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Social learning is real

Once again, I’m learning from my colleagues, as yesterday I realized how important self-direction is in enabling social learning. Now I’m picking up on Jay’s post on Social Learning Gets Real and see how it connects to Jane’s observations. Jay has described several aspects of the future of social learning (below) and they map to the matrix (farther down) I created based on Jane’s five types of social learning.

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As Jay says:

In the past, we’ve focused on individuals but work is performed by groups. Hence, I expect us to start helping groups learn to perform instead of individuals.

Why is this important? We have structures and systems in place that promote and validate individual training but we leave almost all of the social learning to chance.

For example:

Would it be better to 1) take a generic classroom workshop on information management or 2) spend a few hours serendipitously learning on Twitter.

Is it more effective to a) read prepared case studies or to b) co-create your group’s case study that can be shared with the entire organization?

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Jane Hart’s social  learning definitions:

  1. IOL – Intra-Organisational Learning – how social media tools can be used to keep employees up to date and up to speed on strategic and other internal initiatives
  2. FSL – Formal Structured Learning - how educators (teachers, trainers, learning designers) as well as students can use social media within education and training – for courses, classes, workshops etc
  3. GDL – Group Directed Learning – how groups of individuals - teams, projects, study groups etc – can use social media to work and learn together (a “group” could just be two people, so coaching and mentoring falls into this category)
  4. PDL – Personal Directed Learning – how individuals can use social media for their own (self-directed) personal or professional learning
  5. ASL – Accidental & Serendipitous Learning – how individuals, by using social media, can learn without consciously realising it (aka incidental or random learning)

Across the chasm

I’ve written before how I use the chasm model to explain my professional work of 1) seeing what is ready to cross the chasm by 2) staying connected to the innovators & being an early adopter so that 3) I can help mainstream organizations. It’s a graphic summary of my consulting practice. As you can see, I ignore the Laggards.
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In the field of web social media for workplace performance, what technologies are the Innovators experimenting with?

Which ones are now being picked up by the Early Adopters (like me) and finally, which technologies and ideas are ready to cross the chasm to the Early Majority?

  Innovators Early Adopters Crossing the Chasm
Technology Simulations Micro-blogs Blogs

Role-playing Social Networks Wikis

Waves Mobile Social Bookmarks
Ideas Emergent Learning PKM – PLN – PLE
Performance Support

Subject Matter Networks
Complexity
Informal Learning

Group-centric Learning
Flow
Online Collaboration

Any other ideas, additions or comments?

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Community Mental Health Nurse for Older Adults, Independent Scholar and Informatics Specialist
written by Peter Jones, December 06, 2009
Hi, Brilliant posts - especially '1st Ecollab topic: The future of the training department in the Collaborative Enterprise'. I had the pleasure of hearing Dave Snowden speak at Lancaster University, NW England last year at the Complexity group meeting there. Thank you for the prompt to return to this. Noting your focus and links the following conceptual model introduced through a website and blog -

http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/

- may be of interest?

Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model [h2cm]

http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/

- can help map health, social care and OTHER issues, problems and
solutions. The model takes a situated and multi-contextual view across four knowledge domains:

* Interpersonal;
* Sociological;
* Empirical;
* Political.

Our links pages cover each care (knowledge) domain e.g.
INTERPERSONAL:

http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/links.htm

SCIENCES:

http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/linksTwo.htm

- which includes a listing of complexity resources.

Best regards,

Peter Jones
RMN, RGN, CPN(Cert), PGCE, PG(Dip) COPE, BA (Hons.).
Community Mental Health Nurse for Older Adults,
Independent Scholar and Informatics Specialist
Lancashire, UK
website: Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
blog: Welcome to the QUAD
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/
h2cm: help 2C more - help 2 listen - help 2 care
http://twitter.com/h2cm
Social media and contemporary education
written by Edwin Munene, February 20, 2010
Really informative article.
Jane Hart’s social learning definitions have put what we are doing at Symclub into perspective.

http://www.symclub.com/blog.php

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