The web has shown the way. eLearning needs to follow to be relevant.

Learning Pool Live – 23/10/2013Myles Runham

Head of Online, BBC Academy

• 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…

About corporate eLearning

• Enterprise IT• Systems • LMS• eLearning courses

Production

HRTRAINING

IT/SYSTEMS/TECHNOLOGY

SECURITYPROCUREMENT

Customer

Consumer

What do I mean by eLearning?

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem for which they are

the solution.”

Clay Shirky, April 2012

LEARNING TRAINING COURSE= =

The eLearning tendency

About learning on the web

LEARNING ≈

Finding things out

Getting things done

Trying something out

Making somethingSeeking feedback

Memory substitute

Watching others efforts

Collaborating

Finding experts

…and the web….

≠ COURSE?

Etc…

Learning on the web, you are...

“On the web, you define what is relevant”

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?

The LMS, by contrast...

Where is it?

Who runs it?

How does it feel?

TrainingControlSystem

How to respond?Some tactical ideas…

Organise. Don’t dictate.

Discovery and context

Context and content

Onward navigation

We need new ways of working and new skills

• Start managing a productBeyond course production/commissioning

• Digital product management skills– Design – Information Architecture– User experience – User Interface– Product Management – a lifecycle• Data

Any questions?

• www.bbc.co.uk/academy• myles.runham@bbc.co.uk• Twitter: @mylesrun