Many companies are struggling to provide training and skills quickly enough to keep pace with how they, their markets, competitors, and customers are changing. How can learning professionals adapt to this fast pace of change? Phil Aspden from eGenius' Phil Aspden uncovers better ways of learning and development in the workplace by doing it and helping others do it.

1. Agile Learning
Phil Aspden
@philaspden
@egeniuslta

2. What is the agile learning concept?
● learning happens all the time
● learning happens whether you organise it or not
● agile learning provides just enough information at the
right time and in the right context
● information>knowledge>skills through learning

3. We need more discretionary learning
Discretionary learning workplaces:
Portugal 26% of employees covered
Spain 20%
UK 35%
Netherlands 64%
Denmark 60%
Professor Ewart Keep
Sweden 53%
Centre on Skills, Knowledge &
Organisational Performance
Finland 48%
Germany 44.%
SOURCE: OECD, 2010

4. But instead we have a lot of ‘lean’
UK 40.6% of employees
Netherlands 17%
Denmark 22%
Sweden 18.5%
Germany 19.6%
Professor Ewart Keep
Centre on Skills, Knowledge & Organisational
Performance

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7. A whole new field of learning
facilitation
● just in time
● in context - part of workflow
● good enough [solves the problem]
● iterative

8. Agile learning is….
● Just in time
● Just where I need it
● Just enough

9. Heuristics and reflection
● heuristics - devising a solution that is less than optimal
● reflective practice develops what WOULD have been
the optimal solution for use next time

10. Social
● approval of solutions provided
● sharing of other ideas/ solutions in a
‘community’
● favourite/ like/ re-tweet/ direct messages
● capacity for personal development

11. grow the knowledge community
NOT the knowledge base/ intellectual capital/
etc etc etc

12. Technology enables and enhances agile
learning: industrial/ manufacturing
● video and animation - with hyper labelling
● augmented reality - from a 2D ‘map’ or target
● Google glass/ Oculus rift
● animated process/ cgi
● simulation/ 3D environment
● social - ‘favourite/ like’ solution
or suggestions

13. Technology enables and enhances agile
learning: Healthcare
● specific lifting and carrying advice [animated/ video]
information - QR coded/ interactive wifi
● animated guides to using equipment/ processes
● health condition/ treatment specific info for patients
● interactive checklist - sequence limited
● social network - routines completed
- tweeted

14. Enablers
● Internal drivers
o commitment of leadership
o cost/efficiency/ safety
o commitment of time and energy
● BYOD
● Social/ Intelligent WiFi
● Investment

15. So what does it look like?

16. Key skills
curation
facilitation
performance management [with empathy/
flexibility and sensitivity] - manager 2.0

18. The Agile manifesto
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by
doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we
have come to value:
● Individuals and interactions over Processes and tools
● Working software over Comprehensive documentation
● Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation
● Responding to change over Following a plan

19. An Agile learning manifesto
We value:
● Individuals and their interactions over academic models and classroom
learning delivery
● Improved working and increased outputs over traditional assessments
of learning and qualifications or awards
● Employee collaboration over centralised learning delivery
● Responding to real wants and needs over simply providing what is
available