PROLEARN Vision Statements for Technology-enhanced Professional Learning

1. European Experts’ Symposium of Future and Emerging Issues in Technology Enhanced Professional Learning (TEPL) PROLEARN Vision Statements for Technology-enhanced Professional Learning Vana Kamtsiou, NCSR “Demokritos”vana@dat.demokritos.grAthens, 19 & 20 December 2005

2. What is a roadmap? • A Roadmap is not a tool for predicting the future • A Roadmap is a time-based plan that defines • where we are (state of the art) • where we want to go (vision statements) • how to get there (action plan) • A Roadmap is a learning process for the interested community

3. Components of the PROLEARN roadmap How to get there? Where we want to go? Vision: tacit idea representing the desired future state Expressed future state: instantiation of the vision in a formal and systematic way (vision statements = challenges) Gap analysis: between the current state of the art and desired future state (critical capabilities needed to implement one or more vision statements) Actions: a portfolio of short-, mid- and long-term actions and recommendations, based on the gap analysis

4. Desiredfuture “finding the currents that lead you where you want to go” (proactive), instead of “floating in the currents you are presently in” (reactive) Everyone tries to formulate their own desired future, as a result of this no one will have the desired future, and the reality will focus on negotiation, ongoing interplay that will actually form the future.

5. Prolearn Roadmapping – Future state Definition Collaborative knowledge building (a spiralling process from individual views to collective knowledge) • Raising awareness, express concepts and ideas (Scenarios, desktop research, online surveys, brainstorming sessions) • Presentation of the resulted knowledge at Conzilla browser • Analysis (Concepts definition, Trends and factors analysis, analysis of relationships conceptual modeling tools) • Creating dialogues, synthesize and combine knowledge (symposium, interviews with companies, forums and virtual communities)

6. Major Trends entity Tomorrow Today • Producers Market • Consumers • Standardized • In-house • Customized • Outsourced Product and services • Horizontal project based interdisciplinary teams • Vertical position-based hierarchy Company structures • Self –employed • Interest & motives • Aging • Employees • National identities • Young People • More independence • More responsibility • Close supervision Employees

7. Major Trends Today entity Tomorrow • Simpler • Slowly changing • More complex • Faster changing Skills Work patterns • Parallel (24/7/365) • Serial (8 hours) • Customer perceived values • Value nets • Low capital costs • Value chains Business processes Companies • Provision of services • Production of goods

8. Powerful trends Work Longer Globalization …make us… Work harder Competition Travel more Labor shortage Learn faster Work complexity • eLearning market trend: towards a commodity market and commercialization of learning

9. Core vision of TEPL in 2015 • “Support knowledge workers with technology-enhanced learning • by promoting motivation, performance, collaboration, innovation • and commitment to lifelong learning.” • A knowledge worker is someone who: • doesn’t just consume knowledge but who is able to create it • reflects critically on every level of activity in the organization and contributes back.

10. The 6 Vision statements: Information society challenge 1 Everyone should be able to learn anything at anytime at anyplace Industry challenges Learning as a means to support and enhance work performance 2 Promote innovation and creativity (entrepreneurship) versus task and business process oriented learning 3 Learner perspective Learning as a means to increase employability (flexibility and survivability of employees) 4 Professional e-learning will be a commodity market in 2015 Market take up 5 Democratize the provision and use of knowledge in order to provide equal opportunities for high quality learning to all 6 Social inclusion Prolearn

11. Vision statement I: Information Society“Everyone should be able to learn anything at anytime at anyplace.” Challenges & Goals Right Content at the right time for the right person • Supporting Factors • Freedom to select and manage ones own learning • Creation big variety of choices • Recent advances in Technologies can support and facilitate • Ubiquity • Mobility • Ambient • Creation, storage, management, access at anytime anyplace • Knowledge brokers • Open content exchanges • Market pull

12. Vision statement II: Industry challenges“Learning as a means to support and enhance work performance.” • Challenges & Goals • Support: • Performance Improvements • Business process re-engineering • Shift towards performance driven processes • Link business processes to learning processes • Competencies development • Supporting Factors • Realistic Training • Work-based learning activities • Environments • Processes • Performance standards • Performance indicators • Assessment of: • Qualifications • Performance • Open Networking infrastructures • Supporting Factors • Convergence of: • Knowledge Management • Learning Management • Business Processes • Communities of Practice • Customize • Content • Learning services • Individual learning strategies tied to performance and compensation

13. Vision statement III: Industry challengesPromote innovation and creativity (entrepreneurship) versus task- and business process-oriented learning.” • Challenges & Goals • Goal oriented Changes at strategic level • Develop meta-competences • Human Capital Growth • Promote entrepreneurship • Cultivate and externalize tacit knowledge • Encourage Knowledge sharing • Thinking out of the box • Creativity • Asking the right questions • Leadership • Supporting Factors • Increased responsibilities & independence • Fast Recovery Mechanisms • New organizational structures • New roles for HR managers • New rewarding schemes • New learning methodologies • Balance between structured and unstructured learning • Supporting Factors • Value nets • Intelligent Agents • Knowledge networks • Gaming and Simulations

14. Vision statement IV: Personal development“Learning as a means to increase employability.” Goals • Challenges & Goals • Resilience • Employability • Personal Growth Situated Business Needs Should support tension Professional Personal Should support • Supporting Factors • Personalization • Adaptivity • Non-traditional methods • Counseling services • Carrier planning

15. Vision statement V: Market take-up“Professional e-learning will be a commodity market in 2015.” Challenges & Goals Market transparency Consumer driven market One-stop-shopping Wider choices at all levels Selection optimization • Content • Providers • Means of access • Price levels • Supporting Factors • Consumer – centric portals • Aggregating/syndication • Supply • Demand • Matching services • Supporting Factors • Broken up silos • Open Content Exchanges • New business models • New strategic partnerships

16. Vision statement VI: Social challenges“High quality learning at the workplace for all.” Challenges & Goals Democratize Knowledge Provision and use eInclusion – Equal Opportunities for all “An Information society for all” Bridging the “Knowledge divide” • Supporting Factors • Reshaping of: • Knowledge Centers • Economics of publishing • Knowledge roles • Strategic Partnerships • Supporting Factors • Multitude of choices • Mew accreditation structures for skills and knowledge • Learning networks of universities and industries

17. Are those visions worth trying for? Will those visions be realised? • Too early to tell!...

18. What is missing from the Prolearn visions?Which you would subscribe to?