Current History

In 2003, Ted Kraver interviewed most of the GAZeL CEO’s and found that they wanted their cluster organization to address two issues. One was eLearningi researchi sources to develop their emerging products to make them more effective. The other was to offer their support, talent, and knowledge to transform Arizona K-12 education and help them achieve the highest possible benefits from eLearning.

To respond to the research request, GAZeL developed a Research Committee with a solid membership and many activitiesi under the leadership of Dr. Magaret Martinez, (www.trainingplace.com) http://www.gazel.org/static/index.cfm?action=group&contentID=753)

Another team was contracted by the Institute of Defense Analysis and Department of Defense. Their task was to designed an eLearning research communities of practice portal that would facilitate the global growth and diffusion of research based eLearning technology and methods. The study/design .pdf report can be download “E-Learning Research Portal Study, 2005”

To address Arizona K-12 elearning eSATSi was spun out as an independent design team to develop the Arizona wide initiative. The team quickly decided that there adequate imperitives had been pronouced and enough strategic plans were on the shelf. The missing tool was an Arizona systems design that focused on the learning nexus: the teacher and student. Taking only three months in 2003 the eSATS design team researched and created a systems design for transforming Arizona K-12 education. This design working document was revised in 2005 “Statewide Design for eLearning System for Arizona Teachers and Students” (En50919eSATSDesignRev4.pdf) available for download.

In 2006 it was obvious we needed an eight page roadmap to communicate the 130 page design. The Arizona biotech ini tiaive had spent $300,000 on developing a splendid roadmap, so the eSATS team spent and afternoon dropping our infromation into their format. "B60625RoadMap" (B60625RoadMap.pdf.pdf) available for download.