These are the slides of my keynote talk at the European Conference on eLearning (ECEL 2013), in Sophia Antipolis 31/10/2013

1. Passionate Learners
Lifelong Learning in a Flux

2. masters and apprentices
 Socrates & Aristotle, Leonardo
 transfer of tacit knowledge
are we loosing something?
 maybe, but not because of elearning
 how about technology?
from depth to breadth
 shallows collect their portfolio of concepts
 they will accept but will they ‘disseminate’?
Education is the kindling of a
flame, not the filling of a
vessel.
BUT IT DOES NOT INCLUDE
LIGHTING THE FIRE!

3. Interactivity is in the mind
not in the mouse.
BUT IT NEEDS A MOUSE.
admin-friendly solutions
 easy to take attendance and check
who completed the preparation task
teacher oriented curriculum
 sequential book-logic
 uploaded slides and pdfs
 do we know the price of everything
and the value of nothing?
automated processing

4. technology is not a/the solution
 but it is an important enabler
learning cannot be managed
 but it must be facilitated, supported, etc.
formal learning is not evil
 but it is simply not sufficient
Insight only comes to the
prepared mind.
HOW ABOUT AN
OPEN MIND?
the school should not teach solutions
 but it should teach seeing the problems
cannot learn everything in ‘small groups’
 but they can apply the concepts

5. for too long too many people learn
 differently than they should
 the same way, in spite being different
learning is a personal choice
 interesting and emotional content
 interesting and respected people
mediocrity is still mediocrity
 constructivism and connectionism
 good and bad teacher are the same
Any teacher that can be
replaced by a machine
SHOULD BE!

6. provider-driven elearning platform
 super high-tech GUI
 branded and controlled by provider
content-driven MOOC design
 reverse standardization from VLEs
 character, plot, and personal story
elearning is the most important
thing since the invention of printing
BUT IS IT QUITE HERE YET?
learner-driven outcome?
 cherry pickers are no failures
 certificate about the concept web

7. guides/rankings
journals
CMS
bookmarks
e-content
knowledge
resources
blogs
Moodle
MOOCs
???
documents
COLLABORATION
experience
innovation
mashup
CONTENT
knowledge management
Doctus ES
MaaS
e-COACH
citizen
innovator
concept
mapping
business
simulations
social media
as a service
Hybrid
Learning
Platform
TOOLS
open-source-based
SERVICES
ERP
startup tools
IaaS
SaaS
PaaS