emerging learning

concepts & examples

The Cloud

What’s in the cloud?

• Applications:• Monitoring, Content, Collaboration,

Communication, Finance• Platforms:

• Object Storage, Identity, Database• Infrastructures:

• Computer, Block Storage, Network

The Cloud

Educational purposes:: Developing Collaborating Hosting Managing

The Cloud

Technical and/or soft skill? Anything eLearning can do, it can do. Anything ILT can do, it can do

The Cloud

• Pros: Accessibility, Version Control, Evolving

• Cons: Performance, Security, Features, Evolving

Example of a cloud-based application: Claro is a cloud-based authoring tool designed

to facilitate cloud-based collaboration Other features:

Rapid Authoring GUI = PPT/Lectora hybrid Cross-platform publishing

Social LearningCharacteristics: Decentralized approach Relies on shared knowledge & experience to build new

knowledge (wherein the whole greater than then sum) Open-ended & Informal experience

Educational purposes: Highly personalized learning experiences Limitless collaboration (across time, space, culture) Build community and solidarity Multiple roles

Social Learning

Technical & Soft Skill• Collaborative courseware• User Groups, Learning Communities

Social Learning

Pros: More then scalable, fluid Embowers learners (not only to learn but to help and teach)Cons: We don’t know how to manage (fluid)? Validity of data

Social Learning

How other companies are using social learning: Topyx is a “Social LMS” Cloud-based collaboration for students and

designers/facilitators/admins Embedded learning communities (again for students and

designers/facilitators/admins) Integrate Social Media Tools such as: Facebook, LinkedIn and

Twitter

mLearning

Basic definition:• Any training delivered via cell phone or tablet• Any form of instructional design can be

repurposed for a mobile device (just not as a 1:1 conversion)

mLearning

Educational purposes (technical)• Performance Support• On-site/Out of office

Educational purposes (soft skills)• Personal Learning Environment• Learning community

mLearning

Pros• Portable• Accessible• Personal

Cons• Smaller screen size• Multiple platforms can mean multiple versions to

build & manage

• HTML5 is an increasingly popular choice for developing cross-platform eLearning with particular emphasis on mLearning.

• Content developed via HTML5 can be played on an Android phone, Blackbrerry phone, iPad, iPhone, PC or Mac computer.

mLearning

HTML5-based mLearning examples

http://ow.ly/aLDDe