THE KYDON DIFFERENCE

Building Human Capital

At our core, we are committed to building human capital for our customers. The human capital resides in either our clients’ workforce, communities they serve or business partners in which training is a vital function for organizational success. We leverage cutting-edge technology and innovative pedagogical strategies to develop the skills and knowledge of individuals our customers work with across every industry or community. By focusing on human capital, we not only help individuals reach their full potential and employees enhance their careers, but also contribute to the growth, competitiveness and mission of our clients’ organizations.

Driving the Use of Technology in Learning

We drive the use of technology in learning by developing innovative solutions that transform traditional training delivery and business models. From hybrid learning, deployment of AR/VR and gamification, to the use of AI, machine learning and data analytics for real-time learning feedback, personalised adaptive learning paths and retrieval of learning content on-demand, the possibilities of tech for learning are endless. Through leveraging on cutting-edge technologies, we enable organizations to achieve their learning and development goals with greater efficiency and impact.

Scalable, Sustainable and Adaptable Solutions

Our focus is on developing solutions that are scalable, sustainable, and adaptable, ensuring they meet the evolving needs of our customers.

We design our platforms and tools with the flexibility to accommodate growth and change, allowing organizations of any size to efficiently scale their training programs. Our platforms can easily expand to accommodate growing user numbers, user types, varied and complex training requirements, without compromising on performance or usability.

Our focus on sustainability ensures that our solutions are never too expensive to maintain or upgrade over the program’s life cycle, and that they deliver significant value for our customers. By zeroing in on adaptability, we ensure our solutions integrate seamlessly with existing commonly used systems, adapt to new markets and future advancements, thereby providing higher and longer-term value to you.

Holistic Perspective in Solutioning

We don’t just look at what needs to be fixed but the whole ecosystem of learning when designing our solutions: content, technology, processes and people. In the learning ecosystem, people include teachers, subject-matter experts, administrators, learners and the external community of vendors, distribution partners and collaborators. This approach to solutioning will give any learning transformation initiative the highest chance of success given our current age of the knowledge economy.

How the World and Learning Has Changed

Empowering Learners

Our vision of learning involves learner engagement, ideation, community building and network connection leading to higher learning efficacy and work performance. The key is empowering learners to handle change as a constant. Our learning solutions are designed with these beliefs in learning to empower our clients’ learners:

Learning is self-driven, and learning paths are personalized.
Learning networks are social and collaborative.
The learning environment is immersive and collaborative, not passive and one-way.
The learning environment is learner-centric, not teacher-centric
The role of the teacher is learning facilitation, not instruction
Rapid content creation is powered by technological innovation

Transformative Learning in the 21^st Century

The Kydon Manifesto

The Kydon Manifesto is the blueprint that guides what we do as a learning solutions company.

Introduction

The modern workforce must prepare for the workplace of the future. The Kydon Manifesto is founded upon a fundamental shift in the approach to how people train and learn. Current education and training approaches are problematic in that they tend to use traditional methods to condition instinctive responses to various pre-conceived situations. Beyond acclimatizing our workforce to expected workplace behaviors, there is now an urgent need to imbue our people with a willingness to move away from “correct” and “proven” techniques.

Kydon’s approach to learning takes into account the contemporary workplace’s need for a different attitude towards training and learning. It encompasses a Transformational Learning capability that does more than just train or educates people but also inspires their hearts and minds to actively engage in innovation.

Transformative Perspective to Learning

We posit that learning pedagogies will need to transform from industrial-age mass production of similar people for the structured industries to knowledge-age mass customization of adaptive innovators for the unstructured, complex environment. Curriculum transformation that embraces new learning methods, interactive and immersive learning content and innovative use of technology-enabled by an enlightened instructional team is the key lever. To do this, there is a need to move from the traditional design of instructions as sterile detached components to a design of learning in holistic authentic contexts.

Furthermore, learning systems will need to transform from the traditional notion of centralized linear-hierarchical knowledge-transfer modality to a distributed pervasive content accessibility and collaborative knowledge construction modality. An eLearning transformation that embraces innovative learning technologies and unprecedented access to learning content, enabled by a superior Infocomm-technology infrastructure for knowledge collaboration will be essential.

Imperatives for Learning Transformation

The volatility and complexity of the future workplace would require modern enterprises to rapidly learn and adapt continuously while equipping our people with cognitive tools to innovate local solutions to emerging challenges. There is also a critical need to motivate our people towards learning. In the past, operational systems were less complex and we could direct trainees on what to learn. With the quantum increase in complexity and content of the modern economy, learners must now be motivated and empowered with the necessary means to ensure that they can learn better and faster. Our people are also expected to adapt and innovate to develop local solutions to overcome local challenges without much direct supervision. To do so, they must be nurtured with higher-order competencies. Our organizational culture, training system, and instructional and learning methods must change correspondingly to nurture these new skills as well as engender a culture of life-long learning.

Creating an Enduring Change – Transformation Model

It cannot be assumed that the pairing of novel and exciting pedagogical strategies with technological solutions would naturally lead to deep and effective learning if these initiatives are not made in tandem with a paradigm shift in learning. We believe a shift from a predominantly instructional or teaching paradigm to a learning paradigm, enabled by five interdependent transformational elements, is key to learning transformation success.

Curriculum Readiness. Curriculum transformation deals with the “what” and “how” of education and training. Modern competencies and values inculcation components must be matched with appropriate learning strategies supported by necessary technology and infrastructural capacities to ensure effective delivery. The core idea is to rewrite the curriculum to achieve desired objectives commensurate with their espoused vision.

Technology Readiness. We must strive to leverage advances in technologies to provide our people with richer learning content with faster time-to-market, extend learning beyond classrooms, enable personalized (as opposed to mass-produced) delivery and grow social/collaborative learning networks. Mobile learning provides an alternative learning avenue during downtime, access to a myriad of online knowledge resources, and encourage peer-to-peer sharing. Learning will be engaging and exciting. A personalized learning environment shifts the focus on the learner to discover, sensemake, construct and share knowledge using blogging, podcasting, mind mapping, networking, and collaboration.

Content Readiness. We must endeavor to build rapid digital content development capability. The core idea is to have interactive web-based digital content (including eManuals, videos, games, and courseware) that are customizable, reusable, and shareable across the organization.

People Readiness. Educators, Trainers, and managers must shift away from passive, uni-directional lectures towards active, learner-centric environments. Leveraging technology and hands-on activities, their role must change from a content deliverer to a learning facilitator. The core idea is to re-profile our people to understand the psychomotor, cognitive, and affective requirements of the modern operating environment and our workforce’s changing demographics. Our people must be equipped with balanced competencies in instructional and learning capacities, capable of exploiting technology to achieve learning outcomes.

Structure Readiness. At the organizational level – we must facilitate the learning of our members and continuously transforms ourselves. This begins with recognizing that learning is the competitive edge of any organization and not an HR function alone. Leaders must be willing to disrupt themselves and drive the organization towards embracing learning as a core competency. We must also plan and consider the structural and cultural support elements to make such change sustainable. At the society level – it is about becoming a learning society – which the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) consider key to development via a different kind of learning. In such a world, learning is extended beyond formal learning (schools, universities, institutions, etc.) into informal learning; it is an “activity, not a place” it empowers self-directed lifelong learning.

Ignoring any of these transformation elements can by themselves cause the failure of any modern transformation. Yet, each element alone will not bring about the real and sustained change that is desired.

Transforming Learning Systems for Tomorrow

Bearing in mind learning takes place at the individual level, Kydon’s vision is a multi-pronged approach to transforming the learning systems of today for tomorrow. We envision a rich learning environment in organizations and institutions through better engagement of learners.

This can be achieved through immersive pedagogical paradigms that exploit their cognitive capabilities, the encouragement of self-driven learning, and the engendering of a spirit of life-long learning by building a learning eco-system that encourages self-directed and collaborative learning modalities, all supported through the delivery of rich content over a pervasive IT infrastructure.

Our vision can be broken down into four broad areas: Engaging Digital Learners, New Learning Paradigms, New Pedagogies, and New Knowledge Mobilisation.

Balanced and Sustained Approach to Learning Transformation

While our ideas radically shift the traditional notions of learning, our approach remains balanced and adaptive. We believe behaviorist or cognitive methods such as drills and memory work for mastering procedural and repetitive skills continue to be valid and important where they are needed. It is Kydon’s strong belief too that change is not instantaneous and cannot be rushed, but sustained by nudging along progressively through perseverance and strengths in leadership.

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When you partner with Kydon, you’re not just hiring a software vendor to build a learning management system or an e-learning business to digitalize your training content. You’re engaging a team of experts who understand the requirements for successful learning in the 21st century. With this expertise, we offer the best solutions for your organizational training needs.

At Kydon, we embody our commitment through our proprietary learning platform, ZilLearn. We continually refine it to ensure it meets the evolving needs of modern learning. We invite you to experience its benefits and provide us with your valuable feedback as we pursue our vision and mission in training and education.

This is the Kydon difference. And our promise to you.

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