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Jun182001
206 - My Experiences with an e-Coach; Streaming Video as a Classroom Takeaway
June 18, 2001
1. My Experiences with an e-Coach: Over the next few months, you will hear a bit about my experience with an e-Coach. In order to continue to get healthier (code word for loose weight and exercise more), I have hired an e-Coach. This person is located in Texas and is coaching me on a daily (and often twice a day) basis on my eating patterns and exercise activities.
As you can guess, I am curious how coaching will be experienced from the recipient side, so I am making myself the subject. For the past few weeks, my coach and I have been getting to know each other and are
establishing ways of working together. We have had a few telephone calls, but most of the contact is through instant messenger and email. I am keeping a real time database of food consumption and exercise activity, which she can monitor on a real time basis.
Learnings so far include: The continuous nature of the counseling
relationship is awesome. Rather than check in once and a while, I feel as though I have true on-going support. The sharing of data through a shared database is a lot easier than “reporting” my eating patterns verbally. And, the instant messenger process has made me feel very focused on my goals and this important life change. Figuring out how to pay someone for this process has been interesting. And, I am eating much better, exercising almost every day and have lost a few pounds. Stay tuned for more.
We believe that e-Coaching will be a big part of blended learning in the future. I am working with Marshall Goldsmith, one of the leading
management coaches in the world, to help define new models of e-coaching. Marshall will demonstrate actual senior level remote e-coaching live from London during TechLearn 2001 in October. (www.techlearn.com)
2. Streaming Video as a Classroom Takeaway: When you take a class at The
MASIE Center, you now get a complete stream of every moment to take away,
the moment the class is over. We have been experimenting with capturing
and compressing every minute of our Skills for e-Trainers courses. We use
4 robotic cameras to create the video. It is then streamable for all
alumni, who can replay any segment of the event. If someone comes in
late, we hand them a CD a few minutes later with all of the session to
date. It is intriguing to see how students value and use the streamed
content. One person in the last class send the URL for a specific segment
to their boss to view at the end of the first day so that he could get
feedback and ask me a very specific question at the start of the next day.
The classroom opens up to become a capture and publish environment as
well as a teaching space. (Future sessions of Skills for e-Trainers are
scheduled in June and September: www.masie.com)
3. Dublin e-Learning Event Focuses on Global Trends: In a few weeks we
will be holding our second annual e-Learning Europe briefing in Dublin,
Ireland. We are pleased to announce that a major segment of this session
will focus on TRENDS around the world in adoption of e-Learning. As we
look at each country and region, the pattern of implementation changes,
often influenced by the history of how people learned in their earlier
days as students. We will address the Global Trends in e-Learning
adoption on July 9 and 10th in Dublin, Ireland. Go to www.masie.com for
details.
As you can guess, I am curious how coaching will be experienced from the recipient side, so I am making myself the subject. For the past few weeks, my coach and I have been getting to know each other and are
establishing ways of working together. We have had a few telephone calls, but most of the contact is through instant messenger and email. I am keeping a real time database of food consumption and exercise activity, which she can monitor on a real time basis.
Learnings so far include: The continuous nature of the counseling
relationship is awesome. Rather than check in once and a while, I feel as though I have true on-going support. The sharing of data through a shared database is a lot easier than “reporting” my eating patterns verbally. And, the instant messenger process has made me feel very focused on my goals and this important life change. Figuring out how to pay someone for this process has been interesting. And, I am eating much better, exercising almost every day and have lost a few pounds. Stay tuned for more.
We believe that e-Coaching will be a big part of blended learning in the future. I am working with Marshall Goldsmith, one of the leading
management coaches in the world, to help define new models of e-coaching. Marshall will demonstrate actual senior level remote e-coaching live from London during TechLearn 2001 in October. (www.techlearn.com)
2. Streaming Video as a Classroom Takeaway: When you take a class at The
MASIE Center, you now get a complete stream of every moment to take away,
the moment the class is over. We have been experimenting with capturing
and compressing every minute of our Skills for e-Trainers courses. We use
4 robotic cameras to create the video. It is then streamable for all
alumni, who can replay any segment of the event. If someone comes in
late, we hand them a CD a few minutes later with all of the session to
date. It is intriguing to see how students value and use the streamed
content. One person in the last class send the URL for a specific segment
to their boss to view at the end of the first day so that he could get
feedback and ask me a very specific question at the start of the next day.
The classroom opens up to become a capture and publish environment as
well as a teaching space. (Future sessions of Skills for e-Trainers are
scheduled in June and September: www.masie.com)
3. Dublin e-Learning Event Focuses on Global Trends: In a few weeks we
will be holding our second annual e-Learning Europe briefing in Dublin,
Ireland. We are pleased to announce that a major segment of this session
will focus on TRENDS around the world in adoption of e-Learning. As we
look at each country and region, the pattern of implementation changes,
often influenced by the history of how people learned in their earlier
days as students. We will address the Global Trends in e-Learning
adoption on July 9 and 10th in Dublin, Ireland. Go to www.masie.com for
details.
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