1.
Social Scholar
Developing Trends in Online Learning
School of Advanced Study – 19/3/2014
Myles Runham
Head of Online, BBC Academy

2.
• An imposter
• I have no eLearning background, no training or HR
background, no Psychology qualification
• An opinionated imposter
• Formed from 16 years of online efforts - some of those in
online education/learning (small ‘e’, small ‘l’)
• An opinionated imposter from the BBC Academy
• Central Function
• Centre of expertise
• BBC and industry objectives
About Me…

3.
Faced with a learning need,
what do we think of?

4.
Or…?

5.
“Institutions will try to preserve
the problem for which they are
the solution.”
Clay Shirky, April 2012

6.
Or…?

7.
What expectations do these products set?
• User focus
• Relevance
• Discoverable (search)
• Shareable
• Reusable
• Simple
• Social
• Fresh/Timely

8.
Source: Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
1 Twitter
2 GoogleDocs/Drive
3 YouTube
4 Google Search
5 PowerPoint
6 Evernote
7 Dropbox
8 Wordpress
9 Facebook
10 Google+/Hangouts
Top 10 tools for Learning 2013
Are web learning tools special?

9.
Trying to solve an “training eLearning problem”
Courses
&
Classes
• Familiar
• “easy” to
produce
• Formal
• Linear
• Predictable
• Trackable
• Rich
• Not discoverable
• Expensive
• Hard to maintain
• Long
• Locked away/internal
• Not distributable or
shareable
• Exclusive

10.
Clips
Trying to solve an “training eLearning problem”
• Open
• Distributed
• Discoverable
• Short
• Cheap(er)
• Felxible
• Standard
• Shareable
• Short
• Interaction limited
• Narrative limitations
• Hard to treat a
subject/theme in depth
• Not “familiar”
• Not (well) packaged
• Accreditation
measurement

11.
Unpack
formal
Package
short form
content
How are we trying to resolve this problem?
Clips
Courses
&
Classes
• Collections
• Playlists
• Curation
• Personalisation
• eBooks
• Apps
• Open badges?
• Tin Can API?

12.
102070
Formal
training
Coaching and
mentoring and
expertise
Experience
A (new) model for learning in organisations

13.
Two new mantras for (informal) learning
“Show, don’t tell”
“How to...”

14.
How to respond?
Some tactical ideas…

15.
Organise. Don’t dictate.

16.
Discovery and context

17.
Context and content

18.
Onward navigation

19.
Digital learning providers need new
ways of working and new skills
• Start managing a product
Beyond course production/commissioning
• Digital product management skills
– Design
– Information Architecture
– User experience
– User Interface
– Product Management – a lifecycle
• Data

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Any questions?
• www.bbc.co.uk/academy
• myles.runham@bbc.co.uk
• Twitter: @mylesrun