E-Lerning Initiatives

Planning, Implementing and Evaluating E-learning Initiatives
American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC), Dec 2002, Pages: 132

In schools today, experiential learning, or learning by doing, is hard to find because it is so hard to implement. The paradigm of a classroom of 30 students and one teacher does not lend itself to much interaction. No educator really believes that lecturing is the best means of education, but it is simply what is available in the classroom model. Attempts to simulate the classroom on a computer, therefore, are misguided. E-learning can change the paradigm of learning and transform the lecture model to an interactive model. Benjamin Franklin called for this in 1770 but he couldn’t find a way. John Dewey called for this in 1916 but he didn’t know how to do it. Now we have a way. The computer can supplement the classroom with simulated experiences that allow the student to learn by doing. This is why e-learning matters and other learning approaches will struggle in the future. The new medium allows for the delivery of a powerful new message.
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When planning an e-learning initiative, one should focus on content rather than
delivery to maximize the educational advantages of eliminating classrooms. E-learning will dominate the learning arena when the virtual courses are interactive, engaging, authoritative, and relevant. A good course must motivate, enable inquiry, encourage reasoning, cause emotional impact, and most importantly, provide opportunities to practice. All of this is possible in e-learning.

E-learning initiatives that did not reach targeted goals
Desmond Keegan, Jüri Lõssenko,
Ildikó Mázár, Pedro Fernández Michels,
Morten Flate Paulsen, Torstein Rekkedal,
Jan Atle Toska, Dénes Zarka

MegaTrends in E-learning Provision
"e-learning initiatives" organization レベルでの活動に使うのか。

A Proposed e-Learning Policy Field for the Academy (Gale Parchoma, 2005) (PDF)
International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2006, Volume 18, Number 3, 230-240
http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/
ISSN 1812-9129

Definition of e-Learning

For the purposes of this article, e-learning is defined as electronically-mediated learning. e-Learning initiatives include the provision of online resources to support classroom-based learning, distance learning, and distributed learning models. Distance learning is defined as the provision of learning opportunities to learners situated away from a university campus. Distributed learning refers to the provision of learning opportunities in a combination of on and off campus settings.
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Criteria for Evaluating the Feasibility of　e-Learning Initiatives
This examination of the ecological setting of the academy focuses on e-learning initiatives for alignmentand attunement with larger social and economic forces,
as well as the existing institutional, organizational, cultural, economic, and pedagogical contexts. As in broader change initiatives, if the planning, design, and
implementation of a strategic e-learning initiative is to be deemed worthwhile, it must have sufficient utility; it must “meet some need” and it must be operationally, fiscally, and politically viable (Guba & Lincoln, 1985, p. 227). Further as with other transitions, the broadscale adoption of e-learning must be, and must be seen to be, as an efficacious adjustment to emergent circumstances, for which alternative responses would be insufficient (Ruttenbar, Spickler, & Lurie, 2000). Determining whether a broad-scale e-learning strategy is feasible within a particular academic setting, depends in part upon, gaining an understanding of the driving
and restraining forces that influence leadership within the academy as a whole, as well as variant levels of support for adoption from within individual academic
contexts.

A factor that may make broad-scale adoption of e-learning an efficacious adjustment to emergent circumstances, for which alternative responses would be insufficient, is significantly increased demand for the provision of online resources to support classroom-based learning, distance learning, and distributed learning models. The emergence of a global learning society is increasing these demands.　(p.232)　

organization レベルでなくても含められそう。

*an initiative = an act or strategy intended to resolve a difficulty or improve a situation; a fresh approach to something; an important acts/statements that is intended to solve a problem; plan, scheme, strategy, stratagem, measure, technique, proposal, step, action, act, manoeuvre, gambit; approach, tack, tactic