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News March 31, 2001
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ACTION AGENDA Saturday, March 31, 2001Arizona Learning Technology Partnership, Inc.
After reading this conceptual draft, we would welcome critical comments and interest in participating. Contact me directly at tkraver@qwest.net or 602-944-8557(o) The heart of the ALTP go forward plan is to immediately launch the creation of the Arizona E-Learning Technology Economic Cluster (AELTEC???). Situation => Poised: Five years ago, the Arizona Learning Technology Partnership was founded to advocate for accelerated technology adoption in K-12 education. They produced a wide-ranging, stakeholder created, strategic plan. Success has been slow and only partial, but Arizona is on the path. Over the past 9 months a wave of effort and energy has swept though Arizona under the banner of New Economy. GPEC and GTEC public meetings, E-learning portals, Arizona Economic Partnership, School Facilities Board, university technology transfer, E-learning companies, are among the many initiatives and institutions gaining strength. But they lack one vision, one over arching design, one framework, one system working in concert. It is time to focus on the enterprise side of learning technology if we are to move forward as a state. Vision => Action In 2005 Arizona has been accepted nationally as the center for E-Learning because of these action-realized achievements:
The ALTP had synthesize an interorganization design that brought over 20 Arizona stakeholder types into action coalitions. These coalitions were a driving force behind the Arizona e-learning vision and achievements in K-12 adoption. ALTP can continue to address adoption (1), but a new type of organization is need for 2 and 3. Opportunity Building on Arizona strengths demands integrating the three critical drivers: 1. Adoption: market purchases and use dramatically all economic aspects; 2. Enterprise: product and services sales volumes support adoption; 3. Research: results with rapid transfer to enterprise. The E-Learning industry is early enough on the growth at Arizona has a chance to a major player in the e-learning new economy. $100+ billion industries emerge and an average of every 10 years. Meat-packing, iron-steel, automobiles, oil, mini-computers, and semiconductor industries all had one main cluster in a city or region. These places profited greatly by being the hosting the centroid. Others industries like railroad, electricity, aviation, pharmaceutical and software defused into many cities. Like optics in 1990, the e-learning industry is up for grabs. Through a skilled and dedicated clustering effort, Tucson has developed itself into a leader in the optics industry, producing a $1 billion cluster of businesses from less than $50 million ten years ago. Over the 10 years this unique economic development expertise has been developed in Arizona. By using our cluster-stakeholder-foundation theories built on practice, Arizona could be the e-learning centroid. But to achieve the benefits leadership promises, almost every aspect of the Arizona economy has a role to play. I have used the designer’s privilege to imply stakeholder roles for current Arizona organizations. Design is prior to implementation. For implementation to work, a deeply participative stakeholder process is required. STAKEHOLDER IMPLEMENTATION => Adoption, Enterprise, Research ADOPTION -- Workforce: All employers within government, education, health care and business will commit to convert employee development to e-training and e-job skill education. Over the next decade they will shift from the focus on IT training to education for all employees in the soft skill and intellectual job performance areas. Of special importance is the development of curriculum and continuous delivery of professional development to Arizona’s 60,000 educators and trainers in K-12, college and university, and employer training programs. A statewide portal and learning management system could be used to deliver and administer formal e-education and training. ADOPTION – Formal Education and Training: Build in e-learning as the backbone for all Arizona formal education programs: K-12, post secondary specialty and industry specific schools, college, and university. All educators and trainers must develop their professional capabilities to integrate technology with their curriculum. This must be followed by the continuous transform their practice as emerging learning technologies are adopted. The software, content, and systems must be continually upgraded to deliver rapidly improved student academic performance. ADOPTION – Informal Learning and Performance Support: Easy and effective access for all citizens and work force to continuous life-span learning. A significant percentage of current informal learning and formal education will be transformed to the e-learning mode. E-performance support (e-learning in its most granular and directly applied mode) will be integrated into most aspects of work and play. ADOPTION – Infrastructure and Systems: Statewide broadband infrastructure build-out is required. There must be adequate bandwidth to the Internet and the "cloud" to every education, learning, work, and play space, including remote rural locations. Formal education classrooms must provide 4:1 student to e-learning interface ratios now and rapidly expand to 1:1. A statewide knowledge system would provide an Arizona specific information resource for all aspects of education, training and performance support. This knowledge system would be created and used by all employers, libraries, and education/training providers. ENTERPRISE – E-Learning Cluster To enhance growth and global competitive advantage an E-Learning Economic Cluster organization will be formed. The driving stakeholders would all have vested interest in the growth of the e-learning market, and their sharing in the fruits of this growth. They are entrepreneurial companies and major manufacturers with products, content and services used in an e-learning environment; e-learning research entities; leading customers of e-learning technology; providers to and supporters of e-learning companies; and developers of e-learning company workforce. The cluster will be formed around a nucleus of founding Arizona stakeholders. This nucleus will formulate a detailed cluster plan including mutually supporting linkages and locate/recruit all potential stakeholders. An Arizona e-learning industry study will be commissioned. The results will be used to promote the E-Learning Cluster, determine business support roles of the legislature, and to lay the foundations for ongoing operational plans and functions of the cluster. The E-Learning Cluster will be the private sector implementer of an Arizona E-Learning Portal for delivery of e-learning to Arizona educators and business workforce e-learning training.
CROSSCUTTING -- Arizona E-Learning Foundation Group This foundation group will be created in partnership with the E-Learning Cluster organization. It will develop the plan and resulting Arizona policy, assemble the advocates, and support the Arizona wide adoption of e-learning. The legislative plan will be used to generate the public sector adoption funding for government, schools, colleges and universities; and e-learning research funding for the universities. As an example task: E-Learning Foundation group will be responsible for developing and delivering a comprehensive e-learning curriculum for Arizona educators and trainers to the E-Learning Cluster for delivery over the Arizona E-Learning Portal.
RESEARCH -- Emerging E-Learning Technology Arizona investment and an unfair share of federal government investment in e-learning research will support the R&D of our technology companies, colleges, institutes, and military and government laboratories. Arizona’s leading technology transfer system, enhance by Proposition 301, will be used to accelerate innovation between the researcher and Arizona e-learning companies. From global resources the E-Learning Foundation group will be tasked to deliver research based best practices and technology sources to the Arizona e-learning adopters to enhance their practice. The E-Learning Cluster organization will be tasked to deliver research based e-learning product and service innovations to Arizona companies for commercialization.
SUMMARY The ALTP can expand as a foundation to address the public sector E-Learning adoption aspects. The ATIC and GITA could continue their lead to drive the adoption of infrastructure and systems. An Arizona E-Learning Technology Economic Cluster (AELTEC???) is needed to accelerate formation of enterprise and creation of research base E-Learning products and services. STAKEHOLDER RESPONSIBILITY => E-LEARNING CLUSTER AND/OR FOUNDATION Businesses - General Colleges and Universities Computer and Software Companies – Primary Business not E-Learning Concerned Citizens Dept. of Commerce (AZ and Federal) Dept. of Education and Education Board Economic Development Organizations (GPEC, GTEC, GFEC, GYEDC, GPCC, ACC, …) Emerging Technology Groups Employers-Workforce E-Learning Hosting Companies - Portals E-Learning Delivery Companies - Knowledge and Learning Management Systems E-Learning Technology Based Software-Content Companies E-Learning Technology Research Operations E-Learning Technology Directors AZTEA Foundations/Advocates/NGO’s Government – Local Government – State (in general) Governor’s Office Governor’s Strategic Partnership for Economic Development Clusters Industry & Business Associations K-12 Schools/Districts Legislature (State and Federal) Legal - Attorneys Libraries Native American Organizations Non – Public Schools/Programs -- Science Museum Parents/Students Professional Development and Training Professionals Rural Communities School Boards School-to-Work School Facilities Board State IT Policy and Technologists GITA, ATIC Teachers/Trainers Telecommunications Providers Training Providers ASSETT http://www.satirewire.com Weekly hit for New Economy types with satirical sense of humor. Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx Brevity is the soul of lingerie. -- Dorothy Parker When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. -- Albert Einstein The ALTP News/Action Agenda is produced by the Arizona Learning Technology
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