Wayne Hodgins
Strategic Futurist
Director
Worldwide Learning Strategies
Autodesk Inc.
President & Co-Founder
Learnativity.org
Chair,
IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee
Learning Object Metadata
Past President
Strategic Advisor
Computer Education
Managers Association
The Future of Learning Objects
The next BIG thing is getting really SMALL!
New Media Consortium
Online Conference on Learning Objects
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What if…..
the impossible isn’t ……
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SMA
Getting
meLearning!
Part I
LL
The Vision
– Markets of one: Billions of Markets
Personalized Learning Experiences for every person
every day
– all 6.2 billion of us -- every day!!
Just for me and just right:
– Time, place, amount, device, medium, way…
– On demand, adaptive
Learning in ALL forms:
– Formal AND informal
– not just online, on computer, on screen
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Transforming vision into reality
The dream isn’t new
That it is now possible IS new to most!!
What would it mean if this IS possible ?!!
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Vision Matters
If we don’t turn back now,
we just might get
where we are going!
- Old American Indian saying
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Getting
SMAL
L
Part II
Small Components
The next BIG thing is getting really small
• VERY small standard components
• Dynamically assembled into “just the right” solutions
“standardized uniqueness”
Applies to Code, content, competencies, equipment, …….
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Content Object Model
Common Content
Application Specific Profiles
“Raw” Information
Data &
Objects
Media
Elements
Audio
Text
illustration
Animation
Procedure
Principle
Concept
Process
Fact
Overview
Summary
Simulation
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©2001 Learnativity
Content Object Model
Common Content
Application Specific Profiles
“Raw” Information
Data &
Objects
Media
Elements
Application
Objects
(Learning Object,
Support, Reference,
Marketing)
Audio
Text
illustration
Animation
Procedure
Principle
Concept
Process
Process
Procedure
Principle
Objective
Concept
Summary
Fact
Overview
Overview
Fact
Summary
Simulation
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Enabling
Objective
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©2001 Learnativity
Content Object Model
Common Content
Application Specific Profiles
“Raw” Information
Data &
Objects
Media
Elements
Application
Objects
Aggregate
Assemblies
(Learning Object,
Support, Reference,
Marketing)
(Lessons,
Support
Solutions, etc)
Collections
(Courses, Stories,)
Audio
Text
illustration
Animation
Procedure
Principle
Concept
Process
Process
Procedure
Principle
ObjectiveConcept
Summary
Fact
Overview
Overview
Objective
Theme
Fact
Summary
Simulation
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Enabling
Objective
Terminal
Objective
October 14, 2003
©2001 Learnativity
Content Object Model
Common Content
Application Specific Profiles
“Raw” Information
Data &
Objects
Media
Elements
Application
Objects
Aggregate
Assemblies
(Learning Object,
Support, Reference,
Marketing)
(Lessons,
Support
Solutions, etc)
Collections
(Courses, Stories,)
Audio
Text
illustration
Animation
Procedure
Principle
Concept
Process
Process
Procedure
Principle
ObjectiveConcept
Summary
Fact
Overview
Overview
Objective
Theme
Fact
Summary
Simulation
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Enabling
Objective
Terminal
Objective
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©2001 Learnativity
Getting
SMAL
L
Liquidity
Tipping point:
• Change of “state” from SOLID to LIQUID
• Personalized “molds” creating unique “solid” solutions
• Which only exist while used and then “melt” back into
liquid
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Never confuse
Never confuse a clear
view of the future,
for a short distance!
-- Paul Saffo
What’s in the way?
Changing our Monolithic Mass
Production practices and thinking
Courage to go for
“Constructive Destruction”
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Commitment to change:
Mass Production
Mass
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Customization
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“Constructive Destruction”
Tearing down the old to re-create the new:
Filing and storage systems
Categorization
Documents and Files
Software products
Courses, Lessons
Testing & Certification
Etc., etc., etc.
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Get over it: Get on with it!
It’s going to be Messy
Plan for “Permanent Whitewater”
Are your expectations lagging CURRENT
possibilities?
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What if…..
the impossible isn’t ………
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Thank
You!!
More information and resources at:
www.Learnativity.org
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