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The e-learning market, which is backed by the wind of the pandemic, reached a size of more than 250 billion dollars in 2020. In the market, which is expected to reach half a billion in 5 years, the number of digital learning marketplaces is increasing. Kayhan Karlı, Founder of LEGOnimbus, said, “As learning becomes digital, it also becomes autonomous. This situation, which requires designing a new future in education, will bring the end of traditional schools.”

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ISTANBUL (TR) - The COVID-19 pandemic has further transformed the rapidly growing e-learning market, with schools and universities worldwide closing. According to UNESCO data, in March 2020, when the pandemic began to spread, more than 1.2 billion students' schools were closed in 186 countries. The rapid introduction of distance learning methods, dating back 300 years, paved the way for the e-learning industry in the past 2 years. According to the report published by Reportlinker in July 2021, the global e-learning market, which reached $250.8 billion in 2020, is estimated to grow by an average of 10.3% per year until 2026, reaching $457.8 billion. Making a statement on the subject, LEGOnimbus Founder and CEO Kayhan Karlı said, “The reason for people's existence is to be able, that is to do. We humans are machines driven to learn. In order to survive and by our nature, we have to learn every moment. It's also pretty ironic that people invented the school to learn but kept it inside. What's going on, are we demolishing all these years of school, you might ask? My answer can only be that we are transforming learning.”

Supports self-learners

“We took our place in the e-learning ecosystem with LEGOnimbus, which we built on our education experience of more than 30 years. LEGOnimbus, which we established in November as Turkey's first digital learning marketplace, brings together digital education tools and contents that support individuals to become autonomous, self-learning, rather than learning to learn. Learning becomes autonomous as it becomes digital. This situation, which requires designing a new future in education, will also transform traditional schools.” Kayhan Karlı continued his words as follows: “At Innovative Learning Schools and LEGOnimbus, which I am the founder of, we experience new learning models with many of our partners around the world. In this period when we need individual innovation, there should be such a learning ecosystem that both the 16-year-old and the 30-year-old learner are in the same ecosystem with their common skills. Modular education designs are coming. We are moving towards models where nations, states and borders do not exist.”

“We must redesign learning”

Kayhan Karlı, announcing the official launch of the learning-oriented marketplace LEGOnimbus, while talking about the future of e-learning at the online event they held on January 8, said, “Legonimbus, which offers sustainable, dynamic and innovative e-learning solutions, offers both national and international partnerships to both individuals and It provides services to educational institutions and companies. Işıl Tapan, Academic Coordinator of the digital learning marketplace “Learning is a movement from the inside out. Whatever happens about learning, first of all, something happens inside, in our essence. Since everything is about the self, it is up to the educators or the educational tools to develop these internal skills and muscles of the learners”, while its Director Gamze Önem says, “The prominent features of the learning programs are the basis of the programs structured on the skills required for individual learning. We realized that it did. When we examine the 7Speaking Language Program, one of our LEGOnimbus solution partners, and the diploma program of the American Brigham Young High School, we see the course designs that enable autonomous learning. Both programs offer content that is tailored to the individual, independent of time and place, and is geared to the interests of the learner, allowing the learner to follow their own development.”

“Digital language learning programs accelerate learning 4 times”

Speaking at the launch event, Koray Uzel, Founder of the local education platform Kodris, stated: “With digital, people need a common language. We consider this common language as coding in the world of technology. Coding develops analytical thinking and teaches learners to solve problems. This skill, which we used to develop among peers while playing on the streets, can now be done in digital environments with the coding language. Coding also helps children embody abstract concepts.” Moomin Language School - Playvation Education Specialist Saga Arola, who joined the event from Finland, said that language is the key to the world and said, “Many countries traditionally start foreign language education, especially English, at the age of 10. However, we know from research that in the rapid learning process of early childhood, a second language is learned the fastest and easiest at a young age. As the child's interaction with his mother tongue gets longer, he moves away from the sounds of other languages ​​over the years and becomes harder to learn. 7Speaking Regional Director, Educator Joshua Haywood, who attended from France, also shared the studies carried out that well-designed and artificial intelligence-based digital language learning programs accelerate learning 4 times compared to traditional models. He mentioned that the courses assigned considering the learner's level and language learning objectives triple the completion rate of the courses compared to traditional courses.

“We have reclaimed a school that would close with flipped classrooms”

Greg Green, Founder and CEO of FlipGenius Academy, who is on the list of “The World's 100 Best Educators”, talked about what he did when he learned that the high school he was the director of would be closed as a result of low achievements and lack of financial support: “I believed it was worth the effort even for a single child. My teacher friends also believed, and we applied the learning model we call 'inverted classrooms'. Within a year, the success of the school increased by 80%, the dropout rates decreased. In fact, university placement has reached up to 90%, which is 40% in the United States. It is worth transforming education even for a single child!” said. METU Faculty of Education Computer Education and Instructional Technologies Department Lecturer Prof. Dr. Soner Yıldırım, on the other hand, said: “People learn to survive. If learning is not designed cognitively, socially, or emotionally, it does not serve the need. A diploma offers life, and a certificate obtained through online education offers skills. For this reason, schools now have to prepare to be organized for meta-thinking skills. Schools will be places where observations and inquiries are made in the future. Not those who try to reach people through technology, but those who make sense of technology through people will be successful.”