This document discusses how learning and e-learning platforms have transformed over time. It outlines how learning has evolved from traditional classroom approaches to more individualized and online activities. It also discusses how e-learning platforms have been available since the 1990s and facilitate learning through customizable online courses. Finally, it explores emerging technologies like automation, 5G, AI, voice, blockchain, and analytics that are shaping the skills needed for the 21st century workplace and driving the continued integration of technology and online learning.

1. TRANSFORMING
HOW PEOPLE LEARN
SPEAKER: ROBERT DELIA

2. SESSION OUTLINE
• Transformation of Learning: Learning Through The Years.
• E-Learning Platforms: Disruption or Enablement?

3. HOW DO WE LEARN?
• Learning has evolved through the years from the traditional
forms of observation and classroom-led approaches to more
individualistic and online activities.
• What has remained the same is the multi-sensory approach to
learning, whereby learners are now more prone to use varied
forms of learning.
• With wave after wave of technology advancements, today’s
workers have become increasingly dependent upon appropriate
technology to meet their work demands.
• In an ever-increasing connected digital landscape, the future
trends for learning and development seem ever-more intertwined
with technology.

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5. E-LEARNING PLATFORMS: DISRUPTION OR ENABLEMENT?

6. E-LEARNING PLATFORMS
• E-learning platforms have been available since the early
1990s, when online learning was introduced for distance
learning courses.
• The whole concept behind e-learning is to facilitate the
learning process by providing a standard learning process
that can subsequently be customised by the individual learner.
• As innovative technology has both facilitated our lives and
made us faster, e-learning is the way forward for providing a
blended learning approach.
DISRUPTION OR ENABLEMENT?

7. E-LEARNING PLATFORMS
DISRUPTION OR ENABLEMENT?
• Through a blended learning approach, E-learning allows
people to learn at their own pace and in their own time
whilst simultaneously reducing training costs significantly.
• Nonetheless, E-learning can never substitute entirely face-to-
face learning as the human intellect is based upon feelings and
does not always work on logical algorithms.
• E-learning’s role as an enabler in the learning process is
crucial since new technological waves leave us no choice but
to transform our own digital dexterity.

8. TECH TRENDS:
• The Tech Trends that have evolved over the past 20 years have
changed the way we live, how we work and communicate, and
especially how we learn.
• The wave of Tech Trends that industry experts expect to be applied in a
more widespread manner within the next 3 to 5 years are:
• Automation
• 5G
• AI
• Voice
• Blockchain
• Analytics
SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE NEEDED FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

9. AutoMation
• “TO STAND STILL, WE NEED TO MOVE VERY
FAST”
• Automation: technologies like cloud
computing, updated robotics, big data, data
analytics and others are already disrupting
how we are used to working and learning.
• The future of automation brings with it
endless work and learning opportunities.
• Experts believe that leveraging all of the
technologies that come with Automation
will make our lives better and easier.

10. 5G

11. AI
• Forming part of automation, AI has
become a trendsetter in its’ own right.
• As computers learn in exactly the same
way as humans can, with expected
increases in computing power, computers
will be able to start doing more complex
human tasks at lightning speeds.
• Further innovations in AI are now allowing
facial recognition, speak through voice
technologies and understand via
messaging and reporting.

12. VOICE
• Developments in Voice Technologies like Siri, Alexa, Hello Google and others have been
useful though at times fall short of human expectations.
• Due to its’ organic and free-flowing nature, voice technology will become increasingly
important in daily lives.
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is expected to allow computers understand the true
meaning of voice – tone, sarcasm, puns and possible even deeper contexts clues.

13. Blockchain
• Although Blockchain has been mainly associated with cryptocurrency so far, it is bound
to provide a secure underlying framework to many aspects of our digital lives.
• Blockchain will allow different forms of technology to communicate securely and
verifiably.
• We can expect employees’ digital dexterity requirements to increase as further
blockchain applications are introduced to industry.

14. analytics
• Analytics are set to be the game changer in
industry
• Not only can analytics advise you on your
organisation’s performance, but more importantly
they can help you predict how the markets will
change
• The next generation of employees to join the
workforce will need to be conversant with
analytics due to the significant amount of data
processing taking place to turn that data into
useful information
• Hence analytics tools utilizing machine learning
will be increasingly needed to interpret the ever-
increasing dependence on data to identify issues
and take action

15. SUMMARY:
• Employees’ skills and knowledge are nowadays developed through a
mix of experiences and other opportunities that they either observe or
else participate in.
• The most important skill that employees will have is the capacity to
learn, unlearn and relearn skills that will have to adapt to changes faced
within ever-changing industries.
SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE NEEDED FOR THE 21ST CENTURY