3 fundamental trends shaping learning.

1. emerging learning

2. concepts & examples

3. The Cloud
What’s in the cloud?
• Applications:
• Monitoring, Content, Collaboration,
Communication, Finance
• Platforms:
• Object Storage, Identity, Database
• Infrastructures:
• Computer, Block Storage, Network

4. The Cloud
Educational purposes::
 Developing
 Collaborating
 Hosting
 Managing

5. The Cloud
Technical and/or soft skill?
 Anything eLearning can do, it can do.
 Anything ILT can do, it can do

6. The Cloud
• Pros: Accessibility, Version Control,
Evolving
• Cons: Performance, Security, Features,
Evolving

7. Example of a cloud-based application:
 Claro is a cloud-based authoring tool designed
to facilitate cloud-based collaboration
 Other features:
 Rapid Authoring
 GUI = PPT/Lectora hybrid
 Cross-platform publishing

9. Social Learning
Characteristics:
 Decentralized approach
 Relies on shared knowledge & experience to build new
knowledge (wherein the whole greater than then sum)
 Open-ended & Informal experience

10. Social Learning
Educational purposes:
 Highly personalized learning experiences
 Limitless collaboration (across time, space, culture)
 Build community and solidarity
 Multiple roles

11. Social Learning
Technical & Soft Skill
• Collaborative courseware
• User Groups, Learning Communities

12. Social Learning
Pros:
 More then scalable, fluid
 Embowers learners (not only to learn but to help and teach)
Cons:
 We don’t know how to manage (fluid)?
 Validity of data

13. How other companies are using social learning:
 Topyx is a “Social LMS”
 Cloud-based collaboration for students and
designers/facilitators/admins
 Embedded learning communities (again for students and
designers/facilitators/admins)
 Integrate Social Media Tools such as: Facebook, LinkedIn and
Twitter

15. mLearning
Basic definition:
• Any training delivered via cell phone or tablet
• Any form of instructional design can be
repurposed for a mobile device (just not as a
1:1 conversion)

16. mLearning
Educational purposes (technical)
• Performance Support
• On-site/Out of office
Educational purposes (soft skills)
• Personal Learning Environment
• Learning community

17. mLearning
Pros
• Portable
• Accessible
• Personal
Cons
• Smaller screen size
• Multiple platforms can mean multiple versions to
build & manage

18. mLearning
• HTML5 is an increasingly popular
choice for developing cross-platform
eLearning with particular emphasis
on mLearning.
• Content developed via HTML5 can
be played on an Android phone,
Blackbrerry phone, iPad, iPhone, PC
or Mac computer.

19. HTML5-based mLearning examples
http://ow.ly/aLDDe