About e-Learning...

One of my assignments in my IDD class this week is to read and post my thought about e-Learning and Learning 2.0. I spent last couple days reading the materials, thinking, and pondering about Learning 2.0 and e-Learning. There are couple things that interest me about this Learning 2.0.
It became clear to me, as I read the materials, that most of the company spend most of their money in educating their employees so they can use their company resources better and become more productive. However, just because they have their training with an expert instructor, it doesn't automatically make them a better employees. There is a fatal assumption among us that if we see a room full with people and an instructor being in the front, that means a productive activity called training is taking place in that room. This assumption is fatal because having an expert instructor and a group of people 'listening' to its 'training' does not guarantee the transfer of information/instruction. A new method called Learning 2.0 is being develop lately to help to straight things up. Learning 2.o is not a teacher-centric or instructor-centric methods like the one we have know. It takes cooperation from the learner and the educator. In Learning 2.o everyone can be 'teachers' or 'mini teachers' for others. In addition to that, Learning 2.o-when combine with INTERNET networking- can save lots of money, space, and time for its participants.
Other things that interest me is the implementation of ADDIE in the e-Learning and Learning 2.0. ADDIE, an abbreviation for Analyze, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation, is a method that requires its practitioners to use most of their time to do research and developing the solutions. Many of us sometimes do not realize the amount cost that is being 'waste' to fix an ineffective solutions or mistake is quite much. What important and needs to be remember from this concepts is before a solution is formulated for a certain problem, it is better to make a focus research about the problem so they, the company, can design and develop an effective training that will help increase employees' productivity and knowledge and also save the company's from a back-end griefs and extra expenses.