eMerging eLearning - 3 fundamental trends shaping learning.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Social LearningTechnical & Soft Skill• Collaborative courseware• User Groups, Learning Communities

Social LearningPros: 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

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

mLearningBasic 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)

mLearningEducational purposes (technical)• Performance Support• On-site/Out of officeEducational purposes (soft skills)• Personal Learning Environment• Learning community

mLearningPros• Portable• Accessible• PersonalCons• Smaller screen size• Multiple platforms can mean multiple versions to build & manage

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.

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

eMerging eLearning - 3 fundamental trends shaping learning.

by Joe McCahill

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