Defining social learning
Editor’s note: Marcia Conner, author of The New social Learning, sets out what social learning is and what it is not.
Browsing: social learning
Social learning and competence
Editor’s note: An exploration of the links between social learning, competence and effectiveness.
Video: How to make the most of social learning
Dan Pontefract shares his thinking on social learning and how to measure its effectiveness.
Scaffolding pockets of social learning: ideas for practical implementation
Editor’s note: Julian Stodd looks at why it is important to build in some spaces for reflection and discussion within the social learning journey and also shares some ideas on where to build them.
#PunkHR: social learning – productive anarchy
Editor’s note: A more anarchic view of learning in the organisation from Perry Timms with a look at what social learning could actually look like.
Learning in a social workplace: the impact of social media
Editor’s note: A slide deck from Jane Hart’s recent presentation to the Canadian Society of Training and Development’s Conference on social media and social learning. Worth looking at the traits of a ‘smart worker’.
How do you measure the return on investment for social learning?
Editor’s note: A perennial, thorny and much debated topic made more complex by social learning. Julian Stodd provides a useful piece on how to approach measuring the ROI of social learning.
Sharing in learning and the vulnerability of sharing: research into music in learning
Editor’s note: Insights into how people share information, which is clearly critical to ideas of social learning.
eLearning Guild research: What are the benefits of social learning?
Editor’s note: A look at the benefits of learning from others. This article looks at just one part of Ben Betts’ recent report for the guild into social learning.
Social learning: answers to 8 crucial questions
Editor’s note: Ben Betts reflects on his recent research report in to social learning which he produced for the eLearning Guild. Some interesting thoughts on the role of the learning professional in a more ’social’ world.
From training to performance to social
Editor’s note: Slide deck from Harold Jarche that takes the journey from training to social learning. Packed with useful slides.
The role of the enterprise learning community manager
Editor’s note: In this post, Jane Hart, founder of the Social Learning Centre, maps out what a learning community manager does, and could do, and why organisations should be looking to evolve the more traditional role of the training manager.