Editor’s note: This analysis of two ways to deliver the same training aims to show the shortcomings of the notion of learning transfer and to highlight what useful social interaction in learning could look like and why it might have an impact on employees.
Editor’s note: Tim Drewitt presents a simple model of behaviours that support social learning, one based on openness, transparency, empowerment and sharing. This seems pragmatic and very positive. Is it achievable?
Editor’s note: Jane Hart has just published her annual list of the top 100 tools as used by learning professionals. Always a good read to see what’s in fashion and what is going out of fashion.
Here are ourdited Twitter highlights of the Chat2lrn Twitter chat on #social learning which took…
Editor’s note: Sam Burrough and I are running a MOOC on social learning and as we research the topic we find that there maybe emerging model to describe the impact of digital culture on learning but that these are emergent. This is a great – and well referenced – article by Steve Wheeler which acts as a good starting point for anyone trying to establish exactly what social learning is.
Editor’s note: Thanks to Julian Staddon for pointing us to this review of using Facebook Groups as a part of a college course. This is useful if you want to use Facebook Groups but also useful for highlighting why using tech such as this does and does not work for people.
Here are our curated tweets from the Chat2lrn Twitter chat on #social learning. [View the…
This week’s installment of From Scratch, our conversation with Nigel Paine on people development topics,…
Editor’s note: A social theory of learning is based on a series of trade-offs between four elements. Bill Cushard explains.
He flunked school, got kicked out of college, set up a successful business and has…
Editor’s note: “We do not ‘store information’. Our decision-making process is rarely deductive. We are creatures that store and compare the subtle webs of association developed by our affective systems. It turns out that thoughts really are the shadows of our feelings – and though it is hard to imagine, it is our feelings not our thoughts that are complex.” A great post by Nick Shackleton-Jones on the affective context model.
Editor’s note: Talking out loud, or rather narrating your work, ideas and thinking, seems to be all the rage. Here Julian Stodd reflects on his working out loud.
Editor’s notes: Interesting insights from Ben Betts who has been running a social learning lab – a kind of mini-MOOC. If you design elearning then read the bit on curation.
Harold Jarche’s talk at the Learning and Skills Group summer conference was on Moving to…
Jane Hart’s slides from her keynote at the International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace,…