New Paths in Elearning

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New Paths in Elearning

• George Siemens

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Why are you using elearning?
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Uses for elearning

• Strategic advantage
• Reduce costs
• Rapid learning/development
• Increase capacity for performance

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Trends

• Mobile
• Decentralization
• Global
• New Learning Context
• Informal
• Continual
• Embedded in workplace
• Rapid

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Impact of Trends

• Learninglife line in complex, knowledge
  environments
• Interconnected nature of organization and
  individual
• Systems thinking
• Chaos theory
• Complexity theory

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Where are you succeeding in elearning?

• Design

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Where are you succeeding in elearning?

• Technology

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Where are you succeeding in elearning?

• Delivery

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Where are you succeeding in elearning?

• Learner involvement

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Whats wrong?

• Current elearning approach is not sustainable
• Cost of content creation
• Content obsolescence
• Mismatch learning environment and real-life
  learning
• Too much information cant process under
  existing models

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Whats wrong?

• Learning chaotic, nebulous, aggregation, pattern
  recognition, distributed cognition, social
  continual suspended certainty, JIT
• Our current learning tools LMS, LCMS
  structured, hierarchical, rigid, in advance of
  need

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Centralized vs. Decentralized
Complexity requires decentralization
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Whats happening?

• Which tools are you currently using for learning?

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Lets Build an Airplane

• Knowledge is distributed
• Complexity requires aggregation
• Aggregation provides whole picture

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A new path

• Networks
• Connected specialization
• Adaptive learning models
• Diversity of approaches
• Simple, social tools
• Learning and KM

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The role of content

• Is content still king?

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Connectivism

• Learning as network-creation
• Meaning as pattern recognition
• Tools aligned to inherent nature of task

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Lets get practical

• Tools
• Email
• Blended
• F2F
• Social technologies
• Distributed

• Communities
• Mobile
• SOSS
• CMS
• Networks

Connections to content Connections to people
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How can we implement tools and approaches that
work?
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• George Siemens
• www.elearnspace.org
• www.connectivism.ca
• gsiemens_at_elearnspace.org