ALTP News January 20, 2001
Edited by Richard Brincefield

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Reminder: ALTP BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING (OPEN)

Wednesday, January 24, 2001
7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. 

• Phoenix: US WEST, 3033 N. Third St., Room 208.09
• Tucson: US WEST, 333 E. Wetmore, Room 323

Dial-in attendance: contact tkraver@qwest.net

ACTION AGENDA         Saturday,  January 20, 2001

Arizona Learning Technology Partnership, Inc.
Governors Strategic Partnership for Economic Development

I. NOTES FROM THE DELPHI E-LEARNING CONF AT THE WIGWAM

II. NEW ENTERPRISE JOINS GROWING COMMUNITY OF ONLINE SCHOOLS

III. COMMENT FROM PATRICK, THANKS

IV. COMMENTS IN PRIOR ACTION AGENDA – RIGHT ON (Ted the Ed)

V. THEME: "COGNITIVE SKILLS ACQUISITION IN LIFE-LONG LEARNING"

10. WISDOM BYTES

Editor’s Prerogative: I have reframed from the Gore-Bush drama since it is tangent to ALTP alignment; up until know. This was sent by a friend, and I could not resist just one:

I was recently watching a video of that old 1948 thriller "Key Largo" with Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, and Lionel Barrymore. I practically fell out of my chair at one point when Robinson (playing a gangster as only he could) says to the good guy (Bogart):

"Let me tell you about Florida politicians. I make them out of whole cloth, just like a tailor makes a suit. I get their name in the newspaper. I get them some publicity and get them on the ballot. Then after the election, we count the votes. And if they don't turn out right, we recount them. And recount them again. Until they do."

And now back to the quest.

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I. NOTES FROM THE DELPHI E-LEARNING CONF AT THE WIGWAM

Last week I had the marvelous opportunity to attend and also present a paper at a major 3 day e-Learning Summit put on by the Delphi Group from Boston MA 02109 www.delphigroup.com. I cannot begin to summarize three intense days with 150+ e-Learning practitioners and vendors, so here are a set of one-liners from a to z:

1. e-Learning generates capability and facilities change resulting in financial performance and business growth;
2. Learning agility and performance have a .72 correlation;
3. Velocity means episodic state transitions are replaced with continuous change;
4. Learning must equal or exceed the level of change for success;
5. Data => Information => Knowledge =. Wisdom
6. Learning is the process of turning information into knowledge cause effective action.
7. Training is Many to 1; Learning is 1 to1; e-Learning is many to many;
8. Maturity Model for e-Learning: 1. Strong technology platform, infrastructure; 2. Build, buy and source content with strategic alliances; 3. Align capacity development with organizational goals; create integrated mass-customized solutions for individual, team, organization and customer.
9. Integrate Knowledge systems with E-Learning systems;
10. Learners: 10% self-developers, 60% passive/reactive, 30% blocked.
11. Cisco: 80% support issues resolved at Cisco.com, saves $0.5 billion.
12. Cisco: 80%+ training online.
13. Cisco: One year from start to fully effective field e-Learning system
14. Cisco: e-Learning now ready to migrate to customers;
15. E-Learning: Any time, place; customized education content; interactive learning involving real world task;
16. 3M philosophy legal, ethical and upsets status quo, changes rules of game and increases value to customer;
17. "Ultimately, becoming a learning organization, requires first becoming a teacher organization." Dr. Peter Drucker
18. E-Learning is just-in-time personalized education integrated with high velocity value chains.
19. E-Learning has gone from $100 M to $5 B in 10 years, but not yet at "tipping" point. Companies small, adoption fragmented. Cisco, IBM, GE are adoption leaders.
20. A little things can make a big difference as we approach Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell’s book.)
21. Need enough good content and quantifiable value proposition.
22. Value proposition: manages an organization’s competency, addresses strategic business initiatives, and combines e-learning and information management into knowledge asset management;
23. E-Learning is only critical business process that touches every enterprise constituent;
24. Huge potential $100+++ billion market, will make e-mail look like a rounding error;
25. Saba is rolling out a national (4 Million-Norway) Internet-based learning network;
26. Cardean.edu us using the brands of Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, Carnegie Mellon and London School of Economics and in the neighborhood of $1 million a course to create 100+ courses for their online MBA.

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II. NEW ENTERPRISE JOINS GROWING COMMUNITY OF ONLINE SCHOOLS

104-year-old Calvert School in Baltimore, whose Home Instruction Division has become "quite a big business," having taught more than 400,000 students in 50 countries will be joined next fall by K12.com, a new Internet-based school. K12.com is due to enroll its first students in grades K through 2 this fall and then add three grades each year until they reach a full K-through-12 audience. The new endeavor is backed with an initial $10 million from Knowledge Universe Learning Group, and will be headed by Former U.S. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, an avowed skeptic about the educational utility of the computer. Critics have said they see some value to online educational programs, but only as supplements to traditional classroom programs. Promotional materials from the new venture assert that they will offer "world-class education to any elementary and secondary student who is interested -- regardless of...how much money their family makes."

[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Margaret W. Goldsborough] (http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/24/technology/24EDUCATION.html)

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III. COMMENT FROM PATRICK, THANKS

I suppose I am one of your quiet recipients, but I do read your agenda messages closely. In the last issue, you described the Price Waterhouse Coopers contract with the Army, including mention of its 29 consortium institutions. Were you aware that one of those 29 colleges is Rio Salado College, the leading distance learning higher education institution in Arizona? I develop and teach CIS courses for Rio, and I have read the contract signed there. Rio will be developing several technical and CIS certificate programs for this initiative, and expects a high enrollment because it is the only one of those 29 colleges that offers course starting every two weeks, rather than anchored to a traditional semester or trimester schedule. Anyway, I thought you may want to pass that along to your readers.

>From: patrickm@az.rmci.net

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IV. COMMENTS IN PRIOR ACTION AGENDA – RIGHT ON (Ted the Ed)

YOU WROTE: Former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett in the past month

signed on as chairman of K12, a kindergarten-through-high-school Web-based school with $10 million in funding from Knowledge Universe Learning Group.

YOU WROTE: One area where online education is likely to become more prevalent is at the graduate business school level, a market segment where publicly traded Apollo Group has a jump-start with its University of Phoenix Online. Another for-profit MBA-level initiative is Pearson FT Knowledge unit. In contrast to the for-profit University of Phoenix online, it has teamed up with the University of Michigan and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to post business courses on the Web and plans to do the same with Britain's prestigious Cambridge University.

YOU WROTE: * Global Schoolhouse - Month-by-month calendar of "telecollaborative" projects being undertaken by teachers worldwide.

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V. THEME: "COGNITIVE SKILLS ACQUISITION IN LIFE-LONG LEARNING"

Ever ask the question of what basic research is needed to produce design tools for effective learning technology software based products? If you can understand the simple Introduction below, you have a start. If you can read and understand the papers in this upcoming journal, then I want to have a talk with you. (Ted the Ed.)

Special issue of 'Interactive Learning Environments' journal (ISSN 1049-4820)

* Important dates:

Paper submission Friday 2 February 2001

Final version Friday 13 July 2001

Publication November 2001

* Introduction:

Cognitive skills are concerned with analysis, interpretation and decision making processes required for performing the procedural tasks. T he development of cognitive skill demands a more sophisticated learning process as much of its process runs inside a human mind and may largely rely on self-explanations as a learner studies an example and attempts a given problem.

It is easier for a learning system researcher, designer or implementer to consider the facilitation of physical skills due to their external visibility, but it seems important to have stronger focus on cognitive skills acquisition, particularly for life long learners who may not be learning in the traditional setting.

We invite discussion on these and related issues with a view to better understand the emerging trends in research, design and implementation of systems for cognitive skills acquisition in life-long learning.

* Guest editor: Kinshuk Information Systems Department

Massey University, Private Bag 11-222

Palmerston North, New Zealand

Email: kinshuk@massey.ac.nz or kinshuk@mailandnews.com

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X. WISDOM BYTES:

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

-- Winston Churchill

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

-- Henri Frederic Amiel

All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.

-- Julian Simon

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