Monday, December 11, 2000
Jay’s Notes

Learning on Demand Monthly Meeting

Topics:

• What was most important in eLearning last year?
• What do we see in eLearning for 2001?
• And what about further out?

2001 Meetings at SRI: Jan 22, Feb 26, March 19, April 23, May 21, June 18

Looking back at 2000

Steve S

• ebooks, collaborative spaces, video management
• social factors—how much of the classroom can be captured in the eLearning environment? Kaio University tracking this.
• WIDE = consortium of Fuji, Xerox, Sony,
• hype was big in 2000

David

• CBT à ASP, integrated platform, learning objects
• “Courses are for horses”

Group

• damaging idea: shrink-wrapped solution
• better to think in terms of co-development
• streaming video and audio as content
• lectures are dead, we’re all multitasking
• PowerPoint index lets one jump around in a video
• (like Eloquent being able to speed up and slow down the show)
• simplicity = the key to success
• conversely, complexity is a formula for disaster
• P2P³
• People to people
• Peer to peer
• Path to profitability
• Individual ways of learning valid, legitimacy recognized

Portal Software

• Where to draw the line between knowledge and instruction?
• How do we get SMEs to create content? How to teach them tagging?
• Intraspect – chucked the ontology to begin with, then just free text--nada. Like Autonomy engine, generates own topics.
• Knowledge management converging with eLearning?

Dave

• Regarding eLearningForum: standards—real? Implications? Open source?
• Interoperability for real?

Lee

• Many eLearning companies not eating their own dog food
• Autodesk – enabling competitors to post content on their site

Hurwitz duo

• Assimilation of eLearning into the business model
• Training to learning, content to context, point solutions to holistic
• Bottom-line impact made visible
• Intellectual capital, talent are top management issues

Intermezzon duo

• Softskills ascendent
• 2000 is the year eLearning got on the map
• financial analysts gung ho
• IPOs
• Simulation becoming more prominent – learn by doing

Doris

• What’s the difference between web-based documentation and eLearning?
• Looking heavily at Unext – good stuff there, problem-solving, give us your position
• Results of cognitive science
• Database-driven pages

Kristian

• Object orientation
• Going beyond version 1.0
• JIT

Eilif

• now 2,000 corporate universities
• need to cover Asia
• translation is not enough to localize in depth
• globalization
• role of associations in service of small business

Steve Suda

Focus on kids

Focus on people with learning disabilities

Melissa

• Stanford learning labs waiting to be pushed – and now it’s finally starting to happen; HBS/SBS relationship.
• Inet-now: web concierge service
• “Make an I-movie” – people creating content

Susan

• Community taking hold
• This applies to eLearningForum as well
• Research need = more productive collaborative learning

Jay

• eLearning has become the buzzword of choice
• Top management buys it as the way to do ebusiness and transformation

Five years out

• Intelligent systems – learning built-in – when you need it
• Military a threat or a boon?
• XML enabling the computers to work with one another.
• Standards – dynamic

• “my meaning of artifacts is that they are artifactual”
• ba = space, from basho = the canopy over the Sumo mat. Shared space has an impact on understanding.
• Brand equity in the future will be access and mining of intellectual capital within the enterprise. Skill mining.
• Continuous unlearning.
• Wireless à ubiquitous computing .
• Also brings up issue of what’s focal.
• What will be the role of the periphery?
• Autodesk example: real-time changes to maps from the field
• Relevance for developing nations.
• What will the users need five years from now? Technology will be infiltrating our lives more and more. Kids entering the system and the workforce will have a different perspective on this. Will we have smartcars and smart roads?
• Portable credentials?
• What’s the role of the teacher in the future?
• What are kids doing outside school?
• Relationship of eLearning content & environment
• Continuous unlearning

eLearningForum’s future

eLearningForum: Track technologies that are important to watch. (on the website?) Wireless hype is extreme. This is years away.

Steve Suda

• How to make our meetings useful
• Diverse group
• Break into tech, business aspects
• More effective use of the website
• Password presentation

Melissa

• Make it more participatory
• Interactive

• meetings: Bring some customers. Bring some that are doing not so well.

website suggestions

• networking….
• post member info on website.
• community of practice
• thought leaders in research
• track companies on the site, funding
• get the discussion section working