SM 1 General Motors e-Learning Alliance  Four-year revenue contract announced April, 2001  Mastery, Quantum, and MBA degree being offered to 88,000 global salaried workers  “This strategic alliance will help us jump-start our e-learning efforts for strengthening our leadership and management development programs. We’ll do this by providing world- class content with a project-oriented learning approach that takes full advantage of technology on a global basis. It’s our vision to be able to blend these elements in a cost-effective way for the development of employees and the success of the enterprises.” Donnee Ramelli President,General Motors University

SM 2 Thomson Strategic Alliance  Strategic investment in UNext to explore a range of mutually advantageous relationships involving distribution, content and technology for online education and training courses  Will assist in the distribution of UNext courses  May provide content for online courses intended for the medical, legal, and financial communities  Expects to license UNext’s learning administration systems and technology platforms to Thomson  Will work closely with UNext (through its Learning market group) to pursue joint venture opportunities and strategic alliances

SM 3 Other Market Opportunities  B2U –Public and Private Universities and Colleges  B2G –Governmental Agencies  B2C –End Consumers

SM 4 What is our e-learning approach?  Unique combination of development and learning philosophy  Developed by –The world’s leading cognitive and learning scientists with pedagogy and technology skills –Leading academics and scholars with content expertise –Industry experts  Philosophy of –Collaboration is essential –Problem-based learning creates persistence and sets goals –To make all of this work, UNext has created a “knowledge studio” that implements the new learning in education

SM 5 Quality of Knowledge  Our courses are developed with leading academic institutions  They provide subject matter expertise and experience  They ensure our courses meet their quality standards  They co-brand our courses Stanford University London School of Economics

SM 6 Quality content alone is not enough  Course design and pedagogy  Instruction and mentoring  Monitoring and tracking  Accessible technology and infrastructure

SM 7 Technology only as good as the pedagogy

SM 8 Television is not our model, as passivity leads to failure

SM 9 Basic Belief about Learning  Learning –Making sense of the world  Instruction –Aiding that sense making

SM 10 Designing a Learning Environment  Learning is a means to an end – not simply an end –The “end” determines what is learned  Learning is active; learning is by doing  Learning is collaborative  Learning is reflective –There are opportunities to summarize what was learned and to consider other applications of the learning –Parallel to “debrief” in business and “after action review” in the services