Is this IT eLearning in PostSecondary Education

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Is this IT?e-Learning in Post-Secondary
Education

• Gary Stairs
• CEO

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Learning and Education are Changing
Once upon a time, not too long ago
A sign of the times
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Are you planning to keep pace?
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Innovation/Education
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Educational Technologies
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• This
• was
• IT

Our technology forces us to live mythically, but
we continue to think fragmentarily, and on
single, separate planes. - Marshall McLuhan
(19111980)
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In the beginning
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CD-ROMs Early and Wide Sweeping
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How to do it learning

• Benefits
• Cheaper than live instructors
• Consistent content
• Convenient access
• Self paced
• Reuse does not require trainer/teacher
  participation
• Less interruption

. . . magic bullet?
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From CDs to WWW
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e-Learning Media CD and the WWW Meeting
Learners Needs

• Convenient
• Self-paced
• Accurate, Consistent, and Complete
• Interactive
• Real-Life
• Engaging
• Dynamic

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Maturing of the Industry
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The Rise of Distance Education
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Developments
Podcasts
Online message boards
Student-focused blogs
Chat
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• Will this be IT?

The future is already here its just not
evenly distributed. -William Gibson
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Generation E
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Generation E Consumes more information than any
ever before
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Getting their attention

• Without motivation there is no learning
• James Paul Gee

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• Anyone who makes a distinction between education
  and entertainment doesnt know the first thing
  about either one
• Attributed to Marshall
  McLuhan

Games and Education
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Web 2. What?

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Ascension of the Affordable Web
http//www.yourdonreport.com/
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Virtual Worlds and Virtual Classrooms

• Second Life is a 3D online digital world imagined
  and created by its residents

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Second Life
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Mobile Learning Passing fad
or next big wave?
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Mobile Learning A Teaching Perspective?

• Cell phones are a distraction
• Cell phones present a potential liability in
  terms of cheating on tests
• Cell phones are a distraction

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Mobile Learning
Meeting the needs of today's flexible learner
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Rapid Adoption in Emerging Economies
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• Or is this IT?

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be
those who cannot read and write, but those who
cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.  Alvin
Toffler
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Dare to be
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Case Studies in Mobile Learning
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Post Secondary Education and Texting

• Benefits of text messaging for university
  administration
• Up-to-date data
• Training
• Student support and buy-in
• Research
• Can integrate with library databases

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Mobile Learning for Students

• Provides context
• aware content
• delivery methods

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Mobile Learning
Creating Communities
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Semacode
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Business Trends that Impact Education
Business Trends that Impact Education
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Rapidly Changing Requirements
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Need for Advanced Training
Serious Games
Immersive Environments Related terms games,
multi-player gaming environments, simulations,
virtual reality
Simulations Related terms experiential
learning, games, microworlds, role-playing,
scenarios
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Corporate Social Responsibility
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Technology and Development
Rethinking is necessary

• Move away from online all the time
• To a model of DTN
• (delay tolerant networking)
• Data mules

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New Paths? New Directions?
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Collaborate
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What is Learning?
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Questions? Comments?
Gary Stairs CEO, Red Hot Learning
Inc. Fredericton, New Brunswick gstairs_at_redhotlear
ning.com