changing the way project managers learn
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CHANGING THE WAY PMS LEARN
PLEs, MOOCs & Social learning
The rise of personal
learning
Learning vehicles
• MOOCs
• Lessons learned
• Coaching & mentoring
• Social learning
Challenges• Name | Louise Worsley
• Web | www.pi3.co.za
• Email | [email protected]
What have
you learned
most from?
Project experiences
Peer or manager
Coach or mentor
A course
70
20
10
experienceon-the-jobreflect performance support
informal Experiential
Formal
Social
managers
stretch targets
collaboration
conversationcoaching
peer-to-peer sharing
exposure
trainingblended learning
elearningeducation
Learner-centred
Guide-on-the-side
Course-centred
Sage-on-the-stage
ParticipationAcquisition
Learner-centred
Guide-on-the-side
Course-centred
Sage-on-the-stage
ParticipationAcquisition
The rise of
personal
learning
Coursera
Udemy
FutureLearn
LinkedIn Learning
YouTube
Top MOOCs
Source: http://www.onlinecoursereport.com/the-50-most-popular-moocs-of-all-time/
Top MOOCs
Source: http://www.onlinecoursereport.com/the-50-most-popular-moocs-of-all-time/
Top MOOCs
Source: http://www.onlinecoursereport.com/the-50-most-popular-moocs-of-all-time/
Local is
lekker!
How do I start?
Motivation &
skills?
How do I choose?
Learning aggregators
Learning recommenders
Life-long learning
platforms
How do I start?
How do I choose?
Learning aggregators
Learning recommenders
Life-long learning
platforms
Find aggregators & filterers
Find interesting people
Be curious
Seek
Publish, comment, participate
Find those who share your
passions Share
Sense
Challenge
Construct
Evaluate
Internalise
Lessons
learned
Seek
Sense
Share
Mentoring• expertise & advice
Coaching• facilitation &
personal support
I store my
knowledge in
my friends
I store my
knowledge in
my friends
https://www.slideshare.net/PiCubed/the-linkedin-effect-a-new-way-of-learning-ou-conference-presentation
Stage 2: Survey results
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Maintaining/growing professionalrelationships
Creating professional relationships
Seeking information on practices in othergroups
Promoting myself
Seeking answers to specific work-relatedquestions
Promoting my work/company
LinkedIn: What I find helpful
40% reported “Seeking information on practices in other groups” as very helpful
Stage 3: Project management communities
Over 700 PM related groups on LinkedIn
¹Generic PM groups selected on basis of membership numbers
- 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 600,000 700,000
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Membership of top 10 PM groups¹
Demographics?
Data extracted 14/11/14 Rechecked on 14/1/15
Activity?
Quality?
Examples of conversations that generate engagement
• Sales & promotional• Recruitment• Personal & personal promotion• Seeking advice / information• Provoke debate
Conversation Category Comments Likes
Describe Project Management in three words! Provoke debate 4004 457
Is PMP overvalued? Provoke debate 1035 118
What is your most favorite project management document? Provoke debate 892 180
How do you manage multitasking? What tips do you have for others?
Seeking advice /information 510 98
What is your favorite motivational quote? Provoke debate 332 19
What are the components of "project context"?Seeking advice /information 128 34
Should a project Charter have the acceptance criteria?
Seeking advice /information 94 19
What are
professional
bodies doing?• Learning on the job• Peer guidance & discussion• Work shadowing• Structured reading• Presentations to colleagues• Reading blogs• Sharing knowledge and
experience with others
What are
professional
bodies doing?
“1 hour of learning = 1 PDU”
35 hours:25 hours – Education: Giving back
Unintentional, Informal
Intentional, Informal
Intentional,
formal
Teacher driven
Structured learning
Learner driven
‘Serendipitous’ learning
The drive to
personal
learning
What are you
doing?
Experiences
matter
Supply-push
To Demand-pull
Mash-up your
learning
approaches
Be ‘social’
Use your
network
Changing the
way we learn
https://za.linkedin.com/in/picubed
@worsley_louise
• Name | Louise Worsley
• Web | www.pi3.co.za
• Email | [email protected]
Thank you
https://knowledgelover.com/best-mooc-massive-open-online-course-providers-list/
edX https://edx.org/
Owned by MIT & Harvard University. It’s one of the largest provider of MOOC education internationally. Topics include biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, finance, electronics, engineering, food and nutrition, history, humanities, law, literature, maths, medicine, music, philosophy, physics, science, statistics and more.
NovoEd https://novoed.com/Founded by Stanford University professor Amin Saberi and PhD student Farnaz Ronaghi. Unlike any other MOOC provider, here students can collaborate in small teams with students around the world and submit assignments.
Udacity https://udacity.com/Offers proprietary “Nanodegree” programs for learning technology skills that matter by doing projects employers value, without leaving your current job.
Udemy https://udemy.com/Mostly known for their collection of paid courses but they have many great courses available for free, such as: Build Your First Website in 1 Week with HTML5 and CSS3 & Become an iOS Developer from Scratch Read more at: https://knowledgelover.com/best-mooc-massive-open-online-course-providers-list/
Coursera https://coursera.org/The most popular provider of massive open online courses globally. Coursera has more than 10 million users in 890 courses from 117 institutions.
Harvard Open Courses
http://extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative
Under Open Learning Initiative (OLI), Harvard has launched a plethora of free courses to everyone around the world. Topics covered such as art, humanities, museum studies, business studies, management, computer science, engineering, mathematics languages, journalism, literature, speech, writing, pre-medical studies, science, environmental studies, social sciences and study skills.
MIT OpenCourseware http://ocw.mit.edu/Large scale on-line publication of MIT course materials. It includes many free courses available to anyone, anywhere.
Khan Academyhttps://khanacademy.org/
Learning from their micro lectures and practice exercise is quite engaging. Their motto is “A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere”.
Top 8: January 2015
Online course providers
1. Class Central – A simple site lists everything in a large organized table, sorted by basic parameters such as future courses, just announced, starting soon, and self paced.
2. MOOC-List – A site which lists down all the offerings from specific providers. 3. RedHoop – It lets you search and filter results based on pricing, duration, level,
certificates, group, provider and your recent activity. This website works well, —among the best.
4. CourseBuffet – Manages all content by ratings, popularity, subject area, university offering the class, and more. It aggregates small providers too.
5. Knoloop – “Your portal to discover, review and follow thousands of online learning materials in any subject.” You can see rating and reviews given by other users before starting the learning.
6. Coursetalk – A well-organized website with thousands of courses from more than 30 subjects to choose from.
7. Degreed – A free service that tracks and scores all of your education — from books and MOOCs to formal college degrees.
8. Tube Course – Powerful tool to find any course and filter based on source, published date, course length, quality, difficulty level or language. Currently supports Youtube, Udemy, Coursera and Udacity. https://knowledgelover.com/best-mooc-aggregators-for-free-online-courses/
9. Online course report : http://www.onlinecoursereport.com/about/
MOOC aggregators & recommenders
https://degreed.com/for-me
Degreed: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2490622,00.asp, Https://degreed.com/for-me
Schoology: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2490580,00.asp
Apple iTunes U (now Apple Podcasts)http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2490649,00.asp
Moodle LMS: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2486973,00.asp
Smarter U http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2486976,00.asp
Tracking learning: PLEs