eLearning Productivity

01/03/07

Student Academic Productivity

Driven by technological advances, productivity of U.S. business workers has grown about 3% a year. The current process has been driving by information, not automation. U.S. K-12 education has about 60 million student workers and only 10 million effective instructional computers. Our industry-business system has about 5 computers per worker, integrated through out their global working environment. Our students may have a few in the back of the room, or worse 50 minutes every 7 school days in a computer lab.

Schools are striving to use eLearning. They rotate/share, consider $100 palm pilots, and apply what little eLearning they have to one discipline. After 15 years of experience schools know they must focus on digital curriculum and not technology. They know they need highly interactive computing in their education system. They can almost taste the 3% increase a year in academic performance.

Did I say compounded 3% a year for ten years? Why that would sail Arizona right past Massachusetts into the lead position. Goodbye being 49^th, 43^rd, 45^th, whatever and hello number one. Hey! If Boise State can do it by force of will and some trick plays, why not Arizona?

HI-CE

http://hi-ce.org/ (Highly-Interactive Classrooms – Curricula – Computing in Education; School of Education/College of Engineering; University of Michigan) Check out for palm-sized computers for K-12 and many other nifty research papers. Ron Marx was part of the research team, before he became the Chair of the UofA College of Education.

Advanced Distributive Learning System – Wisconsin

The Academic ADL co-lab at the University of Wisconsin is hiring an executive director. State of Wisconsin, not a federal job. Contact Holly Wells 608-263-8603 hwells@uwsa.edu.