Presentation at GETS conference in Cape Town on technology is evolving modern learning theory and the applications for Africa.

1. Evolution of Modern
Learning Theory & “The
New World of Learning”

2. Who am I
• Stand up IT trainer for 10 years.
• Built one of Europe’s first and largest
elearning companies - FUEL
• My companies have created the strategy
and developed learning solutions for 50% of
the FTSE 100
• Started Fusion Universal in 2008 as a
social enterprise focused on designing and
delivering a digital literacy elearning
program across Africa.

3. Focus of the
presentation
• Share my lessons and apply them to the challenges of
Universal Quality Education:
• - How have the world’s biggest brands evolved their
recent learning theory to be more competitive and how
will they evolve further?
• - For my team who are designing learning for the
biggest brands - how do they Learn?
• - As a person who has been at the forefront of learning
- how I do I learn in 2010
• - How would I want my children to learn in a classroom
and beyond?

4. Technology - The biggest impact on learning
theory since the tablet
Traditional learning theory is
dying as technology creates new
ways to learn
Time where current
learning theory was developed and is
still being taught

5. Adult learning -
Starts Again
The best thing that ever
happened to the corporate
learning industry &
Universities/Colleges

6. During the recession -
Businesses started
analysing why errors
were so often repeated -
Answers were obvious ..
Courses didn’t deliver what they were
designed for..
Reality was - the normal way to teach was
with the expectation that everything taught
was remembered ..
Learning Directors knew for a long time that
100% formal learning interventions were
designed for failure
Organisations equated ineffective learning
directly with business errors for the 1st time

7. Little choice
But we used to have little choice but to
treat everyone with the idea that they
had Elephant type memories..
Reality was that the most common
way to learn was from mistakes or ask
the person next to you
Little choice, until recently ..

8. The rise of informal
learning technology
for vocational & role
based skills -
reduce errors by…
New learning solutions are being
re-defined as..
- 80% informal
- 20% through formal brain
friendly courses
80%

9. Before we explore -
Informal learning &
brain friendly
learning ..
Which organisation has
more learners enrolled
than Harvard, Oxford,
Cambridge & the next
10 Universities
combined ?

10. Lynda - A model for
informal learning
Knowledge on IT skills with focus
on web design
Lynda.com
It is the most used method by my 20 million users a month
designers (amongst 20 million
others) but.... WHY -
Why choose Lynda & not a
college & what can you learn
from their success ?

11. A bit about Lynda
• Offers choice of 450 courses or
as my staff use it, the 5 minute
video they want there and then
(this is the simple but
revolutionary bit and this is the
Informal bit) ....
• $25 a month subscription for all
courses
• Instructors paid on Royalties for
usage.
• Freedom to learn my way
(informal)

12. Why are 20 million
people choosing
Lynda instead of
University or college
courses ?
Easy to access
Effective - My needle in a
haystack
Affordable
Duration

13. Who is Lynda ?

14. Lynda

15. • Once technology is pervasive
and the learning is available in
digestible chunks then the key
skill becomes finding the right
answer rather than knowing the
right answer
• Most Universities and Colleges
do not create ready competent
workers read but they could with
a different approach..

16. Vocational learning
& the Lynda
approach
• Once technology is pervasive and the learning is
available in digestible chunks then the key skill
becomes finding the right answer rather than
knowing the right answer
• Most Universities and Colleges do not create
ready competent workers read but they could
with a different approach..
• Company really wants is to accelerate learning
of inductees with role specific/vocational skills
• This is why the freedom of the Lynda approach
and other informal learning tools are such a
revelation to my staff and others

17. Informal learning by
Apple ...
• Want to become Mac, iPhone or Mac
Application literate? then ...
• 90 seconds of motivation and engagement
then ....
• Simple, engaging, concise 2 minute
simulations
• A menu to choose what I want to learn
next...

18. Lynda.com, Apple &
Vodafone - Models
for informal learning
• I don’t have to remember the
knowledge, as it is easy to get
back to
• Because I access it, as I need
it, my practise will be in context
to a real need which will help
with long term retention
• Knowledge is always there
• Available anywhere I can
connect

19. Informal learning
• Learning, step by step
instructions when I need it
• When technology allows this to
happen, learning design and
effect is transformed reduce errors by…
• 80% Informal (designed)
• 20% formal courses (online or
classroom)
80%

20. Modern learning theory is not
being defined by the
traditional academic
community. It is being defined
by the masses as they use
technology to choose a
different route
Universities & Colleges are the slowest to
adopt
Corporations are faster than academics to
embrace “the new world of learning”
Consumers and individuals are showing us
the way through their choices

21. Technology companies
influence on online
learning & the new
learning theories that are
being created because of
them ..
6 billion Google searches a day.
Most common way to learn &
research
64 million professional Linkedin
users discussing latest thinking
within their global communities

22. How Do I learn in
2010
• 50% - Google replaces my “know it all
friend”
• 20% - I want a new skill, learning 2 to
5 minutes at a time (or until my
attention goes) in concise visual walk-
throughs
• 10% - I want opinions and latest
thinking - Linkedin forum
discussions/Twitter suggestions
• 10% - Books and magazines
(electronic in the very near future)
• Discussion, conferences and Events

23. Lynda/Apple/ITunesU have shown the
way
What will the future of vocational
learning look like for people wanting to
work in Agriculture, Banking, Health,
Construction and what is the role of
education ministries to be part of it?
Who is going to
create it ?
You, me, Lynda ?

24. Accelerated
Learning & Brain
Friendly Learning

25. The most powerful
accelerated learning
technique is
storytelling
The fastest way to change a behaviour
or an action is to change the story in
your head
I was really scared of heights
- My story of sky-diving was ..

26. I changed the Story
to ..
Greatest sense of beauty and
freedom I can imagine
Exhilarating and exciting
No experience will ever make me
feel as tranquil or as free

27. Changing the Story
Changes the feeling
Which changes the action

28. How does this story
and other
accelerated learning
techniques relate to
elearning?
2 Examples
- Secondary school
- De-mystifying technology

29. Accelerated learning
content on a Smart board,
delivered interactively with
a teacher, with their
parents at an Internet cafe
or in a classroom self-
study..
Storytelling
Motivation
Internalisation
Engagement
Audio/Visual, Interactive
Use of Mnemonics

30. Social Learning - Web 2.0
technologies designed for
explicitly for learning. The next
big thing in learning design
Addressing the issue of teach &
forget..
Time and attention the enemies of
learning

31. Click Screen Capture

32. Preview or pre-record Save and Continue

33. Start the Recording

35. Automatic Transcode Available for PC, Mac, iPhone/iPad

36. Add some tags for easy
search

37. Available for my global
community to watch (or publish to
YouTube for all) to PC and 22,000 servers across the world
Mobile

38. Social Learning
addresses the issue
of teach & forget by..
Making my best explanation
available FOREVER to refresh
2 Biggest enemies of learning are
time and attention - this deals
with one..

39. How do Social
Learning technologies
like Jambok help?
• Extends the teacher/professor to outside the
moment
• Allows students who miss a class to catchup
and receive elsewhere
• Students that have to leave school but want
to receive on-going education could
continue through Internet Cafe’s
• Becoming easier & easier to create a digital
primary & secondary school program for any
subject

40. Conclusions &
Reflections

41. How would I want
my child to learn?
• In a manner that maintains his attention
(unlikely to be through lecture)
• Through collaboration with other students
and the teacher
• Continued collaboration through social
learning platforms to allow on-going
collaboration and discussion.
• Knowledge comes from the best source &
explained using accelerated learning
techniques
• Have available self-paced digital content
with brain friendly learning built in so he
can continue to learn when away from the
classroom

42. What does the paradigm shift
in learning theory mean for
Africa
• Vocational learning is back on a level
playing field as Universities globally
are trying to understand the new
world and are slow to move
• Who are going to be the Lynda’s of
Health, Construction, Finance ..
• The cost to create this type of online
learning environment for a vocational
skill has massively diminished
• E-learning implemented correctly is a
massive aid, to assist with the issue
of the gap of quality teachers needed
across Africa - true ‘education for all’

43. Final thought
Knowledge on how to use technology as a learning tool and which
sites to go to learn from is becoming the critical 21st century learning
skills...
From Tablet to Tablet

44. Thank You
steve.dineen@fusion-universal.com