1. Informal+formal:
powerful learning environment
in a connected world
Wilfred Rubens
http://www.wilfredrubens.com
http://www.slideshare.net/wrubens

3. My ideas about life long, informal and formal learning
How OU wants to facilitate life long, networked learning

4. Life long learning: necessity
(No talent to waste)
© Europa

5. Life long learning: necessity
(No talent to waste)
© Europa
‘Espoused Theory’ or ‘Theory in Use’?

6. Source: NYU Wagner

7. Internettechnology
changes the way we live
Source: NYU Wagner

8. Internettechnology
changes the way we live
But does it change the
way we learn?
Source: NYU Wagner

9. This social might is now moving toward your
company. We have entered the age of empowered
individuals, who use potent new technologies and
harness social media to organize themselves. (...)
Both your customers and your employees have
started marching in this burgeoning social media
multitude, and you’d better get out of their way—
or learn to embrace them.
David Kirkpatrick, 2011

10. “learn to
embrace them”

11. This social might is now
moving toward our company
1: Are 5: Very
you 2 3 4 much
kidding?

12. And what about L&D: is this social might
now moving toward our company ?
1: Are 5: Very
you 2 3 4 much
kidding?

13. What does it mean for
professional learning?

14. Don’t
Add ‘social functionality’ to courses and training

15. Don’t
Add ‘social functionality’ to courses and training
Simplify the dichotomy formal-informal learning

16. +
Complexity
work
- +
Changeability work

17. +
Can you plot
Complexity your organization
or department?
work
- +
Changeability work

18. Activities -: facilitated,
+ informal
+: planned,
organized, formal
Learning -
objects + Setting
- +
Based on Weistra, 2005
+
Content

19. Do
Focus on the affordances of social media for
learning, and apply

20. Do
Focus on the affordances of social media for
learning, and apply
Focus on technology, pedagogy and content
knowledge in a context

21. Do
Focus on the affordances of social media for
learning, and apply
Focus on technology, pedagogy and content
knowledge in a context
Personalization

22. Do
Focus on the affordances of social media for
learning, and apply
Focus on technology, pedagogy and content
knowledge in a context
Personalization
Redesign curricula

23. Social learning
• Encourage & Engage instead of Command & Control
• Collaborative learning
• Interaction, participation and sharing
• Support people to learn continuously in workflow
• Facilitating rich and accesable learning resources (e.g.
courses)
• Improve performance (performance output instead of
learning outcomes)
Source: Jane Hart, 2011

24. Open University: spider in the web of life long learning
Source: km6xo

25. OpenU:
system that facilitates
life long learning
Start:
- Learning Sciences & Technology
- Informatics

26. OpenU:
system that facilitates
life long learning
Start:
- Learning Sciences & Technology
- Informatics

27. Target groups
• Bachelor students
• Master students
• PHD
• Refresh knowledge
• New job or profession
• Keeping up

28. Online services
• Online courses (e.g. Focus programs)
• Topics
• Knowledge subscriptions
• Online masterclasses
• Social media
• Open educational resources
• Platform for collaboration

30. Knowledge subscription
• All digital content online courses
• Access online masterclasses (10 per year)
• Discount F2F events
• Social media
• 240 euro a year

31. Online masterclasses
• Interviews experts about specific subjects
• Articles to read
• Forum (questions previously)
• Interaction by chat
• Moderated
• 0,5 - 1 hour

32. Social media
• Blogging in communities
• Personal blogging
• Search and invite
• Fora
• Wiki
• Integration tweets
• Connection with
Facebook

33. Open educational resources
• Free articles,
blog posts e.g.
• Snapshots courses
• Free courses
• OER is part of OpenU

34. Business model
Free

35. Business model
Registrated users
Free
(free content and
interaction)

36. Business model
Registrated users
Subscribers (all content, access
Free
(free content and
to online master classes, etc)
interaction)

37. Business model
Registrated users
Subscribers (all content, access
Students, Free feedback
(free content and
e.g.
to online master classes, etc)
interaction)

38. Recurrent ‘education’ 2.0
Focus program Subscription
Subscription Master
Course Registration
Focus program Subscription

39. Recurrent education 2.0
• Sustainable committment
• Teaching and learning
• Learning as a life long process, not as an event
• Networked learning

40. My professional development
could be facilitated with such
a learning portal

41. Improvements to be made
• More personalization
• Finalizing redesign curricula
• More options for filtering and focussing

42. Vragen?
wilfred@wilfredrubens.com
http://www.wilfredrubens.com
http://www.slideshare.net/wrubens