Friday
Dec311999
131 - Exit Checks Proposed & UNext Enters On-Line Graduate Course Field
December 31, 1999
1. Exit Checks Proposed: Let's Gather Data on Departures: I would like to
use TechLearn Trends as a mild "bully tool" to suggest a new feature that
should be added to both authoring tools, learning systems and on-line
content collections. Let's call it an Exit Check. A simple box would pop
up whenever a learner was exiting an on-line learning event. They would be
asked WHY? and WHAT NEXT? WHY are they leaving now. Are they "done", are
they needing to do something else, are they finished with a segment or did
they not get what they need? WHAT NEXT would ask are they coming back soon,
do they want to be reminded, are they done forever? This data would be
enormously helpful to both developers, designers, administrators and would
allow the sponsoring organization to fine tune their offerings. An Exit
Check should be quick to fill out (2 or 3 clicks) and may could be done on a
confidential basis. Let's see some Exit Check models from authoring tool
and content companies.
2. learningauction.com Launching in July from The MASIE Center. We are
pleased to announce an experiment from The MASIE Center, learningauction.com
In early July, we will open the site as a totally non-fee based service to
allow organizations and individuals to offer and purchase learning and
training services and materials using an auction model. Here are a few of
the ways in which learningauction.com will work:
* A company may want to offer for sale a set of 100 books on leadership that
they are no longer using. Other organizations will place bids and the high
bidder wins. All arrangements will be made directly.
* A training group may have 4 extra spaces left in a class. They will
offer these seats to the highest bidder.
* A company may have a collection of video tapes or cd's providing learning
on a computer topic. They may want to DONATE them to a non-profit charity.
The non-profits will be able to place a request to receive the materials
(only paying for the shipping charges).
* A subject matter expert may offer their services as a telephone based
COACH for an hour. These services will be available for either a fixed or
auction based price.
* A web design company may have a week of unscheduled time. They may offer
their services for auction.
The MASIE Center is donating the technology to make this experiment happen.
We will not accept any fees or advertisements and there are NO CHARGES for
learningauction.com
If you would like to receive information on how to place your items or
services on this site, please go to http://www.learningauction.com and give
us your email address. We will send you a note in a few days with details.
The full site will open in the first week of July and we will announce it in
TechLearn Trends. We are excited to learn from the results of this
experiment.
3. UNext Enters On-Line Graduate Course Field: Four more major
universities have signed agreements with UNext.com, that plans to deliver
graduate-level courses electronically to corporate employees starting this
year.
UNext.com has struck deals with the University of Chicago, Stanford
University, Carnegie Mellon University and the London School of Economics
and Political Science. Along with Columbia University's business school,
the first school that signed on, each school plans to help UNext.com
create course materials that it can sell to major corporations for
employee training and education.
International Business Machines Corp. was the first company to sign up as a
customer of what UNext.com describes as an "online business-education
community called Cardean" -- named for a Roman goddess -- that will allow
employees to take courses electronically on their own schedule, from work or
home or even while traveling. The courses will be delivered through a
product created by IBM's Lotus Development unit called LearningSpace, and
Lotus's sales force will sell the educational materials to its corporate
customers around the world. The web site is http://www.unext.com
4. Learning Quotation: Dr. Leila Denmark
"Anything on earth you want to do is play. Anything on earth you have to do
is work. Play will never kill you, work will. I never worked a day in my
life."
Dr. Leila Denmark, age: 100
5. TechLearn Developers & Designers Sessions: We have added a series of
sessions and lab events at TechLearn '99 for folks that are developers and
designers of learning programs. In addition to our wide scope of seminars
and topics, we wanted to provide the 200 or so developers and designers at
TechLearn '99 with an opportunity to go "under the hood" and share their
instructional design and development strategies with each other. If you
are a developer or designer and would like to volunteer a program for us to
"dissect" and discuss, please send an email to us at
developers@techlearn.com
Complete details on TechLearn '99 are available at http://www.techlearn.com
Registration limited to 2,500 participants ... 1,323 colleagues registered already!
use TechLearn Trends as a mild "bully tool" to suggest a new feature that
should be added to both authoring tools, learning systems and on-line
content collections. Let's call it an Exit Check. A simple box would pop
up whenever a learner was exiting an on-line learning event. They would be
asked WHY? and WHAT NEXT? WHY are they leaving now. Are they "done", are
they needing to do something else, are they finished with a segment or did
they not get what they need? WHAT NEXT would ask are they coming back soon,
do they want to be reminded, are they done forever? This data would be
enormously helpful to both developers, designers, administrators and would
allow the sponsoring organization to fine tune their offerings. An Exit
Check should be quick to fill out (2 or 3 clicks) and may could be done on a
confidential basis. Let's see some Exit Check models from authoring tool
and content companies.
2. learningauction.com Launching in July from The MASIE Center. We are
pleased to announce an experiment from The MASIE Center, learningauction.com
In early July, we will open the site as a totally non-fee based service to
allow organizations and individuals to offer and purchase learning and
training services and materials using an auction model. Here are a few of
the ways in which learningauction.com will work:
* A company may want to offer for sale a set of 100 books on leadership that
they are no longer using. Other organizations will place bids and the high
bidder wins. All arrangements will be made directly.
* A training group may have 4 extra spaces left in a class. They will
offer these seats to the highest bidder.
* A company may have a collection of video tapes or cd's providing learning
on a computer topic. They may want to DONATE them to a non-profit charity.
The non-profits will be able to place a request to receive the materials
(only paying for the shipping charges).
* A subject matter expert may offer their services as a telephone based
COACH for an hour. These services will be available for either a fixed or
auction based price.
* A web design company may have a week of unscheduled time. They may offer
their services for auction.
The MASIE Center is donating the technology to make this experiment happen.
We will not accept any fees or advertisements and there are NO CHARGES for
learningauction.com
If you would like to receive information on how to place your items or
services on this site, please go to http://www.learningauction.com and give
us your email address. We will send you a note in a few days with details.
The full site will open in the first week of July and we will announce it in
TechLearn Trends. We are excited to learn from the results of this
experiment.
3. UNext Enters On-Line Graduate Course Field: Four more major
universities have signed agreements with UNext.com, that plans to deliver
graduate-level courses electronically to corporate employees starting this
year.
UNext.com has struck deals with the University of Chicago, Stanford
University, Carnegie Mellon University and the London School of Economics
and Political Science. Along with Columbia University's business school,
the first school that signed on, each school plans to help UNext.com
create course materials that it can sell to major corporations for
employee training and education.
International Business Machines Corp. was the first company to sign up as a
customer of what UNext.com describes as an "online business-education
community called Cardean" -- named for a Roman goddess -- that will allow
employees to take courses electronically on their own schedule, from work or
home or even while traveling. The courses will be delivered through a
product created by IBM's Lotus Development unit called LearningSpace, and
Lotus's sales force will sell the educational materials to its corporate
customers around the world. The web site is http://www.unext.com
4. Learning Quotation: Dr. Leila Denmark
"Anything on earth you want to do is play. Anything on earth you have to do
is work. Play will never kill you, work will. I never worked a day in my
life."
Dr. Leila Denmark, age: 100
5. TechLearn Developers & Designers Sessions: We have added a series of
sessions and lab events at TechLearn '99 for folks that are developers and
designers of learning programs. In addition to our wide scope of seminars
and topics, we wanted to provide the 200 or so developers and designers at
TechLearn '99 with an opportunity to go "under the hood" and share their
instructional design and development strategies with each other. If you
are a developer or designer and would like to volunteer a program for us to
"dissect" and discuss, please send an email to us at
developers@techlearn.com
Complete details on TechLearn '99 are available at http://www.techlearn.com
Registration limited to 2,500 participants ... 1,323 colleagues registered already!
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