Friday
Dec311999
117 - Component On-Line Learning Technologies from Australia
December 31, 1999
1. Component On-Line Learning Technologies from Australia: One of our
predictions for the development of learning technologies has been the
introduction of component tools. While a large amount of on-line learning
will be developed with authoring systems and delivered in training
management systems, there is a natural demand for the ability to integrate
learning tools on a component level. For example, a manager might want to
post a new policy on a corporate intranet and embed a few learning
activities into the page (chat, assignments, tests for comprehension).
Well, we just got a first glance of these tools in a press release from
Australia. The company is called Janison Solutions and they have put
together a component model that you can check out at :
http://www.jansol.com.au
Watch for many of these component technologies to emerge in the marketplace
over the next 18 months!
2. Defense Acquisition University Visit: We just finished presenting a
briefing in On-Line Trainer Skills to a great team of faculty and managers
at the Defense Acquisition University in Washington. This is one of the
educational arms of the Pentagon and they are doing a great job of pushing
the envelope of large scale on-line delivery. The faculty are building
content intensive courses that thousands of DOD employees are taking from
bases and offices around the world. They are a dedicated group that raised
all the "right" issues of how we balance the scalability of courses with our
natural instinct to deliver high impact faculty - student interactions.
Hats off to DAU for your leadership work!
3. Learning Quotation:
"In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be
stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge."
- Charles T. Tart
4. Working from Home: Training Teleworkers - One of the strategy issues
that has been raised for our upcoming Learning Decisions '99 retreat focuses
on expenditures for training aimed at teleworkers. Several of the training
officers have raised the issue of how organizations are allocating training
resources for teleworkers. Here are some of the questions posed:
* Are organizations allocating more, less or the same amount of training
resources for teleworking or mobile workers? Do they get less learning
resources than their colleagues who are present and visible at the office?
* What are some strategies that organizations are using to deliver learning
to this workforce? These could include technology delivery or in-person
training meetings. What seems to be working?
If you can contribute to this dialogue, would you please send us a note to
emasie@masie.com. I will post a summary on the website and also post the
results of the discussion at Learning Decisions. If you are a learning or
training officer or manager and would like to join the 212 folks registered
for Learning Decisions '99 to be held in Las Vegas on May 12 to 14, please
go to http://www.masie.com/decisions/
5. Thanks! Thanks a million to the 350 people who sent my mom a digital
birthday note. She said that she had the best birthday of her 89 year long
life. My warmest thanks! Let me know when your parent's birthday is and I
will send them a digital cake.
Upcoming MASIE Center Events: http://www.masie.com
* Learning Decisions '99 - Retreat for Training Decisions Makers - May 12 to
14 - Las Vegas
* TechLearn '99 - Reinventing Training - Oct 31 to Nov 3 - Orlando
predictions for the development of learning technologies has been the
introduction of component tools. While a large amount of on-line learning
will be developed with authoring systems and delivered in training
management systems, there is a natural demand for the ability to integrate
learning tools on a component level. For example, a manager might want to
post a new policy on a corporate intranet and embed a few learning
activities into the page (chat, assignments, tests for comprehension).
Well, we just got a first glance of these tools in a press release from
Australia. The company is called Janison Solutions and they have put
together a component model that you can check out at :
http://www.jansol.com.au
Watch for many of these component technologies to emerge in the marketplace
over the next 18 months!
2. Defense Acquisition University Visit: We just finished presenting a
briefing in On-Line Trainer Skills to a great team of faculty and managers
at the Defense Acquisition University in Washington. This is one of the
educational arms of the Pentagon and they are doing a great job of pushing
the envelope of large scale on-line delivery. The faculty are building
content intensive courses that thousands of DOD employees are taking from
bases and offices around the world. They are a dedicated group that raised
all the "right" issues of how we balance the scalability of courses with our
natural instinct to deliver high impact faculty - student interactions.
Hats off to DAU for your leadership work!
3. Learning Quotation:
"In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be
stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge."
- Charles T. Tart
4. Working from Home: Training Teleworkers - One of the strategy issues
that has been raised for our upcoming Learning Decisions '99 retreat focuses
on expenditures for training aimed at teleworkers. Several of the training
officers have raised the issue of how organizations are allocating training
resources for teleworkers. Here are some of the questions posed:
* Are organizations allocating more, less or the same amount of training
resources for teleworking or mobile workers? Do they get less learning
resources than their colleagues who are present and visible at the office?
* What are some strategies that organizations are using to deliver learning
to this workforce? These could include technology delivery or in-person
training meetings. What seems to be working?
If you can contribute to this dialogue, would you please send us a note to
emasie@masie.com. I will post a summary on the website and also post the
results of the discussion at Learning Decisions. If you are a learning or
training officer or manager and would like to join the 212 folks registered
for Learning Decisions '99 to be held in Las Vegas on May 12 to 14, please
go to http://www.masie.com/decisions/
5. Thanks! Thanks a million to the 350 people who sent my mom a digital
birthday note. She said that she had the best birthday of her 89 year long
life. My warmest thanks! Let me know when your parent's birthday is and I
will send them a digital cake.
Upcoming MASIE Center Events: http://www.masie.com
* Learning Decisions '99 - Retreat for Training Decisions Makers - May 12 to
14 - Las Vegas
* TechLearn '99 - Reinventing Training - Oct 31 to Nov 3 - Orlando
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