learning futures: introducing elearning into your company

Learning Futures:Introducing eLearning into your

Company

Steve Wheeler@timbuckteeth

Plymouth University, UK

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Why?

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Introducing eLearning into your company?

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BYOD

CYOD

LMS

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Image source: http://journey-coach.com/2011/08/what-does-your-word-mean/

Migrating content to online learning spaces

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“If you think of the Web mainly as a place to ‘look up things’, you are

missing the point”. – Alec Couros (2012)

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Sentiment tracking

VLE or PLE

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Personalised learning means ensuring that individual differences are

acknowledged

We are familyhttp://pro.corbis.com

Wii are family!

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Personal Learning Environment

Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html

Steve Wheeler & Manish Malik (2010)

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Personal Learning NetworksPhoto by Steve Wheeler

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“ ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ …is an axiom for collecting knowledge… through collecting people”.

- Karen Stephenson

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Distributed LearningParagogy

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Learning

User generated

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Learning by making

Learning 2.0

ToolsCollaborating

Sharing

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

Architecture of participation

Tagging

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Blogging and Tweeting

Modes of learningInformalFormal

Collaborative

ReflectiveE-portfolios

Essay writing

Group workCo-operative learning Social networking

BloggingMicroblogging

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Space integration

Community spacePersonal space

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Wiki blog integration

Reflective spaceCollaborative space

Blog Wiki


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Reflective spaceCollaborative space

Blog Wiki

Negotiation of meaningCo-construction of knowledge


Proximal Development Professional ID

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Who I am What I know

Blog Wiki

ReflectionSelf expression

(Brescia & Miller, 2006)

Creative writingCritical thinking

Meta cognitive processesSocio cognitive processes

(Gleaves et al, 2007)

Sharing/exchangingEditing/modifying

(Tu et al, 2008)

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Blended Learning?

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Community as curriculum

MOOCPhoto: Steve Wheeler

Twitter as a libraryTwitter as a street corner

Twitter as a broadcast channel Twitter as amplification

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Source: Jane Hart http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/

Some recent research findings…

• just converting face-to-face courses into page-turning online formats (e-learning) isn’t enough

• trying to make online courses “engaging” and “fun” isn’t the answer either – since most find interactivities “trivial” at best and “insulting their intelligence” at worst, and

• adding in (or blending) informal, social or mobile into current training practicies, just because it is the current fashion to do so – also won’t make a lot of difference.


In workplace L & D departments it means that for Knowledge Workers …

• supporting the continuous development and performance improvement of their people through both team collaboration and independent professional learning and…

• helping to address specific performance problems in the most appropriate way. This means first undertaking a performance analysis to ensure that a training solution is not automatically assumed to be the solution to a problem (so is not the same thing as a TNA). But, where some form of training is identified as the best solution, then, for Knowledge Workers, ensuring that the solution incorporates as many of the 5 characteristics as (relevantly) possible.

Rather, it means working in closer partnership with people managers and …


What kind of learners?

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Learners taking notesPhoto: Lori Cullen

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Digital Natives?

The Net

Generation?

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Homo

Zappiens?

Millennials?

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Power users 14%

Ordinary users 27%

Irregular users 14%

Basic users 45%

Source: Kennedy et al (2010) Beyond Digital Natives and Immigrants: Exploring types of net generation students, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 26 (5).

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The research shows something else…

http://truedantalion.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/silver-surfers.html

Digital Residents or Visitors? White and Le Cornu, 2012

‘New’ learners are...• more self-directed• better equipped to capture information• more reliant on feedback from peers• more inclined to collaborate• more oriented toward being their own “nodes of production”.

Education Trends | Featured NewsJohn K. Waters—13 December 2011

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But they need

much more...

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“60% of all Internet pages contain

misleading information.”

- Thomas Edison

Learners need ‘digital literacies’

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“Lee Harvey and the Wailers”(Lee Harvey did not jam alone)

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language

Managing online identity

nameimages

netiquettereputation

avatar interaction

privacy

personal data

identity

legacy

reputationname

privacy

images

interaction

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Learners need ‘digital wisdom’

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Not only skills... ...Literacies

Learners will need new ‘literacies’• Social networking• Transliteracies• Privacy maintenance• Identity management• Creating content• Organising content• Reusing and repurposing• Filtering and selecting• Self presenting

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“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

- SocratesPlato

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“Blogging ... Is the most important form of unchoreographed public discourse that

we have.”

- Lawrence Lessig

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“Never have so many people written so much to be read by so few...”

- Katie Hafner

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Flip the roles, not the classroom

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PassiveObserver

TransactionalParticipant

PeripheralParticipant

Core Group

Full Member

Adapted from: Karalis, T. (2010) Situated and transformative learning: exploring the potential of critical reflection to enhance organizational knowledge, Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 24 (1), 17 - 20

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We learn by teaching

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