As I’ve been going along in this mission of discovery that is my mid-life career-change search, I’ve come to realise just how important Learning & Development really is to me. It’s become a key area for me to look further into – especially in response to my wholly-positive experiences of MOOC’s so far and in relation to my budding interest in all things programming- and technology-led.
I’ve been thinking more and more about the ideas Accelerated Learning and Augmented Learning (specifically in relation to an ongoing developmental Programming Project). In brief, this is about how machine learning and artificial intelligence can be used to help and empower humans, rather than just be there to make rich people more money and put more people out of jobs and into long-term unemployment or underemployment.
I realise I need to add two new streams to my Personalised Training Plan:
1. Information Theory Stream – in response to the recent Google Doodle celebrating the life of Claude Shannon, the father of Information Theory;
2. Learning/Development Stream – how humans learn vs. how machines learn, and how machines can be developed to augment human learning (as inspired by my grand dream of the ‘USBook’, various mind-wanders I’ve been having recently and most recently by Dr. Chuck‘s recommendation to study Dr. Barbara Oakley’s courser course about Learning to Learn.
The original PTP syllabus (links to full syllabus [private] and summary syllabus [public]) was set up specifically for the stated goal of transitioning to a new career in Data Science. This appears to be being superseded by this pivot towards Education and EdTech. I’ll therefore add these two new PTP syllabus areas into a new EdTech PTP Syllabus (to be worked on in more detail in coming weeks, but started here).
(Afterthought: I had begun to post on Collaborative Learning too earlier in the year, as this has become a big thing for me in light of recent professional experiences, so this stream should also be added. It also feels important to add further streams on Innovation and Agile Methodologies as well, since these are two further skill areas if I’m to move either a software/programming direction or in the direction of EdTech.)