Moving Beyond the Classroom With Executive Education
Quote: "In today's fast-moving business environment, companies lose competitiveness if their executives and employees can't keep pace with advancing knowledge in their disciplines. The good news: Great strides have been taken on research and technology to deliver new levels of adult learning. The less-than-good news: There is still much debate on what works, what doesn't, and little research into how face-to-face and distance learning can be combined into an effective hybrid program."
Comment: An excellent resource that applies to fields well beyond executive education. Several articles and video clips are available (as much as I like video...I still find that its lack of "surveyability" is frustrating for online content consumption).
See: Marrying Distance and Classroom Education and Designing Hybrid Online/In-Class Learning (.pdf)
Quotes from videos:
John Seely Brown: "We spend too much time bringing the classroom out, rather than bringing reality in"
Lynda Applegate: "One of the biggest challenges is to design a learning environment that allows learners to engage at different levels and in different ways."
Chris Dede: "One of the biggest challenges...is moving beyond automating conventional instruction, to reinventing teaching and learning.