1 SM General Motors e-Learning Alliance Four-year revenue contract announced April, 2001 Mastery, Quantum, and MBA degree being offered to 88,000 global salaried workers “This strategic alliance will help us jump-start our e-learning efforts for strengthening our leadership and management development programs. We’ll do this by providing world-class content with a project-oriented learning approach that takes full advantage of technology on a global basis. It’s our vision to be able to blend these elements in a cost-effective way for the development of employees and the success of the enterprises.” Donnee Ramelli President,General Motors University
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General Motors e-Learning Alliance Four-year revenue contract announced April, 2001
Mastery, Quantum, and MBA degree being offered to 88,000 global salaried workers
“This strategic alliance will help us jump-start our e-learning efforts for strengthening our leadership and management development programs. We’ll do this by providing world-class content with a project-oriented learning approach that takes full advantage of technology on a global basis. It’s our vision to be able to blend these elements in a cost-effective way for the development of employees and the success of the enterprises.”
Donnee RamelliPresident,General Motors University
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Thomson Strategic Alliance
Strategic investment in UNext to explore a range of mutually advantageous relationships involving distribution, content and technology for online education and training courses
Will assist in the distribution of UNext courses
May provide content for online courses intended for the medical, legal, and financial communities
Expects to license UNext’s learning administration systems and technology platforms to Thomson
Will work closely with UNext (through its Learning market group) to pursue joint venture opportunities and strategic alliances
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Other Market OpportunitiesB2U
– Public and Private Universities and Colleges
B2G
– Governmental Agencies
B2C
– End Consumers
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What is our e-learning approach? Unique combination of development and learning
philosophy
Developed by– The world’s leading cognitive and learning scientists with
pedagogy and technology skills
– Leading academics and scholars with content expertise
– Industry experts
Philosophy of– Collaboration is essential
– Problem-based learning creates persistence and sets goals
– To make all of this work, UNext has created a “knowledge studio” that implements the new learning in education
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Quality of Knowledge Our courses are
developed with leading academic institutions
They provide subject matter expertise and experience
They ensure our courses meet their quality standards
They co-brand our courses
Stanford University
London School of Economics
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Quality content alone is not enough
Course design and pedagogy
Instruction and mentoring
Monitoring and tracking
Accessible technology and infrastructure
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Technology only as good as the pedagogy
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Television is not our model, as passivity leads to failure
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Basic Belief about Learning
Learning– Making sense of the world
Instruction– Aiding that sense making
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Designing a Learning Environment
Learning is a means to an end – not simply an end
– The “end” determines what is learned
Learning is active; learning is by doingLearning is collaborativeLearning is reflective
– There are opportunities to summarize what was learned and to consider other applications of the learning
– Parallel to “debrief” in business and “after action review” in the services
