Designing digital learning strategies

Business education has been far from immune * MOOCs and SPOCs have been heavily hyped and serviced millions of learners with new forms of programmes and courses * New entrants such as Lynda.com have created fresh product interfaces to new styles of content and MOOC providers such as Coursera have started to target corporate education * Business schools have launched digital hubs, embracing teaching techniques that blend face-to-face contact with online, video with animation, discussion boards with social networks. [...]analysis can then help to review potential tools and techniques to ensure they help achieve these outcomes in practice. * If someone is still learning the essentials of a subject then initial knowledge absorption may be paramount. In this case, post-programme interventions that empower and guide the executive at the point of need are essential - so a oneminute video, top tips and instant insights delivered just in time to reinforce learning would be appropriate. Live classes offer knowledge delivery and online chat that are powerful and are now much easier to achieve through a variety of technologies from the simple (Skype and Google Hangout) to high quality (HD videoconferencing and telepresence). In the business school context, the age of the case method is not dead - but it is evolving. Digital business education needs to be more about pedagogy rather than novelty and will take time to design in a manner aligned with rapidly evolving technology and a diverse multi-generational workforce. Only then is it possible to decide what tool...