING WORLDWIDE permanently on
digital world

• from courses to performance support models in
  professional development.
• searchable knowledge-bases - links with knowledge
  management processes
• learning peers
• online mentor and support agents
• by 2002 2.2 million e-learning students
• companies reporting on their corporate
  unvirsities to attract both employees and
  investment

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BUT!

• online courses are no quick fix (time,money,
  design, support,expertise of users)
• staff rebellion-revising and reviewing roles
• intellectual property rights.
• technological reliability and scalability
• quality assurance in course content
• regional or national (global?) accreditation

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International takeovers and expansion, consortia,
media companies, public/private global
partnerships

• Nord Anglia (UK for-profit) took over
  Christchurch Design and Art College in NZ, Sylvan
  Learning Systems 54 purchase in Spanish
  University, De Vry educational acquisitions
  including Denver Technical College, University of
  Phoenix campus in Rotterdam (plans for Germany,
  Spain Ireland)
• Universitas 21 (23 research-led unversities plus
  Eurospace 2000- includes 45 Euro universities)
• News International Worldwide Learning Ltd,
  Pearsons FT Knowledge, Addison Wesley Longman
  (Oz)
• MIT and Cambridge university alliance funded by
  UK tax payer
• Honeywell (technology) and Capella University-
  customised MBA
• UNEXT.com (technology) signed 3 leading business
  schools
• prestigious universities, libraries,museums and
  publishers (e.g. Smithsonian Inst, New York
  public library, Cambridge Univ. Press, LSE)
  Fathom (online lectures, seminars
  performances)

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Will there be a Global Elite?

• Oxford
• Cambridge
• Stanford
• Harvard
• MIT
• Insead - France
• IMD - Switzerland

• Who will it be in Australia?
• Who will lead corporate learning and training
  here?
• Do the English speaking countries have an
  advantage?
• Should Australia exploit its great locations?

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