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e-Learning : The Time is Now

e-Learning : The Time is Now. Samuel Lo Academic & Research Industry Sun Microsystems Greater China. What will I cover. Trends In e-Learning What is Driving eLearning Trend? Technology Advances Enabling New Ways of Delivering Education Distance Learning Challenges Facing the Challenges

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e-Learning : The Time is Now

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  1. e-Learning : The Time is Now Samuel Lo Academic & Research Industry Sun Microsystems Greater China

  2. What will I cover • Trends In e-Learning • What is Driving eLearning Trend? • Technology Advances Enabling New Ways of Delivering Education • Distance Learning Challenges • Facing the Challenges • e-Learning : Powered by Sun • Scott McNealy’s vision for Education

  3. The Internet is Expanding Rapidly Global Nature of the Internet Worldwide Web Growth (Millions of Unique Sites) 3.65M 2.04M 1.23M 1997 1998 1999

  4. Consider this ….. • 67,000 new Internet users per day • 350 Million Internet users by 2002 • Half Billion mobile phone users by 2002 • 35% of workers will be mobile by 2002 • 10,000 Web sites per week • 3.5 Billion emails in 1998 • 1 Trillion plus emails by 2003 • Worldwide mobile revenues exceed land line by 2004 Webtone > Dialtone

  5. WW Distance Learning Trend “By 2002, over 80 percent of colleges will be offering distance learning courses, up from 58 percent in 1998” “Online Distance Learning in Higher Education 1998-2002” Gartner Group

  6. What is Driving Distance Learning Trend ? • Increasing Competition • Demand for Lifelong Learning • Decreasing Funds for “Brick and Mortar” • Demand to be More Learner-Centered • Globalization

  7. Technology Advances Enabling New Ways of Delivering Education Audio Conferencing Video Conferencing Satellite Chat Rooms Web-based Training Video Tape/Audio Tape CD-ROM Internet/Intranet VOD Email Different Place Classroom Kiosk Learning Center Library Lab Same Place Same Time Different Time

  8. Universal Access & Communication DL Portal webtop.com Services datacenter.com

  9. Distance Learning Challenges • Reducing per-student costs • Making educational opportunities more affordable for students • Increasing institution enrollments • Increasing student access by reducing time constraints for course taking • Increasing student access by making courses available at convenient locations • Increasing institution's access to new audiences • Improving the quality of course offerings • Meeting the needs of local employers

  10. Facing the Challenges

  11. Facing the Challenges – cont.

  12. e-Learning : Powered By Sun A Virtual Visit from IT Support • DesktopStreaming (DTS), a distance learning tool introduced recently by Expercity, allows a support representative, IT guru, or computer science professor to see and control a customer, employee, field agent, or student’s desktop remotely, over the Internet Visit http://www.expertcity.com

  13. e-Learning : Powered By Sun – cont. Attending Class at the Student’s Convenience “Classroom Instruction on Demand” (CIoD) Program, from the University of the America (UDLA), Puebla – To provide students with a user-friendly environment while avoiding the costs and troubles of traditional PCs (e.g. viruses, loss of local data, costly software upgrades and support) Visit http://www.callisto.ca

  14. e-Learning : Powered By Sun – cont. Attending Class at the Student’s Convenience The Columbia Business School in New York City is one of several institutions using Prometheus, an Internet-based online course software product, to deliver online course management and related functions for its students, faculty and staff Visit http://www.gsb.columbia.edu and http://www.prometheus.com

  15. e-Learning : Powered By Sun – cont. Broadband learning, simplified The award-winning Kasenna MediaBase allows users to consolidate the various streaming filetypes (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, QuickTime 4, MP3, and Real) under one web-based interface and one server, to schedule webcasts and live multicasts and to request video-on-demand, all at bit rates from 8 kbps to over 8Mbps. Visit http://kasenna.com

  16. For More Information • Sun: http:// www.sun.com/edu • IMS: http://www.imsproject.org • JLEARN: http://jlearn.mit.edu • JMF: http://java.sun.com/jdc • KMI: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/stadium

  17. Scott McNealy’s vision for Education • Put everything on the Net • Invest in Bandwidth. • Invest in digital curriculum. • Build everything to open standards. • Outsource anything that isn’t core to what you do. • Take advantage of free software. • Create portals for your communities • Teach Java. • Move to a utility model of computing • We’re in the post-PC era – Deal with it

  18. Samuel Lo Samuel.lo@asia.sun.com

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