Every successful learning enterprise is an intricate ecosystem. In transiting to a more collaborative new media learning environment, organizations need to consider the impact of transformation on all the key aspects of learning. Raison offers insight and access to the means of shaping the crucial elements of a new media learning environment.

At the organizational level, change is best managed by setting well-informed policy directions and addressing the professional development needs of staff to handle new processes. By complementing strategic advice with executive training support, Raison enables organizations to keep current with a rapidly evolving new media education frontier.

Web2Class Series
In educational institutions around the world, the tradition of teaching practice centered on content-driven learning constrains much of the benefit afforded by digital media technology. New media opens significant pedagogical possibilities for experiential and goal-based curricula that can generate huge momentum for self-directed, independent learning. With online and personal media becoming commonplace, the future of learning is also no longer restricted by space, time, resource or even interest. However, much of this relies on the capacity and confidence of educators to adapt to new operating paradigms.

The Web2Class Series are three tiers of modular courses designed to build familiarity with broad directions in media technology and train bridging strategies for new media education. Focused on 'Nurturing Learning Capacities through the Collaborative Web', each module in the series explores the learning principles and dynamics of a Web 2.0 classroom to harness the collaborative web of social networks, blogs, wikis, podcasts and an emergent constellation of webtop applications.

'Learning on Demand'
At Raison we believe new media adoption is best supported through customized programs that take into account specific contexts of implementation, local needs and sensitivities, and an organization’s big picture goals. Raison’s in-house 'Learning on Demand' framework supports the following types of modular training/coaching:

• Basic introductory workshops covering an orientation to new media, trends, tools and techniques, including online safety, ecommerce and games
• Intermediate and advanced workshops focusing on a particular technology or new media class
• Intermediate and advanced workshops focusing on pedagogical application and instructional skills for new media education
• Specific and context sensitive training developed for a particular program, event, or invitation
• Long term, scalable projects or professional development packages involving a mix of training/coaching sessions and quarterly updates