Interviews
DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
Alexia Borg and Fanny Berthon had the pleasure of interviewing Denis JAFFRAIN from KENZO PARFUMS, a user of the Kumullus solution.
In this period of unprecedented crisis, it is important to have access to expert analysis. This is why DLM NEWS has chosen to interview François Bocquet, prospectivist and psycho-sociologist of cultural change, author of a “Dictionary of Words in Danger of Disappearing” where he humorously questions the “art of clinging to what no longer exists and disappearing with it“. François Bocquet is also the creator of a training organization dedicated to cultural and individual transformation.
François Bocquet answers our questions.
What are the possible scenarios after containment?
Le ” business as usual
This first scenario is based on a huge Keynesian revival, with a massive injection of liquidity by the central banks (which will later be cancelled out by inflation). One can imagine a kind of successful Marshall Plan on a global scale, with the result that the stock market resumes its normal course and the economy is restored to normal within a year or two. It is even possible to envisage a return to the world of before, only worse. As if this crisis was just a gas pedal of trends. As if COVID-19 could not teach these decidedly incorrigible humans that we are.
The collapse pile-up
In this second scenario, inspired by the Russian-American collapsologist Dimitri Orlov, a chain reaction is set in motion. As in a big-show film or a Wagnerian opera, we witness a global pile-up, at once sanitary, economic, stock market and commercial, with risks of shortages and conflicts over scarce resources. This situation will not fail to trigger a social crisis with a rise in violence, wars and civil wars. In turn, it will provoke local political crises with the appearance of authoritarian or military governments. The ultimate risk is that of a cultural collapse with the loss of our points of reference and our primary prohibitions. Science fiction is then overtaken by reality.
Limited rebound effects
In this third, more optimistic scenario, we can imagine that the economy will be stimulated. The ravages of COVID-19 make it necessary to rebuild a more resilient local economy. New markets are exploding such as health, safety, telework, entertainment, distance education. But also the deployment of local services, the rebuilding of the health system, industrial relocation. Or the deconstruction of megacities in favor of villages, the return to the continuity of pre-industrial settlement. A “creative destruction” in the manner of Schumpeter would be necessary, a bit like after the Second World War when cities had to be rebuilt from the ashes. A W-shaped recovery with hesitations and relapses, illusory, temporary, partial or very localized recoveries, can also be envisaged.
A profound transformation of our societies
In the latter, highly likely scenario, the Coronavirus would reverse the historical trend. After spending half a century in economic globalization coupled with weak political integration, we would move to international governance coupled with a relocation of the economy and society.
What is this crisis likely to call into question?
Daily business travel
The practice of telework will undoubtedly continue in confinement. This is good news for the quality of life. It will be less good for the price of oil and the stock market. Automobile manufacturers and airlines can worry. On the other hand, Amazon or Facebook data centers will be able to rub their hands. Videoconferencing, whether it’s on Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet, is already a must. However, the more these technologies improve and become a habit, the more people will be reduced in favor of information flows.
The end of the super-symbolic economy
The expected containment and long period of deconfinement could deal a fatal blow to the “super-symbolic” economy in favour of a return to the “real” economy. There will undoubtedly be a strong handover of low value-added service professionals during the reconstruction period. That is to say, white collar workers used to office hours, commercial intermediaries, fancy administrations, amateurs of forms, sentence manipulators or draft-breakers. The time for questioning may be coming for a number of intellectual or liberal professions, but also for compulsive and passive users of screens of all kinds. The manipulation of abstract information may no longer be enough to make its social usefulness recognized.
Monetary stability
Monetary stability is also at risk. With the budgetary weapon, there is a risk of outbidding on the use of the banknote printing press and the recourse to “quantitative leasing”, which was used to excess in 2007, in order to plug the crisis. As the monetary economy is increasingly decoupled from the real economy, we should logically and long ago have found ourselves in the grip of mega-inflation, as in Germany in 1923 or in France at the time of the French Revolution. Until now, this corrective inflation has not taken place because it was counterbalanced by two phenomena of imported deflation. On the one hand, delocalization in Asia and on the other hand the productivity gains of the virtual economy. The situation is different this time, because the flow of goods could decrease with industrial relocation policies. This is therefore not good news for savers, who risk indirectly financing the war effort through galloping inflation.
Globalization
With the crisis, globalization is receding. The containment imposed by the Coronavirus prefigures the “refragmentation of the world”. We are seeing a return of national borders. The question of the possible end of the Euro and perhaps of Europe arises. It is also necessary to re-establish physical and digital borders if we want to share the work and give as many people as possible their share. The “old Europe” has the advantage of having already experienced the fragmented world: refragmentation should therefore not be too difficult. The infrastructures are still there and the geography lends itself to it with its small villages, its gardens, its country roads.
Individual liberties
Before containment, the equation of global problems seemed insoluble. The issue of global warming, the collapse of biodiversity, energy depletion and the explosion of complexity had to be faced simultaneously. But the smallest of beings, a small piece of DNA, a million times smaller than a cell, miraculously took on the task of solving everything at once. All problems seem to vanish with the wave of a magic wand (at least in the eyes of public opinion). All problems except one that will continue to grow, unless it is no longer seen as a problem, but as part of the solution. It is the weakening of individual liberties and democracy. It is as if restrictions on freedom are the solution and the price of security.
Are we at the beginning of the collapse?
The advantage of a collapse is that, by definition, it does not linger. So we can quickly roll up our sleeves to rebuild a better world. In other words, we may be less at the beginning of the end than at the end of the beginning.
Moreover, the impact of the current crisis will not necessarily be universal, uniform and lasting. This episode of COVID-19 may be only the prelude to an even greater collapse, to a metamorphosis of our civilization, or to an interweaving of the two. My objection to the global collapse theory is that it is too simplistic. The world has never been so populated, so complex, so contrasted. I don’t see why it should suddenly become simple and easy to understand.
This shock of “simplexity”, or if you prefer, complex simplification, is a wonderful invitation to question ourselves, to ask ourselves why rather than how in depth, to explore new paradigms, to experiment with new behaviors in terms of resilience, autonomy, audacity.
Yes, collapse may be at our doorstep, in all its unpredictable diversity. So the aim is no longer to ring the bell. It is to reinvent the world as a matter of urgency, starting with our own.
What opportunities are open?
Telework
Telework obviously presents a lot of opportunities with the boom in telemedicine, telecommerce, or teletraining. The tele-economy has only just begun. We are going to see the emergence of distance schools, clinics, town halls, police stations, tribunals, distance exhibitions.
Relocation
One can also imagine the reappearance of local shops, village festivals, artisans and local markets. A whole world, which I knew in my early childhood, is perhaps to be rebuilt. In this hypothesis, one of France’s advantages lies in the natural resilience it owes to its history and its many villages. Of the 80,000 European communes, nearly half are small French villages where everything can be done on foot. Pre-1900 urban and regional planning is far better suited to a world without travel than, for example, the cities of North America or the suburban suburbs that Germany has rebuilt on this model.
The debottlenecking of megacities
At the same time, there will be a de-congestion of the megacities and especially the suburbs without a city center.
The Revenge of Matter and Social Life
Other opportunities will arise in light industry relocations, permaculture, local services, and effective human relations. The material and social reality is about to take its revenge.
The Triumph of the Welfare State
The Welfare State will also make its comeback with fanfare. Even in the USA, the need for social protection for all is being realized. The state will redefine strategic industries such as pharmaceuticals, new technologies or renewable energies. We can foresee a return in force of economic interventionism.
The European Universal Income
Already some experts are talking about a project of a “universal European income”, in return, of course, for an honest limitation of freedoms and increased control of citizens. The idea has been gaining ground everywhere for some time. Many other reforms, such as that of pensions, could be annexed. The time is particularly favourable. Welcome to the Best of Worlds!
More security… and less freedom
More security means more welfare state, but also more public spending, more control and monitoring. More corporatism, more borders. It will mean less freedom to move around, to express oneself, to work, to undertake. The disadvantage of beautiful bureaucratic machines is that when the time comes to rebuild, they stifle individual initiative, that is, the creation of new wealth. The short term therefore runs the risk of slowing down the long term. But you can’t win on all fronts at the same time. Security feeds on the loss of freedoms, and vice versa.
The advent of the “Empire”.
Today, the “confinement” in India, Africa, the “South” designates a reality very different from ours. Indeed, there is talk of expelling the poor from the cities, of the explosion of contagion in the countryside with the problems of forced labor and promiscuity. With the absence of a health care system, this confinement risks producing a human bomb that may come back to us in a boomerang effect. We cannot therefore exclude the construction of a “wall” between a confederation of developed countries, which would gather under the banner of an “Empire”. And the other, a “Barbarism”, danger zone, dustbin and sometimes laboratory. This situation would not be without recalling the end of the Roman Empire with legions which were watching at the borders. There will be opportunities in the field of international security.
The emergence of a new narrative
After a century of increasing globalization, we will perhaps idealize the withdrawal to local communities, as in the Middle Ages with castles, monasteries, fortified cities. History loves the pendulum effect. Perhaps we will even see the emergence of a new “religion”. In 380, the Roman Emperor Theodosius, seeing his empire collapsing, had instituted as a state religion, a Christianity that looked very much like a totalitarianism of relocation and charity. We can nowadays imagine a totalitarianism of local ecology, a National Socialism in green shirts. This cultural change could inspire many prophets and poets. Every new civilization needs its legends and songs.
Are we moving towards a two-speed world?
Perhaps we are indeed going to witness the emergence of a two-speed world, where there is only room for “giants” (digital) and “dwarves” (anchored in reality).
This will be an opportunity for digital centers, like Amazon, but also for small local players, like the village baker. On the other hand, the threat will come from medium-sized, cross-functional players, such as small and medium-sized service providers.
On the one hand, we can expect a triumph of the virtual economy with telemedicine, teleshopping, teletraining, tele-entertainment. In this digital economy, the best usually wins the whole bet, as the GAFAMs illustrate perfectly. The digital giants will therefore be the big winners in this episode.
On the other hand, we risk witnessing the revenge of the physical periphery. Small towns and isolated villages will become attractive again. Local shops will redevelop, as will neighborhood and mutual aid networks.
In the past, there were Gallo-Roman villas and abbeys from the Middle Ages.
Society then risks being fragmented into three antagonistic segments like the three vertices of a triangle. On the one hand, the “infocrats” who dominate the world, the resources of outlying territories. On the other hand, a “neo-proletariat” made up of the ex-middle class of vast decapitated suburbs. This last segment risks being a hotbed of violence and revolt against the two previous ones.
A science-fiction scenario could then eventually reveal two types of watertight places: “bubbles” and “camps”, depending on whether you are powerful or miserable.
The “bubbles” could, for example, be the center of capital cities such as Paris, Amsterdam, Switzerland, or Singapore. They could also be underground, on water, under water, in the sky or under the ground of other planets.
Among the “camps”, we can imagine slums in South America, Africa, but also in Europe. They may be neutralized en masse by entertainment, proximity to stadiums and amusement parks. In Rome, the turbulence of the people was neutralized by circus games or gladiator shows.
How is there a risk of fracturing society?
It is likely that several types of polarization will overlap. COVID-19 is likely to exacerbate the inequalities that were already palpable just before.
The powerful and the powerless
On the one hand, there would be the powerful such as the owners of a green property, the owners of their homes, the holders of capital, or the masters of the internet. On the other, there would be the poor, those confined to a studio in the suburbs, tenants unable to pay their rent, or bicycle meal deliverers.
Technophiles and technophobes
The company can also fracture between the over-connected and the disconnected. On the one hand, there are the “technophiles”, virtuosos of distance work, with advanced expertise and a great capacity for self-learning. These technophiles will be transhumanists. They will aspire to become “augmented humans”. They will be characterized by their autonomy, their resilience, and their capacity for mutation. On the other hand, the “techno-logged”: elderly people overwhelmed by technology, passive learners, zombies stuck between Netflix and the pizzas of Deliveroo.
The indispensable and the “useless
This third bill would pit those who manage to keep a real job against those who will be downgraded. On the one hand, the “indispensable”: industrialists, engineers, truck drivers, farmers, shopkeepers, garbage collectors, nurses, doctors, researchers. On the other hand, the great army of the “useless” or more precisely the unused. The confinement of spring 2020 offers us a large-scale demonstration that with only 30% of employees continuing to work, basic needs continue to be met overall. The company can on the whole operate with 70% of its human resources unused.
At the beginning of 2020, a large number of jobs were therefore in a trickle. According to the American sociologist David Graeber, many were “bullshit jobs”, i.e. artificial professions designed to neutralize the anxiety and nuisance power of the middle class by the illusion of social utility.
In Roman antiquity, citizens were neutralized by offering them bread and circus games. We may be entering a world where robots coupled with Artificial Intelligence (AI) will suffice to cover most of our material and even emotional needs. In the “next world”, there may not be enough work for everyone. Technology has multiplied productivity. Relocation has reduced demand.
For the proletariats of the future, there are worse things than the exploitation of workers by capital. The risk now lies in downgrading and uselessness.
What conclusion can be reached?
When a world ends, a world is to be built. And there will always be adventure for those worthy of it.
Many thanks to François Bocquet who shared his pertinent analysis of the current context on our media. An analysis that pushes us to open our eyes and ask ourselves the right questions about our disrupted daily life.
And you, do you have an opinion on the “after” coronavirus? React to this interview with François Bocquet in comments!
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For the second consecutive year, Teach on Mars organized its second Partner Forum on Thursday 28th March in Paris. DLM NEWS was invited as a press media, and had the honour of meeting the key players in Mobile Learning. And to find out in real time about the best mobile training content on the market during the Mobile Learning Awards ceremony.
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Alexia Borg had the pleasure to interview Alexia Gorin from EDUFACTORY.
DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
Alexia Borg had the pleasure to interview Andréa Bourbasquet-Pichard from SPEEXX & Johanna Henry, one of their clients.
DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
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DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
Alexia Borg had the pleasure to interview David Guralnick from KALEIDOSCOPE LEARNING..
DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
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DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
Alexia Borg and Fanny Berthon had the pleasure to interview Michel Lollichon from LYADIS.
DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
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DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
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DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
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DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
Alexia Borg and Fanny Berthon had the pleasure of interviewing Nicolas Horvelin from GOFLUENT.
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Alexia Borg had the pleasure to interview Charlotte Tassel and Raphael Dollat from EDFLEX.
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DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
Alexia Borg had the pleasure to interview Vincent Caltabellotta from YOOMONKEEZ.
DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
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DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
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DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
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DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
Alexia Borg and Fanny Berthon had the pleasure of interviewing Mathias Vincent, Digital and Innovation Director at IFPASS and RISE UP user.
DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
Alexia Borg and Fanny Berthon had the pleasure to interview Alexandre Lect from EDTAKE.
DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
Fanny Berthon had the pleasure to interview Stylianos Antalis from YES’N’YOU.
DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
Alexia Borg and Fanny Berthon had the pleasure to interview Thomas Engler from DRIVATA.
DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
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DLM NEWS was present at Learning Technologies France 2020 which took place on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th February 2020 from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm at the Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles in Paris.
Alexia Borg and Fanny Berthon had the pleasure to interview Ludovic Meacci, Neurotraining Practitioner and Hypnotherapist.
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You may have heard of instructional engineering, Learning Designer, Learning Design, instructional design, etc. To get a better understanding of all these terms, DLM NEWS met Julie Rico, Learning Designer for YES DIGITAL the Digital Learning agency of YES’N’YOU. We interviewed her to find out more about this rapidly growing profession of Digital Learning Designer.
Julie, what is your professional background?
My professional background is what we call atypical… We are precisely in the mad skills you were talking about in your previous article! In short, after obtaining a degree in cultural mediation and communication, I started my professional life in the theater as an actress and playwright. I was very versatile. I went on stage, created plays and took care of communication.
At the age of 27, I decided to resume my studies with a Master’s degree in Business Communication. I started in a communication agency as a project manager. Then I flew to London where I worked in event management. I found more the dynamic side of the live show.
Time passed, and the world of events no longer suited me, so I trained as a pedagogical designer. Today, I love the versatility of this job, I am multi-tasking. I am multi-tasking. I find both writing and project management at the same time. Two subjects that have always animated me.
What is your job as a Learning Designer?
First, let’s talk about context. The job of educational designer took on its full meaning with the arrival of digital technology. In the past, trainers used to create their training courses for the classroom and thus directly animate them. Today, with digital technology, we talk about Digital Learning Designer, to use the English term. We design training courses on both PCs and cell phones, with the expansion of Mobile Learning. The face-to-face training courses are almost systematically accompanied by digital modules to become “Blended Learning”.
The job of Learning Designer (or pedagogical designer in French) requires a keen sense of writing, an ability to adapt and organize. And of course to be creative and on the lookout for novelties.
As a Learning Designer for Yes Digital, I design and produce digital training courses, responding to the challenges of digital learning for each client. Each time, I write the project specifications, then the global and detailed scenario of each training sequence. Then, I integrate it into an adapted platform such as LMS before deploying the system, and finally evaluate it.
By participating in the Mobile Learning Meeting organized by ildi, what did you learn?
This event was placed under the sign of interactivity. Organized by Philippe Lacroix and Philippe Gil, founders of the independent consulting firm ILDI specialized in training strategy consulting, it was Mobile Learning oriented.
Among other things, I retained an evocative figure “80% of Internet traffic is done on the phone”. This figure shows that this sector is in perpetual evolution and that the possibilities seem infinite!
The format of the conferences held during the day of October 10 was in total adequacy with the theme. We were in the classroom, but thanks to the Wooclap tool we had a pedagogical animation that allowed us to interact in real time with the speakers. Presented in the form of a battle, we could vote for each of the short client cases present.
Participating in this type of event is an integral part of any business. No matter the field, permanent monitoring is always interesting. It allows us to be a force of proposal towards our customers, and to guide them in an optimal way. Because yes, we always recommend better something that we have tested.
What new technologies are in vogue?
The relaxed atmosphere, like the training, allowed me to better discover what is currently being done on the market. My favorites of the day were Beedeez, InTeach, and Seekoya..
The next trend in mobile seems to be centered on participatory and user-generated content video technologies that bring connection and interaction. We are also seeing more and more authoring tools that emphasize the community and social side.
YES’N’YOU is in full development, it is therefore important to be at the top of the solutions that exist to meet customer demands in an optimal way. And that’s good, since some nice things are already there and others are coming!
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For the second consecutive year, Teach on Mars organized its second Partner Forum on Thursday 28th March in Paris. DLM NEWS was invited as a press media, and had the honour of meeting the key players in Mobile Learning. And to find out in real time about the best mobile training content on the market during the Mobile Learning Awards ceremony.
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On the occasion of the Partner Forum which took place on March 28, 2019, DLM NEWS met its organizer Vincent Desnot, CEO & Co-founder of Teach on Mars..
Teach on Mars helps employees in companies to progress in their skills by providing them with a kind of personal training assistant. A coach who delivers Micro Learning programs and training resources to them at the right time, wherever they are.
The training software publisher managed by Vincent Desnot now has 60 employees, who support a hundred or so key accounts in their digital training strategy.
In this interview, Vincent Desnot explains their objectives, presents the Partner Forum event and the Mobile Learning Awards, a unique awards ceremony in Europe.
On January 30 and 31, the Learning Technologies 2019 trade show took place. DLM News, in partnership with BFM Business, welcomed Frédérick Benichou, co-founder of Coorpacademy, to their stand. Focus on the program “La vision des experts”.
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On January 30 and 31, the Learning Technologies 2019 trade show took place. DLM News, in partnership with BFM Business, welcomed Laurent Balagué, CEO of ForMetris, to their stand. Zoom on the show “Flash Talk”. The European leader in training evaluation. ForMetris supports training teams in measuring, improving the quality and efficiency of their training.
On January 30 and 31, the Learning Technologies 2019 trade show took place. DLM News in partnership with BFM Business welcomed Michel Lollichon, CEO at Lyadis. Focus on the program “Business Tech-RH”.
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On January 30 and 31, the Learning Technologies 2019 trade show took place. DLM News in partnership with BFM Business welcomed Olivier Trupiano, founder of Signalement net, to their stand. Zoom on the “Flash Talk” program.
On the program : The Sapin 2 law, a law for transparency, the fight against corruption, the modernization of economic life. It is a comprehensive law, an ethical alert system that secures the confidentiality of internal or external employee alerters. Signalement net enables companies to use this system in compliance with the French law on the protection of privacy and the protection of personal data, and to allow employees to report information such as harassment, fraud, discrimination, etc.
On January 30 and 31, the Learning Technologies 2019 trade show took place. DLM News, in partnership with BFM Business, welcomed Valéry Nguyen, General Manager of Learning Tribes., to their booth. Focus on the program “The experts’ vision”.
Pedagogical innovation at the service of business transformation is at the heart of Learning Tribes’ DNA. The idea is to transform the learning experience by developing learner engagement. To achieve this, Learning Tribes has created: Triboo, a Learning Experience Plateform that allows us to push content to learners according to their aspirations and needs. We will also talk about adaptive learning, the goal being to individualize training paths.
On January 30 and 31, the Learning Technologies 2019 trade show took place. DLM News, in partnership with BFM Business, welcomed Kévin Tillier, co-founder of MySkillCamp, to their booth. Focus on the program “Business Tech-RH”.
MySkillCamp is a platform that centralizes and federates Digital Learning applications. To date, it has 25,000 online training courses and 64,000 users. It allows the interconnection of e-learning tools to have a single training portal for each learner.
On January 30 and 31, the Learning Technologies 2019 trade show took place. DLM News, in partnership with BFM Business, received Vincent Caltabellotta, CEO of Yoomonkeez, on their stage. Focus on the “Business Tech-RH” program.
Yoomonkeez brings a micro-learning solution, more precisely a training with a coaching spirit. The idea is to make the learner evolve via a daily stimulation by sms which contains a link to download with intelligent content (a video, a webinar, a tip, a tool…) Yoomonkeez invents the keys of digital to make the human being evolve.
On January 30 and 31, the Learning Technologies 2019 trade show took place. DLM News in partnership with BFM Business received on their stage William Peres, CEO of Serious Factory. Focus on the “Business Tech-RH” program.
On the program: the democratization of immersive learning. The idea of Serious Factory is to give everyone the opportunity to transmit their skills through tools and experiences such as the Serious Game. For that purpose, Serious Factory has set up a tool: Virtual Training Suite, a software suite which allows to design in a few clicks realistic simulations, concrete practice of sales relations but also for the recruitment process of HR, or in the field of medicine in front of a patient!
On January 30 and 31, the Learning Technologies 2019 trade show took place. DLM News, in partnership with BFM Business, hosted Guillaume de Maison Rouge, Chief Revenue Officer of Kumullus, on their TV set. Focus on the program “La Vision des Experts”.
Our first guest talks to us about a very original subject: augmented video!
Le 30 et 31 janvier s’est déroulé le Salon Learning Technologies 2019. DLM News en partenariat avec BFM Business recevait sur leur plateau TV, Yves Grandmontagne, PDG de Le Lab RH. Zoom sur l’émission “Flash talk”.
On January 30 and 31, the Learning Technologies 2019 trade show took place. DLM News in partnership with BFM Business received on their TV set, Thomas Vianney, salon Learning Technologies France.. Zoom on the “Flash talk” program.
On January 30 and 31, the Learning Technologies 2019 trade show took place. DLM News in partnership with BFM Business received on their TV set, Lorenzo Pancino, founder of Learnybox. Zoom on the “Flash talk” program.
On January 30 and 31, the Learning Technologies 2019 trade show took place. DLM News in partnership with BFM Business received on their TV set, Jérôme Bruet, Vice President at Talent Soft. Zoom on the show “Flash talk”.
On January 30 and 31, the Learning Technologies 2019 trade show took place. DLM News in partnership with BFM Business welcomed Stéphane Propose, Training & Development at Domino’s Pizza. Zoom on the “Flash talk” program.
On January 30 and 31, the Learning Technologies 2019 trade show took place. DLM News in partnership with BFM Business received on their TV set, Élodie Primo, CEO at MindOnSite. Zoom on the “Flash Talk” show. On the program: what is the extended enterprise and who is the training for?
On January 30 and 31, the Learning Technologies 2019 trade show took place. DLM News, in partnership with BFM Business, welcomed Clément Meslin, co-founder of My Mooc, to their booth. Focus on the program “La vision des experts”.
My Mooc has two objectives: to accompany everyone on the web looking for a mooc (free and certified online training). It is the “tripadvisor” of the MOOC and accompany companies, via a “Learning Curation platform” that recommends the best online sources.
On January 30 and 31, the Learning Technologies 2019 trade show took place. DLM News, in partnership with BFM Business, welcomed Adeline Virlogeux, ENI‘s Sales Director, to their stand. Zoom on the “Flash Talk” program. ENI, has created an e-learning training course available in 5 languages that allows for hands-on training in applications. It is a unique pedagogy based on 4 steps: the lesson, the exercise, the analysis of the result and the solution. This training allows a real increase in competence. The objective is to develop the working methods of the collaborators.
You have probably heard about the blockchain… Rather well known in the banking industry, this term is gradually being used in other sectors of activity, especially Digital Learning! We chose to interview Elodie PRIMO, CEO of MOS-MindOnSite to share her vision of the blockchain as a new technology for Digital Learning.
Elodie, explain to us what is the blockchain?
In a simple way, the blockchain is a database similar to a ledger, where each transaction is recorded in an encrypted, non-forgeable, perennial and decentralized way. There is no central authority that manages this network. Each user has a traceability of his information in a secure way and at a lower cost.
The blockchain is known especially in the banking world
Yes, it’s a term that mainly marked the beginning of the year 2016, but this technology existed long before. The first institutions to have invested in blockchain projects were banks, out of financial interest. One of the first cryptomoney companies called Bitcoin uses blockchain operation. It is a decentralized digital currency that works with software and a set of rules that allow users to issue Bitcoins and manage transactions collectively and automatically.
Can the blockchain be at the service of digital learning?
I think it can! Some Digital Learning players are already using it. The blockchain can be used for training and certification. The future is tending towards the delivery of digital badges to students via LMS platforms. This type of program that automatically executes conditions is called “smart contracts” in French. Then, this diploma will be more easily shareable on professional social networks (Viadeo or LinkedIn for example).
What is the advantage of blockchain technology?
What appeals to players in Digital Learning and other business sectors is the decentralization of data, security and transparency. At MOS-MindOnSite, we see new perspectives in this blockchain technology, for example for personalized learning…
What do you think of blockchain technology?
It is not only employees’ private life behaviors that have been impacted and modified by the digital transformation. HR functions also need to reinvent themselves to digitalize their HR tools, and above all to support the change within their company.
Alexia BORG, CEO of Atoms Advisor spoke about the digital transformation within HR functions, on the set of La Tribune, during the program Paroles d’experts.
Comment doit s’appréhender la transformation digitale ?
“Dans transformation digitale, il y a d’abord transformation”, précise Alexia Borg. En effet, avant même de penser à digitaliser leurs outils, les DRH doivent d’abord penser à accompagner leurs collaborateurs dans le changement. Qu’il soit culturel, managérial ou organisationnel, le changement est induit par la digitalisation des entreprises.
C’est ensuite que les DRH devront penser à automatiser voire dématérialiser leurs processus RH, grâce à de nouveaux outils comme les SIRH, les réseaux sociaux d’entreprise, le e-learning, les MOOC, les serious game, etc. Ils doivent redoubler de créativité, pour s’adapter au nomadisme des salariés, qui modifie aujourd’hui la façon d’apprendre.
Transformation digitale : la France en retard…
La France est encore loin en matière de digitalisation des ressources humaines. Derrière l’Inde par exemple qui compte 55% des entreprises équipées en LMS (Learning Management Systems).
Pourtant, de nouveaux métiers apparaissent dans le paysage professionnel. Tel que le Talent Acquisition Manager, ou encore le Digital Learning Manager. Des salariés donc, qui ont besoin d’être formés à ces nouveaux enjeux.
« Il faut challenger ses équipes pour se réinventer, et donc se former à avoir plusieurs casquettes » précise Alexia BORG.
Les entreprises françaises doivent alors augmenter leur compétitivité. Et réduire l’écart entre les grands groupes du CAC40 et les TPE / PME. En effet, ces dernières sont moins préparées à la transformation digitale et moins avancées sur ces questions.
A propos d’Atoms Advisor…
Agence de conseil spécialisée en marketing & digitalisation des Ressources Humaines, Atoms Advisor accompagne toutes les entreprises dans leur projet de transformation digitale.
Vous souhaitez un nouvel outil high-tech pour moderniser vos RH ? Lancer une campagne de communication pour fidéliser vos salariés ? Ou être accompagné dans la conduite du changement ?
Alors, prenez contact avec Atoms Advisor pour faire décoller vos projets digitaux !
During the Learning Technologies trade show on January 23rd and 24th 2018, DLM News went on site and collected for you the testimony of 360Learning!
But who is 360Learning?
Created in 2013, 360Learning is positioned as one of the precursors of Digital Learning. In five years, this leader in the Digital Learning market has attempted to reform e-learning and make digital training an exciting collective adventure. And it’s a gamble that has paid off!
360Learning: a top-notch learning experience!
The deployment of the training courses is very quickly carried out with light and interactive document formats.
After a study, a very satisfying observation is made: 68% of the active trainers on 360Learning have no prior experience of e-learning. However, they only take an average of 31 minutes to create a first module. This is very fast for non-initiates. Moreover, the average time to get started is 5 and 10 minutes, which tells us how easy it is to use the platform.
Questions will also be present for the trainers to correct the learners. Learners will be able to answer them by typing their answers or by returning a document. The trainer is alerted and will determine if the answer is correct. He will also be able to leave a comment to the trainee, who will in turn be notified.
360Learning: Let’s talk about the experience!
The digital learning experience that 360learning offers will be integrated and global. Blended learning in the classroom and on the Internet, also called blended learning, is one of the pillars of 360Learning. Indeed, users can create e-learning modules, but also organize virtual classes and face-to-face courses. Everything is centralized for trainees and trainers.
Another pillar of 360Learning, Big Data remains a very important parameter.
The Big Data is one of the founding pillars of 360Learning as the private data of the users will be made visible and readable. 360Learning’s algorithms allow to automate and individualize the learning in an Adaptive Learning logic. The algorithms used by 360Learning automate and individualize the learning process in an Adaptive Learning logic. All this data can be exported and segmented at will. They are OPCA compliant.
In short, 360Learning, like DLM News, democratizes the use of digital learning, whatever the size of the company.
Are distant trainings & emotions compatible?
Interview with Clarence Thiery & Raphael LAUER- SYDO, educational consulting agency.
With the digitization of training, it is sometimes difficult to assess the effectiveness of distance learning, or even more so than previous face-to-face training.
Are your existing trainings aging? Or you don’t have any training yet, but a complex and strategic subject not very “sexy” to transmit? You don’t know how to go about it? Don’t worry, you are not alone and professionals are there to help you.
These new digital training courses, 100% distance learning, are today’s new methods of transmitting knowledge. Nevertheless, they can be used as a complement to face-to-face training. Because the latter are not dead! They just need a facelift, hence the interest of digital.
It is also thanks to these trainings that the teacher can gauge the students’ desire to learn, their understanding of the subject matter, and judge his own way of teaching thanks to the revealing expressions of his learners… their emotions.
Raphael LAUER & Clarence Thiery of SYDO (educational consulting agency) tell us more about this famous link between distance learning and the analysis of learners’ emotions.
Our way of learning is evolving, how can we adapt our way of teaching and transmitting?
The Evolution of Learning: The Context
Today’s challenge is to provide teachers and trainers with the means and tools to make their trainees want to learn. They must be increasingly interested, for example by arousing emotions and curiosity, or by organizing debates.
Indeed, it is increasingly difficult for learners to remain attentive for long periods of time on the same task. The traditional “top-down” model of training is being challenged. By this we mean the fact that a trainer pours out theory to his learners, without any exchange.
From now on, there is an increasing attempt to make the learners actors of their training. They are very quickly put into research situations, they work in groups, debate and exchange ideas. The trainer is there to organize these activities (with the help of fun activities and games), animate exchanges and guide the reflections.
These notions of interactivity and research tend to be validated by the educational sciences because of their influence on long-term learning.
Evolution of learning: an emotion analysis tool, iMotion
Analyzing the emotions of each learner is another key to better training.
This is why SYDO has chosen to acquire in 2016 a Danish tracking tool called iMotion. The objective is to analyze the emotional impact of the different distance learning tools on the learners.
In fact, it should be remembered that in face-to-face training, it is always easier to capture the emotion that the room emanates. For example, when a learner frowns… A good trainer will know how to adapt his or her speech to suit the situation. But in distance learning, the “emotion” side is left out.
iMotion is a tracking tool often used in advertising, or in cinema. But SYDO has chosen to use it for educational purposes. Thus, the consulting agency conducted its project internally and analyzed the emotional impact of three different educational videos. The goal was to be able to help the designers to improve their training system.
“X Learning”: these new ways of learning
This notion of “X learning” was used for the first time by SYDO on the occasion of the Digital Summr 2017, on the theme of new learning modes.
It highlights very well the fact that there are many “learning”, which are (or were) in fashion. Examples include e-learning, digital learning, blended learning, social learning, mobile learning, adaptive learning and incidental learning.
However, one should not confuse “rethinking ways of training” with “marketing concepts to look innovative”. Indeed, many terms are used today to talk about training, and it is sometimes difficult for trainers and training designers to find their way around.
So, what will tomorrow’s training be like?
Tomorrow’s training will undoubtedly be a mix of all these concepts.
How are emotions important in learning?
Emotion: a catalyst for learning
Thanks to cognitive science and neuroscience, we know things about the brain. But we still don’t know how to explain everything. Nevertheless, this research is very useful in understanding the concept of learning.
It highlights the link between emotions and learning. Positive emotions would be a catalyst for learning. This is how we can talk about the “pleasure of learning”. The more the trainees have a good time, the easier the learning will be.
By the term “emotions” we mean several statuses such as stress, attention, motivation, awareness, etc.
iMotion: a tool for analyzing emotions
Thanks to “eye tracking” technology, the iMotion tool follows the movements of the person’s gaze using an infrared camera. In this way, it tracks emotions and can determine what the person is paying attention to. More specifically, the camera evaluates variations in pupil size and the frequency of blinking.
The software can therefore collect and analyze biometric data.
The analysis of several training videos submitted to the learners concluded the pedagogical virtues of the scheme. In fact, the diagram is built up as the video is played (the principle of Motion Design) to give the learner a global vision of the concept being discussed.
In addition, perfect synchronization between this drawing and a voice-over explaining the diagram (based on the principle of double encoding) helps to guide the viewer’s attention and keep him or her focused.
Multiplying the complementary channels allows a better memorization and therefore a better learning process.
With this analysis, SYDO maintains that if a video is “well done” (both in terms of content and form), two people of equal level should be able to retain the same amount of information.
For each format, its learning benefits…
Drawing video, shooting or even subtitled video… each of these formats has advantages and disadvantages for learning.
Drawing video produces a lot of emotions, while the shooting format produces few positive emotions. And subtitled video allows the learner to focus only on the text.
What is the most effective format for learning?
“We don’t have enough hindsight and results today to give a firm and definitive answer. However, in the short term, the drawn video seems to be effective. A study is also underway to validate the hypothesis of a significant impact of the video in the long term. »
This powerful tool aims at optimizing SYDO‘s tools, but not only! It is intended for all people related to training who wish to optimize their training actions and devices.
In the long term, iMotion could even be coupled with powerful adpative learning concepts. The objective would be to process the learner’s emotions in real time, in order to deliver a customized training program that best suits his or her profile.
Sydo, the specialist in pedagogical innovation?
SYDO has published a first Book entitled ” give the desire to learn ! “published by Eyrolles Editions in order to share their expertise with all those who wish to transmit knowledge in a different way.
Soon (in September 2017), you will also find at Eyrolles editions, a second book ” Comment formerez-vous demain ? “which targets a wider audience. Indeed, it is not only trainers who want to boost training, but also training managers, managers, CFOs, and learners. You will discover the 11 training trends such as MOOC, or Adaptive learning. Each one is deciphered and accompanied by concrete examples and practical tips. You will also know how to set up these systems.
There is always the possibility to make people want to learn differently…
Every learner is different. Everyone learns at their own pace, in their own way. And above all, the learner forgets quickly. Two problems arise from this context: how to be able to personalize learning? Which tools should be chosen for the long term? Evan Friburg (Business Developer at DOMOSCIO, start-up EdTech) helps us answer these questions and explains the interest of using new technologies for learning.
At a time when a multitude of learning methods are available, what are today’s challenges for training organizations?
Training organizations face a very competitive market. They therefore need to differentiate themselves, offer a wider range of services, complementary services and even innovations to communicate on. This is the positioning of DOMOSCIO. We position ourselves as a complementary player in the market. Indeed, training organizations already have effective content and are sometimes even already equipped with online training platforms. DOMOSCIO complements them, with even more powerful technology that adapts training to each individual.
Nowadays, some training organizations favour a blending learning approach, i.e. a balanced balance between face-to-face and distance learning. We are convinced that face-to-face is far from being dead. All the more so as a number of tools allow us to reinvigorate and animate face-to-face learning. In the same way on the distant side, different forms of training were born: serious games, and especially adaptive learning.
Adaptive learning is an approach increasingly sought after by training organizations. Both large organizations such as Abilways, or even smaller ones. It’s a question of strategy… What type of learner are they targeting? With which client? What types of training do they deliver? Etc.
These adaptive learning tools are designed to save money and build customer loyalty, among other things. But more importantly, more importantly for training organizations: to benefit from feedback and feedback on the use of the learners.
Explain the concept of adaptive learning, what is adaptive learning?
The concept of adaptive learning was born in the 1970s with the first applications of artificial intelligence. It is back today thanks to the capabilities of today’s information technology. Created in 2013, DOMOSCIO is now the European leader in adpative learning. We are developing with a different, yet very solid approach.
The adaptive learning market is therefore quite recent. According to the EdTech Observatory, there are more than 250 French companies in the EdTech market. And 75 of them claim to be involved in adaptive learning. Of these 75, some use DOMOSCIO, or do not have the same definition of adaptive learning, which sometimes becomes a purely marketing term.
To make adaptive learning, DOMOSCIO is based on data. More concretely, the data is collected as soon as a user connects to an online course. Adaptive learning is knowing our learner and offering personalized recommendations. To do this, DOMOSCIO uses machine learning algorithms to process all this data. And it puts in parallel the principles of cognitive science, to highlight the best way to learn in the learner.
This technology is now possible because we now have immense storage capacity and computing power. These enable us to use recommendation technologies with very human-centric objectives and approach: helping people learn better and for longer.
DOMOSCIO offers 3 technological solutions:
- An adaptive learning solution that responds to the growing need for personalized learning. This solution consists in collecting the learner’s learning data and, in return, proposing to the learner, at a given time and according to his pedagogical objectives, which training he should follow.
- An adaptive anchoring® solution that addresses the second phase of learning: the need for revision and retention of information. Indeed, the learner quickly forgets. To do this, it is a good idea to make it easier for him to plan his revisions and to give him refresher shots. Following a training course, the learner will receive notifications inviting him to answer quizzes about it. Because this artificial intelligence system is able to measure how quickly the learner forgets.
- A learning analytics solution that responds to the challenges of a large number of actors on feedback. Indeed, the various users, learners, trainers, and managers need to benefit from almost instantaneous feedback to analyze the impact of training. This feedback is summarized, either in the form of a dashboard or in the form of alerts.
What are the objectives of adpative learning?
- The objectives can be varied, here are some of them:
- Reduce the time spent in training and therefore the time spent learning. To make personalization a way to go faster in the pedagogy. Because, according to the learner, technology will automatically rule out what is too difficult and what is too easy. Cognitive sciences have shown that to save time, you have to follow what is relevant.
- Engage the learner. Personalization makes it possible to motivate a group of learners, because each one has a training program that corresponds to him or her. The learner will therefore come back, will retain better and will enjoy learning.
- Efficient management of training courses. Adaptive learning allows you to push the manager with feedback. For example, what are the gaps in terms of the learner’s skills. It is a technology that helps and accompanies managers in their daily professional life.
- Facilitate and simplify reorganization in large companies. Adaptive learning tells the manager which is the best way to acquire the right skills, in a professional context where the trend is towards horizontal turnover. Thanks to the learning machine, we know the learner’s profile, his typology, we know what training he is taking, what has worked well for him in the past, and we are able to apply it to the present.
At what level is Big Data involved in the concept of adaptive learning?
The Big Data corresponds to an incalculable number of data, which can be analyzed thanks to the learning machine.
The principle of the learning machine is an algorithmic system that is able to learn by itself. Automatically, the learning machine updates itself according to the data collected. And it updates the models continuously. It will therefore improve regularly, this is what we call automatic learning.
For example, let’s take a new learner starting a course. He is new, so no data is known about him. The tool will then offer recommendations at the beginning, which will be of little relevance. Then, as the learner’s connections grow, the tool will collect data. It will therefore get to know the student better and artificial intelligence will then be more relevant and personalized. Adaptive learning also involves “clustering“: homogeneous people are grouped together in order to find a match between learners with similar learning styles. To then make similar recommendations. This “matching” also makes it possible to put two people with similar profiles in touch with each other so that they can help each other. Thanks to this collaborative learning, if one learner blocks, the other can help.
Concretely, in which learning situations does the concept of adaptive learning apply?
Adaptive learning is used by a variety of organizations, including :
- Publishers of increasingly digitized school content, such as the Hatier publishing house, with whom DOMOSCIO has also collaborated in the context of a call for projects from the French Ministry of Education.
- Higher education, such as the University Paris DESCARTES, or other Business Schools.
Continuing education (training organizations, SMEs, large groups, corporate universities, etc.). They use adaptive learning to make recommendations in their training catalog, offer learners the right formats (video, quizzes, etc.) and the right difficulty. But they also intervene in the form of notifications for reminder stings as part of the review. - LMS providers. Adaptive learning technology integrates seamlessly into LMSs to provide additional functionality. This is the case for XPERTEAM, or Opensource such as MOODLE, etc.
Domoscio combines cognitive sciences, Big Data and artificial intelligence to create adaptive learning solutions…
DOMOSCIO was founded in 2013 by two engineers Benoit Praly and Ivan Ostrowicz. R&D really started in 2012 following the graduation project of Benoit Praly, an engineer specialized in mathematics at ENSIMAG in Grenoble. His issue at the time was the following: I’m a student, and I want to know how to optimize my time to retain what I’ve learned in class and thus optimize my revisions? So he developed and put algorithms into practice.
Together with Ivan Ostrowicz, who has experience in organizational management and information systems, they created Domoscio. Between a fund raising in 2015, and soon another one, the start-up has won several awards. In 2014, it was recognized by the European Commission as one of the 7 most innovative start-ups in the field of training, then it won the Global EdTech Europe Trophy, and finally in December 2016, the Europe 1 Trophy for the Future in the Education category.
How far will the cell phone go in the upheaval of our uses?
After having revolutionized the way we communicate, inform, entertain and consume… now it is changing the way we learn. While there are now as many smartphones as there are people on our planet, mobile learning or mobile microlearning is in the process of renewing traditional modes of training, using this medium as an effective learning tool.
Jérôme Del Olmo, co-founder of the start-up inTeach, helps us understand what mobile microlearning is, and what its advantages are.
What is mobile microlearning?
Mobile microlearning or mobile learning, also conventionally called m-learning, appeared soon after the invasion of smartphones and tablets in the professional world. In an increasingly fast-paced world, where employees have less and less time to learn, the mobile has become a personal assistant that follows us everywhere. And one that we could benefit from by training ourselves a little, every day. The challenge of microlearning is to turn the cell phone into a training tool, just like a book or a computer.
There are constraints and advantages to this particular medium that shape mobile training.
- Microlearning. Courses should be short (3 to 6 minutes) so that learners can start a lesson with the certainty that they will complete it. In a mobile environment (metro, queues, lunch breaks, etc.) and on a reduced reading surface that requires more concentration on the part of the learner, this new granularity of content is essential.
- Gamification: or the use of game mechanisms. Quizzes, rankings, badges, challenges, points are all game springs that stimulate the learner. And this, while making learning fun and pleasant and sometimes boring.
What are the advantages of mobile microlearning?
Jérôme Del Olmo, co-founder of the start-up InTeach, unveils his Top 3 advantages of mobile microlearning.
N° 1 – Short and therefore effective sessions
Numerous cognitive studies have shown that short, repeated learning sessions are better retained by learners. The assimilation of knowledge has been shown to be improved with daily microlearning sessions of 3 to 5 minutes.
No. 2 – Mobile employees
Characteristic of our modernity: employees are increasingly mobile, even nomadic. The smartphone that accompanies them at all times allows them to train independently, when they want to (and therefore, when they are concentrated). In this respect, mobile microlearning fully meets the expectations of these famous modern learners, often from the Y/Z generation, whose fusional relationship with their smartphones and tablets is well known.
N° 3 – ATAWAD accesses
Thanks to their smartphone, and to use the concept invented by Xavier Dalloz “AnyTime, AnyWhere, AnyDevice”, learners have permanent access to their training courses. Whether it is a sales representative who wants to revise his product sheet or his way of selling. Or a newcomer looking for practical information (company culture, health insurance, internal rules…) about his new employer. Or a manager wishing to review the principles guiding public speaking before a presentation. In short, mobile microlearning technology allows these learners to find their training courses right out of their pockets. And when they need it!
InTeach, a start-up specialized in mobile microlearning
InTeach h is a white label mobile learning platform. It allows to broadcast educational microcontents on smartphone, tablet and computer, accessible on mobility.
The start-up deploys white-label applications to enable companies and training organizations to promote their brand to their stakeholders (employees or customers) with a training application in their colors.
Founded in 2016 by Pascal Merme and Jérôme Del Olmo, the start-up was born from a common will. That of adapting the recipes of consumer learning applications (such as Duolingo or Babbel) to professional training. The goal is thus to solve the problem of the often unsatisfactory completion rates of e-learning modules.
Their expertise in the development of mobile applications allows them to offer simple, fun and enjoyable mobile microlearning solutions. These applications notably use game mechanisms (quizzes, challenges, badges…) as a means of learning. InTeach is a solution equipped with a drag-and-drop authoring tool. It allows you to quickly and simply create content to publish it in real time on a mobile, tablet and web application, which allows you to consult your courses offline. An advantage for companies wishing to train their learners on mobile, with flexibility and simplicity.
In May 2017, Domoscio and InTeach announced their partnership to develop a complete and unprecedented Adaptive Learning solution for mobile devices.
Mobile microlearning is therefore within the reach of a majority of companies. But also organizations, who wish to engage their teams more in a playful, interactive and effective learning.
