The role of live elearning in education and training systems

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The role of live elearning in education and
training systems

• Desmond Keegan and Paul Landers
• Ericsson Education Dublin

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Ericsson Education

• Ericsson Education Dublin as part of Ericsson
  Global Services is one of the leading providers
  of training solutions to the telecoms industry
• Portfolio of Training Programs and Learning
  Solutions
• 25 specially-equipped classrooms with access to
  in-house labs (2G, 2.5G, 3G)
• Auditorium seating 80 with full multimedia
  facilities

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Distance Education and Open Universities

• European Systems American Systems
• Individual-based Group-based and
  Individual-based

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e-learning

• European Systems American Systems
• Individual-based Group-based and
  Individual-based

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Pedagogical advantages of live elearning

• Teacher and student are separated in space but
  not in time
• The pedagogical structure of the class assembled
  at a fixed time and for a fixed period is
  restored
• A WWW browser is used as an important delivery
  medium
• Voice contact between the teacher and the
  students and, at times, between student and
  teacher is restored
• Student study is paced by the virtual classroom
  sessions

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Pedagogical advantages of live elearning

• Breakout rooms for small group discussions and
  web safaris for use of the WWW are available
• Communication is managed electronically
• Pedagogical features of elearning like video
  broadcasts, text chat, whiteboards, Power Point
  type presentations and application sharing are
  available
• Students have the advantages of the flexibility
  of studying on their own and the social
  advantages of belonging to a learning group

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Implementation of live elearning (VCT)
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Return on Investment Assumptions

• Assume 4 regions, 125 students to be trained
• For ILT (Instructor-led training) 80 (100) of
  students must travel. For VCT 0 must travel.
• Lost time (opportunity time) per student 5
  hours
• Hourly cost 80

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Return on Investment
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Deployment issues

• Instructor Competence
• Centra Champions
• Administration Issues (booking, course material,
  tracking etc)
• Customer awareness and acceptance
• IS/IT requirements

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Virtual Classrooms in Educational Provision

• The purpose of the project is to analyse,
  evaluate and document the use synchronous
  elearning systems (virtual classroom systems) in
  academic and corporate institutions in Europe.
• Other key outputs from the project will include a
  suite of reusable Virtual Classroom courseware as
  well as a comprehensive manual of good practice
  for all target groups embarking on the use of
  virtual training scenarios
• http//learning.ericsson.net/virtual/

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http//www.centra.com/demovideo/index.asp
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