Learning in the Age of Knowledge on Demand
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The document discusses the evolution of learning, particularly focusing on on-demand knowledge in the digital age, emphasizing the importance of structural literacy and skill development in professional contexts. It highlights the challenges of traditional learning methods compared to real-world applications, using examples like the rigorous training for London cab drivers and the utility of tools like Jupyter notebooks for hands-on learning. O'Reilly Media's approach includes a blend of linear and non-linear learning methods to facilitate continuous skill acquisition and adaptation in various fields, particularly in software development.
Learning in the Age of Knowledge on Demand
- 1. Learning in the age of knowledge on demand Tim O’Reilly Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media
- 2. 2 Tim O’Reilly Founder & CEO O’Reilly Media oreilly.com @timoreilly Introduction • Providing learning for almost 40 years – books, events, online • Trends pioneered – Commercial Internet, Open Source, ebooks, Web 2.0, Maker movement, Big data • 500+ employees • 5,000+ enterprise clients, 2.5m platform users globally • Offices in US, Canada, UK, Japan, China • 17 global technology events serving 20,000 individuals and 1,000 sponsor companies
- 3. 3 “The Knowledge” vs the GPS
- 4. 4 Here’s How Hard It Is to Gain “The Knowledge” “The examination to become a London cabby is possibly the most difficult test in the world — demanding years of study to memorize the labyrinthine city’s 25,000 streets and any business or landmark on them.” The New York Times, November 10, 2014
- 5. 5 Was the answer better training?
- 6. 6 Knowledge is embedded in the interface
- 7. 7 Drivers learn the city by driving it
- 8. 8 Learning in the course of work
- 9. 9 I learned this trick by following a video But after doing it a few times, I don’t need the video any more.
- 10. 10 The Internet is a great resource for simple skills like tying knots, or trying out new recipes
- 11. 11 Or even refreshing yourself on a bit of math or physics you’ve forgotten
- 12. 12 How does this all apply to IT learning?
- 13. 13 There are prerequisites even for Uber Knowing how to drive Knowing how to use a smartphone app Knowing how to read a map Good communication skills Good work habits Basic business skills
- 14. 14 They are far greater for software development Use a computer effectively Have a logical problem-solving mindset Know the programming language – it’s not always your choice Know specific environments – the web, iPhone or Android, Windows, AWS or Azure Know how to use the latest developer tools Have UI-design sensibility Know where to find specialized code libraries and how to use them …
- 15. 15 “Structural literacy” – knowing enough to learn more in the flow of work
- 16. 16 Software boot camps everywhere
- 17. 17 But developers constantly need new skills
- 18. 18 Linear learning: Curated content to learn something new On demand learning: Answers to help you do your work
- 19. 19 STRUCTURAL LITERACY HIGH-LEVEL KNOWLEDGE LOW-LEVEL KNOWLEDGE CONTENTSTRUCTURE Professional Skills Development Framework PROFICIENT/HIGH PERFORMERS Use self-directed discovery for problem solving and nonlinear instruction to acquire new skills. Require high-quality, relevant content with depth and breadth. NEED THE FUNDAMENTALS Learn basics through comprehensive, sequential (linear) instruction. Require structured, highly curated content. Fluency Awareness Identification Non-Linear Learning Linear Learning
- 22. 22 Sessions available for review on the platform
- 23. 23 30,000 hours of video
- 24. 24 45,000 books
- 25. 25 Case Studies extend the marketplace model
- 27. 27 But what about when you’re searching for answers?
- 28. 28 Linear v. Non-Learning Behavior on the O’Reilly Platform Non-linear 42% Linear 58%
- 29. 29 Search-driven non-linear learning is one kind of learning in the flow of work… but there are opportunities to go deeper, with environments that support safe experimentation
- 30. 30 What happened when Richard Feynman was asked to critique an elementary physics textbook "I stuck my finger in, and I started to read: “Triboluminescence. Triboluminescence is the light emitted when crystals are crushed…” I said, “And there, have you got science? No! You have only told what a word means in terms of other words. You haven’t told anything about nature—what crystals produce light when you crush them, why they produce light. Did you see any student go home and try it? He can’t. “But if, instead, you were to write, ‘When you take a lump of sugar and crush it with a pair of pliers in the dark, you can see a bluish flash. Some other crystals do that too. Nobody knows why. The phenomenon is called “triboluminescence.” ’ Then someone will go home and try it. Then there’s an experience of nature.”
- 31. 31 Jupyter Notebooks • Open Source tool for “narrated computations” • Created by Fernando Perez and Brian Granger • 2-3 million users http://jupyter.org
- 32. 32 A Who’s-Who of top companies and universities
- 33. 33 Not just a learning tool, a working tool https://www.kaggle.com/surveys/2017 A Kaggle survey of ~8,000 data scientists identified Jupyter as the 4th most used data science tool for work.
- 35. 35 “An Active Learning Experience That Works” - Lorena Barba GWU “My experience with Jupyter notebooks is that students engage with the material in an almost tactile way. Manipulating a piece of code, experimenting with parameters in a problem, then reflecting and discussing the output makes for an active learning experience that works. The best results occur when students start creating their own notebooks....” Lorena Barba George Washington University
- 36. 36 Jupyter on the O’Reilly Platform Jupyter-enabled • Live trainings • Books • Video (Oriole)
- 37. 37 An executable, explorable explanation
- 39. 39 Executable task-specific documentation is the infrastructure of specialized on-demand learning
- 40. 40 Full circle…