How the digital workspace will revolutionise learning

Nigel Paine, Managing Director, NigelPaine.com

In this thought-provoking closing address, Nigel Paine, former Head of People Development at the BBC looks at how the e-learning model of the past decade is dissolving before our eyes. The first wave of e-learning was based on a centralised model: people created content; it was allocated as a curriculum, and tracked and monitored by a central learning and development department.

Even if that was not what actually happened, it was the aspiration: a digital analogy of the traditional physical training world. In this world, the user accessed learning through a proscribed set of discrete, closed learning tools, each with its own aim. Basically the learner did what he or she was told. But the digital workspace changes all that.

Source: Learning Technologies Conference, January 2008