janine warner, disruptive design: trends in online education at wsa-mobile global congress

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1. Online learning is serious business

In its first three years, coursera reached 10 million students around the world and raised $85 million in venture capital. In 2013, they started selling verified certificates for $49. They sold nearly $5 million worth in the first year.

Lynda.com was started

by Lynda Weinman with

$20,000 of her own

money.

10 years later, the

company reached $10

Million in revenue and

she accepted

investment for the first

time.

Lynda used some of the investment to acquire her largest International competitor, Video2Brain, and expand to provide training in multiple languages.

But if you don’t know what you need to learn, it’s easy to get lost at Lynda.com where there are 25,000+ web design videos>

Which is why there is room in the market for new sites like SkillCrush

SkillCrush runs Bootcamps with lots of support for students

SkillCrush was founded by Adda Birnir and is growing fast.

CreativeLive offers courses

in front of a live studio

audience with live

streaming video and chat

rooms on the web.

They have a “freemium”

model. While courses are

being broadcast, they are

free. If you want to watch

them on demand, you have

to purchase them.

Instructors

(like me),

teach multi-

day seminars

from 9 a.m. to

4 p.m. every

day and

answer

questions

from the

studio

audience as

well as the

online

audience.

CreativeLive attracts students from all over the world. This is the live map in the lobby.

2. Online learning is

getting more interactive

Code Academy offers interactive lessons in HTML and programming. You can get immediate feedback as you type.

2014 European Youth Award Winner

Mosiak also provides realtime interactivity as students learn programming

Expect more interactive thanks to new technologies like Osmo

Osmo uses the camera on the iPad to “see” real world objects

As you move objects, Osmo gives feedback on the iPad

Bird Up! also works by using the camera in the iPad

Augmented Reality is also making learning more interactive

The WSA recognized the French company, Jumieges 3D for their app

Many companies are now creating augmented reality apps for the educational market

3. Wearables offer new

opportunities in interactive learning

4. Human interaction still matters

Emotional Presence

In face-to-face (F2F) classes, teachers can detect emotional cues

like smiling, making eye contact, and demonstrating interest.

I was invited to speak at a Hackathon in Argentina, but they couldn’t bring me there in person

Instead of doing a standard “webinar,” I combined live video conferencing with pre-recorded videos

I prepared 4 videos from a recent speech that were 5 minutes each. While the audience watched each video, I took questions via Twitter.

I also got the organizers to set up iPads with Facetime so I could “see” the audience.

It was a little complicated to

manage and required multiple

computers and iPads, but it

was far more engaging than

most webinars.

Last year, I created an online course (a MOOC) with the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas with the University of Texas. We attracted more than 5,000 students, and now I’m working on an

advanced course. Both courses are in Spanish.

In addition to pre-recorded videos and other course materials for the MOOC, we’re also doing weekly Google Hangouts

I’ve recently become

interested in the “virtual

humans” created at USC.

I’m exploring how to use

them in online training.

My new ‘friends’ are

helping counselors

and medical advisors

learn how to help real

humans better.

5. Anyone can create online learning

for the web and mobile devices

Get a good webcam and the best microphone you can afford and

you’re ready to record.

The most popular video recording and editing tools for online training are: Screenflow (for Mac) and Camtasia (for Windows)

Anyone can publish their own courses on sites like Udemy

Or use a tool like Patience.io to publish courses on your own site.

Join the online learning revolution!

Janine Warner @janinewarner

www.JCWarner.com

[email protected]