Flexible learning platform that augments professional development by providing: 1) Mobile and online resources for lifelong learning in context of professional practice. 2) Predictive, intelligent tools to customize learning for professionals facing changing needs and technologies. 3) Opportunities for professionals to develop tangible and intangible benefits through learning communities and portfolios showing growth in their field.

1. Flexible Learning in Professional Development

2. A next-generation flexible learning platform
that augments professional practice.

3.  Professionals

4.  Under Pressure

5.  Lifelong, Lifewide Learning

6.  It’s personal.

7.  Biggest Players
• Blackboard
• Moodle
• Canvas
• PHP/MySQL CMS systems (e.g. Drupal)

8.  Mobile and ubiquitous technology
 Sustainableprofessional development that
draws from the context of practice
 Predictive,
intelligent learning construction
for working professionals
 Generational changes in workforce

9. A Learning Sciences Perspective

10.  How can we harness what we know about
technology and Learning Sciences to grow
into these markets?
 How can we realize these market
opportunities while providing real value to
our professional clients?

11. A well-understood problem.

14.  Participants must see three kinds of benefits
in order to stick with the system:
• Tangible: Speed, quality, and process benefits in
practice
• Intangible: Confidence, novelty, progress, community
recognition
• Products: Self-created portfolios, PLC ‘publications’
on online network

15. Product Logic

16. Level 1: Data Level 2: Level 3:
Information Knowledge
•Documents •Multimedia resource sites •Resources + Process
•Video and audio •Edited videos •Learning Platform
interviews •Reports •Research-based design
•Career maps •‘Pulled’ •5 ‘ables’ of Web 2.0
•Subject-generated •‘Engaged’
materials
•‘Pushed’

17.  Two Components
• Flexible Learning Platform (FLP)
 Next-generation Performance Support Studio
 Supports adult learning in the context of practice
 Physical, Intellectual, Social, and Emotional Learning
 Advanced Research Engine
• Consulting Services
 Instrument development (FLP guts)
 Educational products (workshops, books, media)
 Localized Cognitive Systems Design Solutions

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Interior Metacognition
Self-Reflection
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Self-Monitoring Metamemory Strategy Selection Imagination
Exterior Metacognition
Theory of Mind Role-Taking Persuasion Historiography Creativity

20. Challenge Outline
Initial Thoughts
Perspectives and Resources
Revisit and Sharing
The Legacy Cycle
Learning Activities
Self-Reflection
Teacher Behavior
Student Behavior
Student Thinking
Suggestions for Improvement
Video-based Reflection

22.  Allows organizations to strategically plan
skill development cycles in practice

23.  Design Thinking in Society
Professional
Learning
Community
Critical Friends Critical Friends
Groups Groups
Studio Spaces Studio Spaces

24.  Monthly subscriptions/hosting
 Localized installations
 Configuration management
 Workshops/consulting for optimization
 Coaching support software
 Corporate-sponsored tool development
 Advertising revenues

25.  Limitations:
• Market is massive, but populated with heavy-
hitters and seasoned veterans
 Potential solution: Co-opetition and cross-marketing
 Plug-ins for existing CMS tools (e.g. Instructure), B2B sales
• Requires corporate-level buy-in
 Potential solution: Listening to clients, thin-software
• Localization challenges
 Potential solution: Process and data analysis,
contextual research, literature reviews, SME interviews