Keep Learning - How Can We Enable & Facilitate This

1. How can we enable & facilitate this? Alan Samuel @alan2907

2. 165+ Established in 2004 clients in 13 countries UK US India Middle East Venezuela Australia Nigeria Kenya Singapore S.Africa New Zealand

3. Innovative learning solutions for enhanced performance Custom/ Bespoke eLearning Custom/Bespoke mLearning

4. 30+ Awards & recognitions Winner of 11 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards (‘12, '11, '10 & '09) Winner of 7 Apex Awards of Excellence ('11, '09, '08 & '07) Winner of a Silver award in CLO magazine's 'Learning In Practice Awards 2011' for UpsideLMS UpsideLMS featured in the '2010 Top 20 Learning Portal Companies List' and '2011 & 2012 Watch List‘ by TrainingIndustry.com UpsideLMS listed as one of the 'Five Emerging LMSs to Watch' in CLO Magazine ('10) Winner in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2008 & 2009 program, and Fast 50 India 2008 program Winner of Red Herring 100 Asia Award in 2008 & finalist in Red Herring Global 100 ('09)

5. Few of Our Prestigious Clients

6. Presenters Alan Samuel Director Client Solutions (Europe) Amit Garg Founder & Director – Custom Learning Solutions

7. “Learning is a • collaborative, • continuous,connected and community-based’ growth mindset.”* Why? The “speed of need” has accelerated Technology has / hasn’t helped – its made more (learning) available *Dan Pontefract – Flat Army: Creating a connected and engaged organisation It’s unavoidable

8. Sayswho?

9. He did.... Or did the spider?

10. She did....

11. He did.... “ I am still learning” - Michelangelo, aged 87

12. They do...

13. And He did....

14. Where? When? What did YOU learn Why? today? HOW did you learn today?

15. Poll What did • How to do something? A skill? • Where to find something? A restaurant? A website? A shop? • Why something happens? Natural phenomena? Bank rates? YOU learn today? Did you use technology to learn? A phone? A tablet? I saw someone do something? I watched a video? Saw it on TV? Someone told you about something new? You heard someone? HOW did you learn Today?

16. Welcome to Pervasive learning

18. What is it? It’s not in • a box • (or the LMS) Pervasive • technology Myriad • forms Pervasive • learning Omnipresent.. Continuous! How does it happen? Where does it happen?

19. “learning at the • speed of need • Through formal, • informal and • social learning • modalities” Dan Pontefract, defines pervasive learning as: and illustrates this as … He advocates the 3:33 model

20. The 3:33 model is equal parts of formal, informal & social learning Informal learning = 66% or 90% Conducive environment = learning opportunities = pervasive learning

21. Pervasive Learning – the challenges

22. Managing • a dynamic • environment • Capture of • informal • knowledge • exchanges • Individually • sourced • materials • State of • individual • and • organisational • learning • Informal • sharing & • collaboration • networks • Speed of • change • Volume of • information; • Sources of • information; • Authority of • information

23. Today’s learning Environment

24. The ‘real’ learning environment(s)!

27. Tomorrow’s learning environment

28. Poll • Linked In • Twitter • Facebook • Any other • None What • Social media • do you • use? • Linked In • Twitter • Facebook • Any other • None What • Social media • do you find • The most • useful?

29. Enabling • Pervasive learning

30. The components

31. Technology aware Point of need driven Expectations of technology People Uses multiple devices Low tolerance of ‘clunky’ tech Personal & professional networks Control Collaborates & shares freely Independent networker Customisable

32. Easily accessed and searchable Concise, contextually relevant, useful Aligned to point of need Content • “The greater value of education for every student is not in learning the information but in learning the skills they need to successfully find, consume, think about and apply it in their lives.” Designed to be applied and used Contributory content Engaging! • *  Statement by British Columbia’s Ministry of Education

33. Platforms that • allow peer-to-peer • interaction, groups • and communities, • user generated • content • Access, • sharing and • collaboration • are the • key drivers Technology • Discussion • boards, • external feeds, • real time • ‘chat’ • Extend access • and delivery via • new technologies – • tablets & smartphones • today.. glasses • tomorrow?

34. A pervasive learning culture

35. “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious” Albert Einstein

36. The building blocks

37. Key drivers and influencers • The culture and • behaviour of • the organisation, • departments and • groups can be varied • e.g. Finance v/s Sales • Collaboration and sharing • allow an instant exchange of ideas, • problem solving and consultation. • FREE tools like Skype, • instant messenger, chat and • collaborative platforms like • Linked In and Yammer • facilitate this exchange • Participation is key, • ‘useful’ resources that • support performance is • the best way of • building this • Learners are • in a permanent • state of learning • Are you • capturing • ‘best practice’?

38. 5 moments of opportunity (need)* and how we tend to address them.. *Dr. Conrad Gottfredson - Ontuitive

39. Think about it! • Do you encourage external collaboration? • Use mobile technology? • Tablets? • User created content as part of your learning? • Is social media access • enabled? Linked In? Twitter? • Facebook?

40. Don’t stop being a ‘learner’

41. We must build the Bodleian, the Louvre’s and the Smithsonian’s of learning Our role and mission must be as catalysts of learning. We must be the ‘tour guides’ to direct , guide and ensure that we keep learning to KEEP LEARNING!* *Me

42. Parent “What did you learn today?” Student “Apparently not enough! We have to go back tomorrow!”

43. Observation Listening Trial & error Imitating & copying Thinking Reading Analysing Questioning Discussion

45. pervasive learning

49. Alan Samuel alan.ukinfo@upsidelearning.com http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/ @alan2907