Learning Formats 2020
It happened today, the presentation for which I solicited inputs through the post What Learning Formats do you think will exist in 2020?.
To begin with, a big thank you to all the contributors – Cammy Bean, Janet Clarey, Donald Clark, Stephen Downes, Tom Haskins, Harold Jarche, Rohan Kohli, Anil Mammen, Manish Mohan, Cathy Moore, Nadine, Clark Quinn, Karyn Romeis, and Clive Shepherd. Great inputs and insight from each one of you. I truly believe in crowd-sourcing now – nothing like a personal experience to convince you, eh?
Now to the presentation itself. Attendance was sparse and most of the attendees were middle and lower management, as against what I was told earlier – mostly CxOs. So while I couldn’t change the slides, I moderated my explanations and changed some of my examples.
I touched on four aspects in the 30-minute presentation. A broad definition of learning, the profile of the learner in 2020, what they need to learn, how they will learn, what learning formats will exist, and what challenges corporates will face with respect to learning in 2020. All this in the context of corporate training (not university or school education).
For the first time in my life, I went completely visual and minimized the text on the slides (thanks to my colleague Medha Bhave for assembling the presentation together). I noticed this freed me up to change my examples and the force of my arguments depending on the nature of the audience and their response. Also, I avoided quoting numbers and research data; just made the statements and quoted research-based evidence where appropriate. Notwithstanding all this, the presentation should be reasonably self-explanatory – take a look here. (Some of the images have been slightly affected when the file moved to Slideshare.)
If you want to download the presentation (pdf format: ~ 6 mb): Learning Formats 2020.
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4 comments:
Great content, good presentation- but you need some photoshop tutorials to make those visuals work!!
Thanks, Phil. And yes, I agree with you on the photoshop tutorial. Whatever exists here was put together by a colleague of mine - else, the presentation would've looked terrible!
Geetha, Good stuff. Thanks for sharing this.
A suggestion - Could you consider adding audio narration to slides? While the content look great it does feel empty on several slides - as all ILT ppts would be when presented without the instructor.
Can't say I loved the presentation that much but I did love the idea of asking the question about the survival of learning formats as also exploring the answers. Perhaps one is missing out a lot of what you would have added through what you said. After all, this PPT is just an aid to your presentation. Good going!
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