Developing an e-Learning Strategy and Architecture – Lance Dublin (Elluminate Webinar)

Developing an e-Learning Strategy and Architecture – Lance Dublin

This was my first Elluminate webinar and it was quite neat to see a different format then I have seen before. One tool I haven’t used before was a whiteboard that participants can add too and slides can be altered as the presenter speaks. All participants can use a mic if wanted.

Webinar points:

Yesterday’s communication – same time , same place (ie: meetings, phone calls)
Today’s Communication – any time, any place (ie: chants, blogs, wikis, virtual offices)

Strategy – the way we get there:

eLearning Pathway might have been as…..(9 elements)
discover, envision, understand, analyze, define, enlist, plan, implement, learn

Doesn’t really happen this way. Much more like putting several pieces of an elearning architecture together. It is more like including the above 9 elements, but not in a particular order.

Discover – what is the purpose of your organization, type of environment, how your place works
Envision – create a vision, something to draw and motivate people
Understand – identify gaps you may have in getting to where you want to go with your learning
Analyze – learn about all the types of learning options that you may have
Define –
Enlist – emplementing, business case (next webinar)
Plan and Implement – (next webinar)

Architecture – the place you want to get

Ad Hoc Model:
do you have info – documents, websites, etc.
do you have training – paper based, instructor lead, videos, etc
do you have elearning – we had a course and now we deliver over the internet

Foundations for Learning (Bloom) (Rube Goldberg):
Need for Knowledge – job aids, remembering info
Comprehension – job aid and on the job training
Application – self-paced training, and OJT
Analysis – instructor led and OJT
Synthesis – developing training for others

Now we need to find/develop the right learning product for the right learner and the right situation.

Ensuring Performance:
we could give a person more support, tools, information, learning

Fastest way to improve their performance
Most participants chose the answer as TOOLS.
The slowest way to get there is Learning.
A great way is support – bringing the info when they need it.

Process Perspective:
Performance can be helped/enhanced by taking data/info through requirements, using tools like job aids, webinars, etc, creating some applications, that the user can then take to better their performance.

Content Perspective:
Sometimes organizations want to push content/courses. (formal)
Sometimes staff need to find info and pull it from searches, OJT, mentors, chats, collaboration.
Sometimes it needs to be embedded into the work, performance support systems, expert systems, workflow learning

Time/Place Perspective:
Physical —-
same time same place – classes, ojt
same time, any place – webinars
Virtual—-
any time, same place – job aids
any time, any place – elearning

Question is…how do you blend them successfully all together? This is the world we are moving into.

Examples:

Strategy—Technology
Learning from collocation–face-to-face (learning labs, mentoring, role playing)
Learn from collaboration–collaborative (e-labs, virtual classrooms)
learn from interaction–multimedia
learn from information–internet

Moving from Aware, to conceptual, to functional, to competent, to expert using…
basic information, structured information, applied learning, action learning