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.
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?
Jane Hart’s social learning definitions:
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- PDL – Personal Directed Learning – how individuals can use social media for their own (self-directed) personal or professional learning
- 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.
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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written by Peter Jones, December 06, 2009
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written by Edwin Munene, February 20, 2010
Jane Hart’s social learning definitions have put what we are doing at Symclub into perspective.
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RT @ecollab: La clé de la réussite du Social Learning en 2010 par @LearningPutty http://bit.ly/c8zp76
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