Online Learning: Developing Trends
Date: 1pm-2pm, Wednesday 19 March 2014
Location: room 233, Senate House
Speaker: Myles Runham, Head of Online, BBC Academy
This month, for the Social Scholar, Myles Runham, Head of Online, BBC Academy will be talking with us about his experience of using social media. The BBC has long created online education and learning content but the promotional and discoverability side of this is less widely discussed. This seminar, therefore, offers us an opportunity to find out how the BBC uses social media, why they use it, and what benefits they expect to gain from it.
The seminar is FREE and open to all, including SAS Staff. As per usual we will be tweeting from the event @SASNews using the hashtag: #socialscholar.
1. Social Scholar
Developing Trends in Online Learning
School of Advanced Study – 19/3/2014
Myles Runham
Head of Online, BBC Academy
2. • An imposter
• I have no eLearning background, no training or HR
background, no Psychology qualification
• An opinionated imposter
• Formed from 16 years of online efforts - some of those in
online education/learning (small ‘e’, small ‘l’)
• An opinionated imposter from the BBC Academy
• Central Function
• Centre of expertise
• BBC and industry objectives
About Me…
10. What expectations do these products set?
• User focus
• Relevance
• Discoverable (search)
• Shareable
• Reusable
• Simple
• Social
• Fresh/Timely
11. Source: Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
1 Twitter
2 GoogleDocs/Drive
3 YouTube
4 Google Search
5 PowerPoint
6 Evernote
7 Dropbox
8 Wordpress
9 Facebook
10 Google+/Hangouts
Top 10 tools for Learning 2013
Are web learning tools special?
12.
13. Trying to solve an “training eLearning problem”
Courses
&
Classes
• Familiar
• “easy” to
produce
• Formal
• Linear
• Predictable
• Trackable
• Rich
• Not discoverable
• Expensive
• Hard to maintain
• Long
• Locked away/internal
• Not distributable or
shareable
• Exclusive
14. Clips
Trying to solve an “training eLearning problem”
• Open
• Distributed
• Discoverable
• Short
• Cheap(er)
• Felxible
• Standard
• Shareable
• Short
• Interaction limited
• Narrative limitations
• Hard to treat a
subject/theme in depth
• Not “familiar”
• Not (well) packaged
• Accreditation
measurement
15. Unpack
formal
Package
short form
content
How are we trying to resolve this problem?
Clips
Courses
&
Classes
• Collections
• Playlists
• Curation
• Personalisation
• eBooks
• Apps
• Open badges?
• Tin Can API?
23. Digital learning providers need new
ways of working and new skills
• Start managing a product
Beyond course production/commissioning
• Digital product management skills
– Design
– Information Architecture
– User experience
– User Interface
– Product Management – a lifecycle
• Data