Interestingy, as I read the early few 50 pages of Clark Aldrich's Simulations and the Future of Learning on my way back home from office, on his concern about lack of quality in e-learning content, I tend to agree with him. He mentioned that the market is moving towards blended learning simply because e-learning content is lacking that he later challenged anyone to come out with good quality content. And talk about quantity, "Tina Sung, the CEO of ASTD was quoted in her TechKnowledge 2003 keynote address that there were 650,000 e-learning courses available out there"
Aldrich went on and on, presenting the problems underlying the issue and wrote in great length about the myths on subject matter expert before he started discussing his project on leadership using simulations.
And in a meeting I had earlier this morning, I was getting all excited at the preservation of local indigenous knowledge that is critical towards sustaining interests and knowledge dissemination of our unrecorded knowledge to the younger generations. And it all boiled down to the numbers of learning objects we will be working on and the amount of funding we require for content development. And I could already the excitement working with our Subject Matter Expert as she has always recognize that what lacks out of her way of grass root education initiatives was the skill sets of Instructional Designer but finally I talked to her about the importance of working with IDs to make it all possible.
My concern now remains, at the end of the day, can all of us deliver quality learning objects? Can all of us agree to standard measurement of quality LOs? Can everyone in the development team carry out the vision throughout the entire development cycle? Is it necessary to have rating systems for content? Are we game enough to innovate new learning model? Are we good enough to engage every learner, to stimulate them, to sustain them, and cultivate them into the culture of lifelong learning? Or perhaps, an interesting question remains, can our local e-learning industry finally see a butterfly so beautiful borne out of quality solutions they learn, produce, and grow in their metamorphosis stage?
Just a trip down the memory lane, are you Haza who used to be studying in Vandy?
Posted by: ngising | Saturday, July 03, 2004 at 11:53 PM