Blended Learning and the Metaverse – Interview with Wilma Hartenfels

As part of our podcast series “Innovative Training in Sales and Insurance”Wilma Hartenfels interviews Philippe Séjalon on “Seamless Blended Learning”, the Metaverse and the future of training.  

Wilma: “Today I’m talking to Philippe Séjalon. Together with his brother Patrice and another founder, Marion, Philippe founded Ingage several years ago. Ingage brings innovative and immersive training experiences to the still quite traditional insurance industry.

Our interview (in English, with an introduction in German) is about the potential of the metaverse as a new stage of development of the Internet. Philippe explains how he brings together various disruptive technologies such as VR, AR, Blockchain, NFTs and crypto in a Seamless Learning approach to increase learner engagement.”

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WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT “WEB 3” IF YOU ARE IN CHARGE OF CORPORATE TRAINING

First of all, what is web3?

One day, a brilliant man, woman or group of persons named Satoshi Nakamoto – will we ever know? – created a brand new concept, the blockchain, with its first cryptocurrency, the now-famous Bitcoin, in a bid to react to the financial crisis that had made millions suffer. 

He had created a totally decentralized system where you could potentially store tremendous wealth, without even having to trust the people part of the system. Huh? How is that even possible? Well, we will go into one of the next articles, but not today.

   

So what’s the link between Web 3 and training?

Now, back to the reasons why you should care about web3 if you are in charge of corporate training.

You might have worked with e-learning before 2020. If not, since covid has obliged most organizations to move to online training for the past 2 years, you have probably felt the pain due to the need for a very fast digitization of your training curriculum. 

Besides the usual challenges of digitizing training, you might have also experienced some difficulties in getting your colleagues to complete the online modules you created for them with so much work. 

Indeed, completion rates in the industry are quite low on average and when they are not, management has quite probably used the stick at least as much as the carrot. So, motivation is the key, whether it is intrinsic or extrinsic.  

In training, the best is always to have participants be motivated by the topic itself that they learn, the intrinsic motivation. However, what if they are not that intrinsically motivated? 

In this case, obviously, you can go the route of extrinsic motivation. So, imagine an incentive program. You give points to people who have completed their courses. You even add a multiplier for people who have completed their courses with the right time frame for example. 

You can certainly create a great incentive program adapted to your company’s culture. You know your colleagues. You know what makes them tick.

However, these points are just arbitrary values put in your IT system. They have no real value per se and unless you have a broad range of partnerships that subscribe to your program, these points are worthless outside your organization or once your colleagues move to another company. So, in the very vast majority of cases, people will not see these points as really having a value in the future.

Now, imagine that instead of valueless points you actually can give some digital tokens – in the form of coins or NFTs – that actually have a real value, even outside your organization. Would people be more inclined to try to collect them?

Obviously, there are more ways to use Web 3 for education (e.g. remuneration for authors and other contributors). Do you see any other use? 🙂

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WHY UNDERSTANDING THE EVOLUTION OF THE WEB IS KEY TO YOUR CORPORATE TRAINING.

Well, let’s start with the beginning, shall we?

The Internet is a network of networks, of computers. We know that.

On top of the Internet, there is a layer to make it more user-friendly: the Web. Over the past 30 years, it has evolved drastically to reach its third version now. Each version has brought something to the world of learning, of education. 

  
— Web 1 —
The first version of the web, “web 1”, was what we knew in the early 90s. It consisted of read-only static webpages. Companies created websites that were basically a copy of their product catalogues and magazines, but online. The web was a true open space running on open protocols such as http or smtp to enable these computers to “talk” to each other.

Its contribution to education? Web 1 made a lot of knowledge available to the masses. People could get access to information without having to run from one library to the next!

At that time, I was doing one of my very first traineeships, in Norway, and I stumbled across a book about that “network of networks”. I was instantly fascinated and proposed to my then-boss to create what would probably be the first website of an insurance company in Norway.


— Web 2 —
After around 15 years, people had been accustomed to using websites, but they wanted to be able to interact with them. They could already read webpages, but now they also wanted to be able to write, answer to them and contribute. That led to a second version of the web, “web 2”. This is when Facebook and Twitter, among others, developed at an incredible speed. These companies created centralized systems and stored their users’ data in their own servers. And then asked their users to hand over their photos, data – basically their intellectual property – to them giving them an unmatched wealth of information.

Its contribution to education? Web 2 made it possible to have much more interactive learning activities (interactive videos, Multiple Choice Questions, educational games…) and modern Learning Management Systems (LMS). 

Then, unexpectedly – for most of us at least – the financial crash of 2007/2008 took place and changed the world nearly over night.

I was living in Hong Kong at that time and I remember the long files of desperate people queuing in front of “their” banks trying to get back some of their hard-earned savings. In vane…


— Web 3 —
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Next-gen learning platforms will need to support NFTs to stay relevant

A few years ago, my friend Alex introduced me to the blockchain and crypto world. Though it initially took me some time to understand its potential, once I finally did it opened up a whole new world. The concept that really helped me understand what this technology was all about was this notion of “the Internet of Value”- an open network with unstoppable apps that could hold actual value in the form of tokens. 

I was convinced there was a use case that could improve traditional online learning. The last time I had had that feeling was when I first discovered what was called then the “network of networks” (the Internet). I was doing one of my first traineeships, in an insurance company in Norway. At that time there were less around 2,000 websites – in the whole world. I was so excited about it that I proposed to my then-boss to create a website to help clients find the right insurance products for them. “A website? What is it?” she answered. However, she was brilliant and open-minded and gave me the go-ahead to try it out. This was quite probably the first website of an insurance company in Norway, maybe Scandinavia. I’m still waiting for that company’s confirmation… ? (read the story

And then about a year ago when we first started mentioning “NFTs”, most people had no idea what we were talking about. It took us far too long to explain new terms such as fungible tokens, gas fees, crypto wallet, DeFi and much more.  

Fast forward 12 months and NFT (non-fungible tokens) are close to becoming a household term.  Clients are now expressing genuine interest about the role of blockchain-powered solutions in our learning products. Many tell us that we are the first to show them real tokenised solutions in learning and want to find out more.  

These leading insurers are courted by the most prominent training companies in the world. And yet they repeatedly single us out for being the most innovative.  

At INGAGE, our team is busy creating the next generation learning platform. Our R&D team is currently working on integrating a blockchain based incentive system directly into our course modules. Users will soon be able to earn both NFTs and fungible tokens as part of their learning journey. Stay tuned for more details on our upcoming releases! 

The following article does a nice job explaining the generational divide between modern and legacy platforms:

How NFTs are creating a generational divide between platforms  

Extract: “Today, let’s talk about a fault line that’s beginning to open up in the gaming world, one I suspect will soon be coming to most platforms and app stores. It’s a divide that begins with a simple question: will your platform allow NFTs? Crypto payments? You know … blockchain stuff? 

Like it or not, the rise of non-fungible tokens as an engine for fun and profit has been one of the tech world’s big stories in 2021. Using the blockchain to create unique digital objects with verifiable, transferrable ownership has opened up new possibilities in art, digital trading cards, and gaming. At least for the moment, it seems likely that other forms of media will follow.” 

Source: Steam banned blockchain games; Epic Games welcomed them By Casey (Oct 20, 2021, 6:00am EDT) 

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