Pitch for a next-generation learning platform

1. Flexible Learning in Professional Development

2. A next-generation flexible learning platform
that augments professional practice.

3.  Professionals

4.  Under Pressure

5.  Lifelong, Lifewide Learning

6.  It’s personal.

7.  Biggest Players
• Blackboard
• Moodle
• Canvas
• PHP/MySQL CMS systems (e.g. Drupal)

8.  Mobile and ubiquitous technology
 Sustainableprofessional development that
draws from the context of practice
 Predictive,
intelligent learning construction
for working professionals
 Generational changes in workforce

9. A Learning Sciences Perspective

10.  How can we harness what we know about
technology and Learning Sciences to grow
into these markets?
 How can we realize these market
opportunities while providing real value to
our professional clients?

11. A well-understood problem.

14.  Participants must see three kinds of benefits
in order to stick with the system:
• Tangible: Speed, quality, and process benefits in
practice
• Intangible: Confidence, novelty, progress, community
recognition
• Products: Self-created portfolios, PLC ‘publications’
on online network

15. Product Logic

16. Level 1: Data Level 2: Level 3:
Information Knowledge
•Documents •Multimedia resource sites •Resources + Process
•Video and audio •Edited videos •Learning Platform
interviews •Reports •Research-based design
•Career maps •‘Pulled’ •5 ‘ables’ of Web 2.0
•Subject-generated •‘Engaged’
materials
•‘Pushed’

17.  Two Components
• Flexible Learning Platform (FLP)
 Next-generation Performance Support Studio
 Supports adult learning in the context of practice
 Physical, Intellectual, Social, and Emotional Learning
 Advanced Research Engine
• Consulting Services
 Instrument development (FLP guts)
 Educational products (workshops, books, media)
 Localized Cognitive Systems Design Solutions

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Interior Metacognition
Self-Reflection
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Self-Monitoring Metamemory Strategy Selection Imagination
Exterior Metacognition
Theory of Mind Role-Taking Persuasion Historiography Creativity

20. Challenge Outline
Initial Thoughts
Perspectives and Resources
Revisit and Sharing
The Legacy Cycle
Learning Activities
Self-Reflection
Teacher Behavior
Student Behavior
Student Thinking
Suggestions for Improvement
Video-based Reflection

22.  Allows organizations to strategically plan
skill development cycles in practice

23.  Design Thinking in Society
Professional
Learning
Community
Critical Friends Critical Friends
Groups Groups
Studio Spaces Studio Spaces

24.  Monthly subscriptions/hosting
 Localized installations
 Configuration management
 Workshops/consulting for optimization
 Coaching support software
 Corporate-sponsored tool development
 Advertising revenues

25.  Limitations:
• Market is massive, but populated with heavy-
hitters and seasoned veterans
 Potential solution: Co-opetition and cross-marketing
 Plug-ins for existing CMS tools (e.g. Instructure), B2B sales
• Requires corporate-level buy-in
 Potential solution: Listening to clients, thin-software
• Localization challenges
 Potential solution: Process and data analysis,
contextual research, literature reviews, SME interviews