{"id":17253,"date":"2011-03-31T10:27:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T14:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=17253"},"modified":"2011-03-31T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:44:27","slug":"my-reflections-on-2-items-re-online-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/03\/31\/my-reflections-on-2-items-re-online-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"My reflections on 2 items re: online learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From DSC:<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>The first article\/item I want to comment on is:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandon-hall.com\/workplacelearningtoday\/?p=15711\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Potential Market for Courseware Developers<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from Brandon-Hall.com by Richard Nantel<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">First of all, thanks Richard for tackling this subject and for putting a posting out there regarding it. For years, I&#8217;ve wondered what the best way(s) is(are) to pursue the creation of professionally-done, interactive, personalized\/customized, multimedia-based, engaging content. It is expensive to create well-done materials and\/or the learning engines behind these materials. Also, as at the faith-based college where I work, some colleges would want a very specific kind of content or take a different slant on presenting the content.\u00a0 So the content would have to be modified &#8212; which would have an associated cost to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Some options that I&#8217;ve thought of: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Outsource the content creation to a team of specialists<\/strong> &#8212; at educationally-focused publishing companies out there<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Outsource the content creation to a team of specialists<\/strong> &#8212; at other solution providers focused on education<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Develop the content in-house with a <em>team <\/em>of specialists<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Don&#8217;t create content at all, but rather steer people to the streams of content that are already flowing out there. <\/strong>Some content may be changing so fast that it may not be worth the expense to create it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Have students create the content<\/strong> &#8212; that&#8217;s what school becomes. Learning enough to create\/teach the content to others. (This would require a great deal of cross-disciplinary collaboration and cooperation amongst faculty members.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">As a  relevant aside,<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> I have held that if an organization could raise the  capital and the teams to develop this type of engaging,  professionally-done content &#8212; and scale the solution &#8212; they could  become the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvin.edu\/~dsc8\/walmartofeducation.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Forthcoming Walmart of Education<\/a>. <\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The attractive piece of this for families\/students out there would be that this type of education will come at a 50%+ discount.<\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The second article\/item that caused some additional reflection here was the article at The Chronicle of Higher Education by Marc Parry entitled, <\/span><\/em>&#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/think-youll-make-big-bucks-in-online-ed-not-so-fast-experts-say\/30663\" target=\"_blank\">Think You\u2019ll Make Big Bucks in Online Ed? Not So Fast, Experts Say<\/a><\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>What if the United States could reallocate even the cost of 1-2 high-end planes in the United States Air Force? Our nation could create stunning, engaging content that could reach <em>millions <\/em>of people on any given subject <\/strong>&#8212; as online learning has the potential to be highly scalable (though I realize that much of this depends upon how much involvement an organization wants to integrate into the delivery\/teaching of this content in terms of their instructors&#8217;\/professors&#8217; time). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Anyway, Marc highlights some important points &#8212; that creating content, marketing that content, etc. can be expensive. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>But I have it that if you don&#8217;t get into this online learning game, you won&#8217;t be relevant in the years to come.<\/strong> People want convenience and students&#8217; expectations will continue to rise &#8212; wanting to learn on their own pace, per their own schedule, from any place and on any device; finally, they will want to have more opportunities to participate\/collaborate\/control their own learning experiences. (And this doesn&#8217;t even touch upon whether it will become even more difficult to get through &#8220;the gate&#8221;\u00a0 &#8212; that is, getting the student&#8217;s attention in order to make it into their short-term memory, in hopes of then moving the lesson\/information into long-term memory.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: The first article\/item I want to comment on is: A Potential Market for Courseware Developers &#8212; from Brandon-Hall.com by Richard Nantel First of all, thanks Richard for tackling this subject and for putting a posting out there regarding it. For years, I&#8217;ve wondered what the best way(s) is(are) to pursue the creation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,57,159,72,347,32,237,36,35,3,180,119,74,7,62,69,310,20,212,11],"tags":[568,627,413,290,296,606,739,691,586,585,566,229,629,607,601,70,722,579,678,573,572],"class_list":["post-17253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-education-reform","category-education-technology","category-entrepreneurship","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-leadership","category-learning-ecosystem","category-online-learning","category-personalizedcustomized-learning","category-staying-relevant","category-strategy","category-surviving","category-vision-possibilities","tag-568","tag-21st-century","tag-24x7x365","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-customized-learning","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-education-reform","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-higher-education","tag-ideas","tag-instructional-design","tag-leadership","tag-online-learning","tag-personalized-learning","tag-staying-relevant","tag-strategy","tag-surviving","tag-vision","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17253"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17303,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17253\/revisions\/17303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}