Some think eLearning is Powerpoint slides with voice over. Others favor podcasts. And still others program scenarios or blends. What is the current state of practice? Where do professionals aspire to take their efforts? There are some surprises in the results of this study, as stated in the title.

1. Training Magazine Network presents Guest Speaker: Allison Rossett, Ph.D. Author Professor of Educational Technology San Diego State University eLearning is Not What You Think It Is

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4. About Allison Rossett Dr. Allison Rossett, long time Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University, is in the Training magazine HRD Hall of Fame, was recently a member of the ASTD International Board of Directors, and was honored by selection as an ISPI Member-for-Life. Allison recently co-authored Job Aids and Performance Support: Moving from Knowledge in the Classroom to Knowledge Everywhere and a brand new edition of her classic, First Things Fast: A Handbook for Performance Analysis this year. She was featured in eLearn magazine in December, 2008. She is the author of four award-winning books, including Beyond the Podium: Delivering Training and Performance to a Digital World and the first edition of First Things Fast: A Handbook for Performance Analysis. Some of Allison articles and white papers are "Performance Support Tools: Delivering Value When and Where Needed," "Moving Your Class Online, " "Confessions of a Web Dropout," and "Training and Organizational Development, Siblings Separated at Birth." She has conducted research and published articles on needs analysis, learner engagement, and persistence in online learning. Her client list includes IBM, HP, the Getty Conservation Institute, Fidelity Investments, Deloitte Consulting, BP, the IRS, Amgen, National Security Agency, Transportation Security Administration, and several e-learning start-ups.

5. Allison Rossett Department of Educational Technology San Diego State University [email_address] ©2010 Allison Rossett E-Learning is what?

6. E-learning now accounts for nearly one-third of learning content. [ 2008 ASTD State of the Industry Report]

9. In 2004, Michael Allen, CEO of Allen Interactions, acknowledged surprise at the confusion, “I didn’t really think this would be much of a challenge—doesn’t everybody pretty much know what e-learning is? First up, then, is to define e-learning

10. They talk about and do e-learning Marc Rosenberg “ Web 2.0 is changing everything we do.” Stephen Downes “ The model of e-learning as being a type of content, produced by publishers, organized and structured into courses, and consumed by students, is turned on its head.”

11. When you say you are doing e-learning, what are you doing? Jim Marshall and I decided to try to find out ©2010 Allison Rossett

15. Step 3: We piloted and we edited ©2010 Allison Rossett  Sample Snapshots  Our programs are delivered on mobile devices.  Our programs include efforts to collect, distribute and update best practices and great ideas.  Our programs use visuals with an audio track. Employees access them at a time and place of their choosing.  Our programs include employee generated content, with employees asked to contribute their thoughts and opinions so that others, no matter their location, can benefit and respond.

16. Step 4: We reached out to solicit participation from 5 sources  ©2010 Allison Rossett

17. Step 4: We reached out to solicit participation  NB. Limitations of this study: non random sample, atypical sample ©2010 Allison Rossett

19. Top 5 Practices Rarely/Never Sometimes Most of the time ©2010 Allison Rossett

20. Bottom 5 Practices Rarely/Never Sometimes Most of the time ©2010 Allison Rossett

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24. Aspirations for the future These reflect the 26 snapshots. Let’s see what respondents selected.

25. Top 10 Aspirations Do you resemble our sample?

26. Top 5 Barriers Not a constraint Minor Constraint Significant Constraint ©2010 Allison Rossett

28. More additive than supplantive Are we over-cautious? Should we do more? Clayton Christenson “ We are spending the vast majority of our time incrementally improving what we are doing today in learning (courses/courseware) instead of taking advantage of learning disruption that is happening all around us.”

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32. Resource URL Allison Rossett & Rebecca Frazee’s white paper about blended learning http://www.amanet.org/blended/pdf/WhitePaper_BlendLearn.pdf SDSU EDTEC graduate programs, on campus and online http://edweb.sdsu.edu/ http://edweb.sdsu.edu/Edtec/distance/ Allison Rossett & Lisa Schafer’s 2007 book about job aids and performance support http://www.colletandschafer.com/perfsupp/index.html Allison Rossett’s books: Beyond the Podium; First Things Fast, 2 nd edition (2009) http://www.pfeiffer.com/go/BTP; http://www.jbp.com/rossett.html and http;//www.pfeiffer.com