One of the more respected analysts tracking the Enterprise Learning market published a report indicating the Learning Management System market is a $1.8 B market that is rapidly changing as the needs for corporate education/training change and as SaaS platforms applications are replacing “heavy metal” all-in-one packages; the article is here.
What caught my eye for PSA was this graphic on the need for Continuous Education and the potential tools to accomplish the end .
Press release link for Bersin
They only want $2K for the full report… PSA can offer comparable? for significantly less. Read On. =^)
Because learning, today, is best understood as involving very similar methods despite dramatically different contexts, new methods will involve a pastiche of whatever works from any “learning context” one can find. As the graphic says: For the “Unknown Learning Needs of Tomorrow”.
In such a “wide open” restructuring, one looks for concepts that can be applied across the map of this new learning landscape. That is where a term such as Defined Learning Experience (DLE) comes in…we can get out of the former boxes by saying: in this new structure, what is the fundamental unit of learning?
One starts with the fundamental concepts, which can then be applied in whatever context one is “in” whether enterprise or school system.
So what do we call the learning experience. Not a class, or a session or a training, but a universal term such as DLE. (“Defined, because people learn without structure too, and this learning experience has been defined and structured.)
What do we call the way people support the learning of the group, and the group supports the learning of the individual? Social Learning Construct. (SLC)
What do we call the way a DLE works to optimally and continuously match a learner’s individuality? A Dynamic Learning Plan (DLP)
At this point, PSA has fairly developed concepts behind the acronyms. We are working on our report though… and this elaboration is hampered by various life contingencies that mortals are prone to. When released however , will change everything. Or at least be apropos. =^)
While our particular choice of acronyms may not win out in the acronym adoption race, the concepts behind them will be central to any “learning model of tomorrow”.