This document discusses digital learning and technology. It begins by outlining the current landscape of digital learning, which includes blended learning, webinars/virtual classrooms, learning libraries/wikis, audio learning/podcasts, and rapid authoring software. It then discusses the benefits and challenges of technology-enhanced learning, including learner interaction with content, experts, other learners, and social/enterprise media. Finally, it considers near future opportunities around big data and augmented reality to further connect learners with digital content and real-world contexts.

1. Digital Learning & Technology – The
Good, The Bad and the Ugly [image from the New York
Institute of Technology at https://www.nyit.edu/box/features/nyit_introduced_teaching_machines_in_1950s]

2. 1. Landscape of digital learning
2. Discussing our good, bad and ugly
3. Near Futures
Structure

3. Technology enhanced learning (CIPD 2012)
Blended learning [36%]
Webinars & virtual classrooms [20%]
Learning libraries & wikis [17%]
Audio learning & podcasts [14%]
Rapid authoring software [13%]
E-books [11%]
Through social media, eg, Facebook,
Twitter, etc. [5%]
Mobile learning using smartphones [3%]

5. … the adjacent possible
Image from New Media Consortium 2007: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nmc-campus/2090945217/

6. Interactional
Learner Content
Learner
Learner
Learner
Instructor/ expert
Learner
Context

7. Typology

8. Learner to content
SOP instructions/
how to/
compliance

9. Learner to content (& context?)
SOP instructions/
how to/
compliance
Scenarios/ simulations/ games

10. Virtubio [http://www.virtub.io/en/]

11. Learner to learner, expert, content &
context
SOP instructions/
how to/
compliance
Scenarios/ simulations/ games
Enterprise Social
Media
PersonalSocial
Media

12. Diag from CIPD L&D survey

13. Not unreasonable to
propose that by 2020 many
organisations will be wholly
reliant on their internal
social network … [becoming]
as essential as telephones
and email are today (CIPD 2013)

15. Twitter chats

16. FOAMed

17. Social Tech in the workplace
CIPD 2013; IBM 2013
1. Access to Expertise
2. Knowledge sharing
3. Insight & intelligence
4. Co-creation & collaboration

18. SOP instructions/
how to/
compliance
Scenarios/ simulations/ games
Enterprise Social
Media
PersonalSocial
Media
Learner to learner, expert, content &
context

19. Learner to ?
SOP instructions/
how to/
compliance
Scenarios/ simulations/ games
Enterprise Social
Media
PersonalSocial
Media
Credentials &
Open Badges

20. Discussion
In groups use the typology to discuss:
What e-learning does your organisation currently deliver
In what ways is this effective?
What are the main challenges for e-learning?
What opportunities/ demands are there to expand e-
learning?
What else worries of interests you about delivering e-
learning?

21. Near futures?

22. BIG Data

23. Augmentation - Learner to context?
Image by Kai Kowalewski (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzlsvFN_5HI

25. Thanks
Pete Evans
peter.evans@ed.ac.uk
Tweets at: @eksploratore