How can we enable & facilitate this?
Alan Samuel
@alan2907
Middle East
New Zealand
S.Africa
Nigeria
Kenya
Singapore
Venezuela
13
165+
clients in
countries
Established
in 2004
Australia
India
UK
US
Custom/ Bespoke
eLearning
Custom/Bespoke
mLearning
Innovative
learning
solutions for
enhanced
performance
Winner of a Silver award in CLO
magazine's 'Learning In Practice
Awards 2011' for UpsideLMS
UpsideLMS listed as one of
the 'Five Emerging LMSs to Watch'
in CLO Magazine ('10)
Winner of 7 Apex
Awards of Excellence
('11, '09, '08 & '07)
Winner of 11 Brandon Hall
Excellence Awards
(‘12, '11, '10 & '09)
UpsideLMS featured in the '2010
Top 20 Learning Portal Companies List' and
'2011 & 2012 Watch List‘
by TrainingIndustry.com
Winner of Red Herring 100 Asia
Award in 2008 & finalist
in Red Herring Global 100 ('09)
Winner in Deloitte’s Technology
Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2008 & 2009
program, and Fast 50 India 2008 program
30+
Awards &
recognitions
Few of Our
Prestigious
Clients
Alan Samuel
Amit Garg
Founder & Director – Custom Learning Solutions
Director Client Solutions (Europe)
Presenters
Why?
“Learning is a
collaborative,
continuous, connected
and community-based’
growth mindset.”*
*Dan Pontefract – Flat Army:
Creating a connected and engaged
organisation
The “speed of need”
has accelerated
Technology has / hasn’t helped – its
made more (learning) available
It’s unavoidable
Says who?
He did....
Or did
the spider?
She did....
He did....
“ I am still learning”
- Michelangelo, aged 87
They do...
And
He did....
What did
YOU
learn
today?
HOW
did you
learn
today?
When?
Where?
Why?
a. How to do something? A skill?
b. Where to find something? A
restaurant? A website? A shop?
c. Why something happens?
Natural phenomena? Bank rates?
What did
YOU
today?
learn
HOW
did you
Today?
learn
a. Did you use technology to learn? A
phone? A tablet?
b. I saw someone do something? I
watched a video? Saw it on TV?
c. Someone told you about something
new? You heard someone?
Poll
Welcome to
Pervasive
learning
What
is it?
It’s not in
a box
(or the LMS)
Pervasive
learning
Omnipresent..
Continuous!
Where does
it happen?
How does
it happen?
Pervasive
technology
Myriad
forms
Dan Pontefract, defines
pervasive learning as:
“learning at the
speed of need
Through formal,
informal and
social learning
modalities”
and illustrates this as …
He advocates the 3:33 model
The 3:33 model is equal parts of formal,
informal & social learning
Informal learning = 66% or 90%
Conducive environment = learning opportunities
= pervasive learning
Pervasive Learning – the challenges
Volume of
information;
Sources of
information;
Authority of
information
Informal
sharing &
collaboration
networks
State of
individual
and
organisational
learning
Speed of
change
Individually
sourced
materials
Capture of
informal
knowledge
exchanges
Managing
a dynamic
environment
Today’s
learning
Environment
The ‘real’
learning
environment(s)!
Tomorrow’s
learning
environment
a. Linked In
b. Twitter
c. Facebook
d. Any other
e. None
What
do you
use?
do you find
The most
useful?
a. Linked In
b. Twitter
c. Facebook
d. Any other
e. None
Poll
What
Social media
Social media
Enabling
Pervasive
learning
The
components
Personal &
professional
networks
Uses multiple
devices
Collaborates &
shares freely
Independent
networker
Customisable
Control
Low tolerance
of ‘clunky’ tech
Technology
aware
Point of need
driven
Expectations
of technology
People
“The greater value
of education for every
student is not in learning the
information but in learning
the skills they need to
successfully
find, consume, think about
and apply it
in their lives.”
* Statement by British
Columbia’s Ministry of
Education
Content
Designed to
be applied
and used
Contributory
content
Engaging!
Easily
accessed
and
searchable
Concise,
contextually
relevant,
useful
Aligned to
point of need
Technology
Extend access
and delivery via
new technologies –
tablets & smartphones
today.. glasses
tomorrow?
Discussion
boards,
external feeds,
real time
‘chat’
Platforms that
allow peer-to-peer
interaction, groups
and communities,
user generated
content
Access,
sharing and
collaboration
are the
key drivers
A
pervasive
learning
culture
“I have no special
talents. I am only
passionately
curious”
Albert Einstein
Creating access to
“learning
experiences”
Collaboration and
sharing
Providing
materials created
and relevant to the
context to need
Facilitating and
enabling
Exploiting
technology to
enable and deliver
Breaking down
silos of
information
The
building
blocks
Key
drivers and
influencers
Learners are
in a permanent
state of learning
The culture and
behaviour of
the organisation,
departments and
groups can be varied
e.g. Finance v/s Sales
Participation is key,
‘useful’ resources that
support performance is
the best way of
building this
Are you
capturing
‘best practice’?
Collaboration and sharing
allow an instant exchange of ideas,
problem solving and consultation.
FREE tools like Skype,
instant messenger, chat and
collaborative platforms like
Linked In and Yammer
facilitate this exchange
When
learning for
the first
time
Classroom, observation, on the job
PCs & tablets
When
wanting to
learn more
Reading, watching, discussion, questionin
g
PCs & tablets
When
trying to
remember
or apply
Referencing,enquiry, ask someone
Smartphones, tablets & PCs
When
things
change
Collaboration, reference, ask someone
Smartphones, tablets & PCs
When
something
goes wrong
Collaboration, reference, ask someone
Smartphones, tablets & PCs
5 moments of opportunity (need)* and
how we tend to address them..
*Dr. Conrad Gottfredson - Ontuitive
Think
about it!
Do you encourage
external collaboration?
Is social media access
enabled? Linked In?
Twitter?
Facebook?
Use mobile technology?
Tablets?
User created content as
part of your learning?
Don’t stop being
a ‘learner’
We must be the ‘tour guides’
to direct , guide and ensure
that we keep learning to
KEEP LEARNING!*
*Me
We must build the
Bodleian, the
Louvre’s and
the Smithsonian’s
of learning
Our role and mission
must be as catalysts
of learning.
“What did
you learn today?”
Parent
Student
“Apparently
not enough!
We have to
go back
tomorrow!”
Observation
Trial & error
Thinking
Analysing
Listening
Imitating &
copying
Reading
Questioning
Discussion
pervasive
learning
Alan Samuel
alan.ukinfo@upsidelearning.com
http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/
@alan2907

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