NEVER STOP LEARNING
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YOU
KNOW
JON
SNOW!
NOTHING,
WHEN YOU PLAY THE GAME OF THRONES YOU WIN OR
YOU DIELifelong Learning through the idiom of Westeros
LEARNING IS GREAT!
That is the way society frames the first two decades of a person’s life!
of college graduates will never read an academic text again42%
The percentage of European adults who are engaged in life long learning is:
10%Source:
professionalacademy.com
GRAND MAESTER PYCELLE
Probably has not passed an OFSTED Inspection
SO WHAT IS LIFELONG LEARNING AND WHY DOES IT STOP? It is the process of acquiring new knowledge, skills and competencies in our lives
Learn
Get a Job
Start a family
Stay in the Job
Get Traine
d
Get a Job
KING ROBERT BARATHEON
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Really should have taken a course in effective parenting
THE POST DIGITAL AGE
The Digital Age has ended – it ended with the iPhone, 3G & the Cloud These technologies have shifted the landscape beyond recognition When organisations are Digital by Default their behaviour is more agile Their flexibility is improved and they can disrupt competitors not embracing the future
WE BUILD BARRIERS TO LEARNING
Time! I’m too busy! My job takes up too much time…
Money! Learning costs so
much! I don’t want a MOUNTAIN of student debt…
Information! I don’t know where to start or what to study…
Location! I don’t want to go back to school…
NED STARK
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An Open University Degree in PPE may have enhanced his career prospects
HOW TO BE A LIFELONG LEARNER
Change Your Idea of Learning
Establish Goals
Ask Questio
ns
Find a group
Practice & Teach
what you
learn
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PRINCE VISERYS TARGARYEN
Would have benefited from studying Dothraki as a foreign language
THE CITY VS. TECH CITY
Tech City driving start-ups jobs boom with web developers ‘like gold dust’Evening Standard Headline – 10th Oct 2013
PM unveils Tech City transformationEvening Standard Headline – 12th Dec 2012
The new head of Tech City UK said ‘the time is now’ for Britain to cement its status as a global player in the digital technology and entrepreneurial industries
Gerard Grech in interview - 17th March 2014
LADY LYSA ARRYNPerhaps a crash course with the British Parachuting Organisation?
THE UK IS FALLING BEHIND
Lifelong education is not the norm - our global competitors are outperforming us
Of UK nationals hold a masters level degree or above7%
The percentage of US adults who hold a masters level degree or above is
15%Source: ONS & New York
Times
PRINCE OBERYN MARTELL
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A Law Conversion Course may have been better for his health
LEARNING BRINGS CAREER BENEFITS There is always something that we can learn that will improve the way we work
You are not alone – find co-workers & friends who want to learnOrganise!
The Tech Community is open standards based and often open source, learn, benefit and collaborate Share!
Why are you, your organisation and your friends doing things in that way?Question!
KING JOFFREY BARATHEON
Would have benefited from ILM certification and membership to ancestry.com
HELP THOSE AROUND YOU
The most amazing thing has happened - we are in an interconnected digital world
IT IS NEVER TO LATE!
YOU
And I am OK with thatKN
OWJON
SNOW!
NOTHING,
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Game of Thrones (or a Song of Ice and Fire) is awesome – The books are by George R.R Martin, the TV Series by HBO. Images from the TV series used with love, adoration and the UK’s far less litigious fair use copyright laws on Parody