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e-Learning: what have we learnt so far?

John O'Connor, of O'Connor Consulting will present an appraisal of e-learning's 'highs'and 'lows' at the forthcoming Learning Technologies conference in January.

In his presentation, 'E-learning: What Have We Learnt So Far?', O'Connor will consider an uncomplicated approach to e-learning, when to avoid it and where it adds value. He aims to provide a practical approach to successful e-learning implementation, contrasting the implementation challenges between 'Greenfield' and 'Brownfield' sites, and providing experience-based counsel for training managers that want to test the e-learning waters, or for those that have and don't know why it isn't working.

O'Connor said: "e-Learning is different to a 'nine-to-five' course in the classroom. E-learners don't particularly recognise that they're taking courses. E-learners think that they're browsing around a subject to enrich their knowledge or drilling in, quickly, to find out how to do a task. E-learners are information snacking.

"The transformation from providing courses to providing information changes how training managers must view managing learning: from designing a learning infrastructure, through to how we measure what's happening. For example, training managers have shown concern with e-learning's completion rates. Because tomorrow's training managers will find out that they're in the business of providing value, completion rates may seem irrelevant and if we continue to make e-learning fit the course format with a start, a middle and an end, we won't make the change that e-learning needs to deliver business results."

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