Learning Technologies Anytime Anywhere Haggard For Video Arts 4 March 09

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Achieving an anywhere, anytime approach to learning

Welcome to theVideo Arts web seminar1145 – 1230, 4 March 2009

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Speakers

• Stephen Haggard, New Media consultant

• Lesley McGuire, Learning Technology Manager at Macmillan Cancer Support

• Martin Addison, Managing Director at Video Arts

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Opportunities for innovation

Stephen Haggard

New Media Consultant

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Anytime Anywhere LearningRUSH to e-learning purchases

Access AND flexibility

64% organisations RAISING proportion of training spend on e-learning 2009-10

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Understanding learners

• Survey of 674 website visitors• > 67%:

• u- 40• personal motivation (not mandated)

• > 51%:• Prospective not actual learners • Arrive from search engine or search on parent

brand• Have searched by subject or topic

Source: Inst of Continuing Education of a Major University, 2008Source: Inst of Continuing Education of a Major University, 2008

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What innovations do they like ?

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Dentists’ dilemmaWhat kind of CPD?

Online learning : the future

Attending courses: the past

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Professional Learning Practice

• Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education

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The age of the pencil….

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… of remote control

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Learning community, anyone ?

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Blank screen

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The anywhere anytime paradox

Do I really want to do my learning anywhere?

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Poll two: Have you used anything that could be described as ‘anywhere anytime learning’?

A) All the time – it’s the way of the future!

B) Occasionally, when it’s fitting

C) Never – give me a classroom any day!

e.g. web conferencing, e-learning, social networking, Wikis, blogging, podcasting, forums, instant messaging, anything else web-based….

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Generation Y

GratificationGratificationFeel entitledFeel entitled

Slap-dashSlap-dashDistractedDistracted

Self-directedSelf-directedConscientiousConscientiousProfessionalProfessionalMulti-taskersMulti-taskers

97 % 97 % file-sharefile-share76 % 76 % online social networkonline social network94 % 94 % mobile ownershipmobile ownership97 % 97 % computer ownershipcomputer ownership

Junco & Mastrodicasa 2007

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Connectivism

• The knowledge is in the network

• Spend less on training, more on connecting

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arrange learning like this

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or like this…

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not like this

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do learning like they do it

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Effective learning is…

Pull“Learners need own rituals of time and space”

Push“Teaching

requires omnipresent

content”

Relax Build

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What is “quality of Learning”?

Where are the learners in the flow of media?

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New Rules

• Linear course = silo

• Content’s power grows with adaptability, not with authority

1. Get connecting - stop authoring

2. Get supporting - stop checking

3. De-link learning from platforms, formats

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Evaluation & Effectiveness

Measuring is easy – get a KPI dashboard package

DWELLTIME USE STICKINESS PAGE CHURN TIME HABIT LINKAGE VERSIONING RE-USE INDEXING DOWNLOADING

FAVOURITING SHARING BOOKMARKING SUBSCRIBING

but participation is what really matters

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Summary

• Yes learning media choice is exploding

• But the choice of media isn’t everything

• Quality of materials is important, always

• Quality of connections even more so

• Learning is process not product

• Beware bandwagons