Having been around in the e-learning or computer based learning business for nearly a quarter of a century, I've seen lots of private and public sector initiatives. There's been good and bad from both sides.In the public sector I make a distinction between 'Turtle' and 'Fruit fly' initaitives. Turtles, although sometimes a little dull, mature steadily and have longevity. Fruit flies, however, breed like crazy but die soon after they're born.
Turtles
Public sector turtles would include:
Ubiquity of secondary school education
Open University
Abolition of the 11+
1992 expansion of Universities
Janet and Superjanet
Learndirect
Classroom assistants
Fruit flies
Public sector fruit flies:
Whole language literacy
BBC Doomesday project
Individual Learning Acccounts
NHSU
UKeU
Local LSCs
BBC Jam
Give me turtles anytime. By the way, Blair is a fruit fly sort of guy - Brown I'd call a Turtle!
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One of the most famous pieces of research in informal learning was produced by the Education Development Center (EDC) in 1997. This was a comprehensive 2-year study funded by the US Department of Labor and the Pew Charitable Trusts. It included companies such as Boeing, Siemens, Data Instruments, Ford and Motorola.
This showed a 4:1 ratio.
For further discussion see Jay Cross's book Informal Learning - Appedix B has a full list of this and other sources.
Conner 2005, Infromal learning: Ageless learner 1997-2005
Raybould 2000, Performance Improvement Quarterly, 8(1), 7-22.
Dobbs 2000 pp52 (above report)
Lloyd 2000, Knowledge Management
Vade 1998
wwwwelearningguild.com also did a survey of its members confriming the figure.
Hope this helps.
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