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238 - Learning On-Line vs. e-Learning & A Season of Deals Starts: IBM and Thomson Learning
July 23, 2002
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*** Elliott Masie's TechLearn TRENDS ***
Training, e-Learning and Collaboration Updates
Published by The MASIE Center www.masie.com
Host of: TechLearn 2002 - Oct 27-30 - Orlando, FL
1. Learning On-Line vs. e-Learning?
2. A Season of Deals Starts: IBM and Thomson Learning
3. TechLearn Advisors Expanded: More than 415 and YOU!
Back After a Lull: I took a few weeks off from sending out TechLearn
TRENDS in order to give my fingers a rest and to think about some of the
key issues that we are facing as learning and technology mature. You will
see a series of TRENDS from now until TechLearn 2002 in October.
1. Learning On-Line vs. e-Learning? I was struck by how an answer changes
depending on how you phrase the question. I usually ask audiences at my
keynote speeches about their experiences with e-Learning or On-Line
Learning? When I ask how many people in the audience have recently taken
an On-Line Course, the response is often between 20 and 30 percent.
One day, my tongue got a bit tied and I asked the question with a few
changes. “How many of you have learned things on-line recently?”
Suddenly, almost 98% of the hands in the audience went up. I was shocked
until I realized how I had fundamentally changed the question.
People are very aggressively using the internet as an active, informal and
spontaneous learning and knowledge tool. So, when you ask about the TACIT
LEARNING that is being done on-line, the percentages so SKY HIGH!
Ask your colleagues the same question. You will be amazed at the
difference. So, part of our challenge is to define our arena in the
broader sense of both FORMAL and TACIT learning programs. Taking a
structured, beginning to end e-Learning program is likely to remain as
small a percentage of yearly learning for a worker as the attendance in a
formal classroom training session. I would love to hear from TechLearn
TRENDS readers on this topic. Send a note to Elliott@masie.com and I will
summarize your comments next week.
2. A Season of Deals Starts: IBM and Thomson Learning: Watch for a wave
of deals, mergers, strategic relationships and new technology
announcements as we head for September, the “start of the school year”.
These are being driven by positive and negative things in the learning
marketplace. You will hear about a half dozen to dozen major “deals” in
the next eight weeks.
IBM and Thomson Learning announced a major strategic partnership today.
They are combining forces on several fronts to face the e-Learning
marketplace with a range of common products and services. Thomson
Learning has done quite the expansion into this space in the past year.
Their press release is at http://www.thomsonlearning.com
3. TechLearn Advisors Expanded: 415 and You! TechLearn is unique in
how we build the content and schedule. Rather than rely mainly on vendor
workshops and the session proposals from folks that are on the speaking
circuit, we build the conference from scratch each year, using a large
group of learning and training colleagues.. We would like to invite you
to join our Advisor group, providing us with input on the key issues and
topics that we should address at TechLearn and reacting to the content
road map. We already have 415 TechLearn Advisors, but we would love to
have your engagement. If you would like to be a TechLearn Advisor, please
send a note with your name, organization, title and email to hk@masie.com
Upcoming Events:
- TechLearn 2002 and World e-Learning CONGRESS
October 27 to 30, Orlando, Florida,
http://www.techlearn.com
*** Elliott Masie's TechLearn TRENDS ***
Training, e-Learning and Collaboration Updates
Published by The MASIE Center www.masie.com
Host of: TechLearn 2002 - Oct 27-30 - Orlando, FL
1. Learning On-Line vs. e-Learning?
2. A Season of Deals Starts: IBM and Thomson Learning
3. TechLearn Advisors Expanded: More than 415 and YOU!
Back After a Lull: I took a few weeks off from sending out TechLearn
TRENDS in order to give my fingers a rest and to think about some of the
key issues that we are facing as learning and technology mature. You will
see a series of TRENDS from now until TechLearn 2002 in October.
1. Learning On-Line vs. e-Learning? I was struck by how an answer changes
depending on how you phrase the question. I usually ask audiences at my
keynote speeches about their experiences with e-Learning or On-Line
Learning? When I ask how many people in the audience have recently taken
an On-Line Course, the response is often between 20 and 30 percent.
One day, my tongue got a bit tied and I asked the question with a few
changes. “How many of you have learned things on-line recently?”
Suddenly, almost 98% of the hands in the audience went up. I was shocked
until I realized how I had fundamentally changed the question.
People are very aggressively using the internet as an active, informal and
spontaneous learning and knowledge tool. So, when you ask about the TACIT
LEARNING that is being done on-line, the percentages so SKY HIGH!
Ask your colleagues the same question. You will be amazed at the
difference. So, part of our challenge is to define our arena in the
broader sense of both FORMAL and TACIT learning programs. Taking a
structured, beginning to end e-Learning program is likely to remain as
small a percentage of yearly learning for a worker as the attendance in a
formal classroom training session. I would love to hear from TechLearn
TRENDS readers on this topic. Send a note to Elliott@masie.com and I will
summarize your comments next week.
2. A Season of Deals Starts: IBM and Thomson Learning: Watch for a wave
of deals, mergers, strategic relationships and new technology
announcements as we head for September, the “start of the school year”.
These are being driven by positive and negative things in the learning
marketplace. You will hear about a half dozen to dozen major “deals” in
the next eight weeks.
IBM and Thomson Learning announced a major strategic partnership today.
They are combining forces on several fronts to face the e-Learning
marketplace with a range of common products and services. Thomson
Learning has done quite the expansion into this space in the past year.
Their press release is at http://www.thomsonlearning.com
3. TechLearn Advisors Expanded: 415 and You! TechLearn is unique in
how we build the content and schedule. Rather than rely mainly on vendor
workshops and the session proposals from folks that are on the speaking
circuit, we build the conference from scratch each year, using a large
group of learning and training colleagues.. We would like to invite you
to join our Advisor group, providing us with input on the key issues and
topics that we should address at TechLearn and reacting to the content
road map. We already have 415 TechLearn Advisors, but we would love to
have your engagement. If you would like to be a TechLearn Advisor, please
send a note with your name, organization, title and email to hk@masie.com
Upcoming Events:
- TechLearn 2002 and World e-Learning CONGRESS
October 27 to 30, Orlando, Florida,
http://www.techlearn.com
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