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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.

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 Frédéric Domon , septembre 22, 2010

@akshat,
A coffee machine is a good starting point to create conversations :)
The tool must come at the end of your thinking process. You must first ask yourself the following questions: What kinds of social interactions are people looking to have in your learning environment?
What kinds of social interactions are you looking to facilitate?
How and from where do those interactions start?
Where do the conversations go?
What do people do with the outcomes of those conversations?

Overall, Elgg seems to be a good solution

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written by akshat , septembre 22, 2010

hi

which tools are currently out there to build a social community for learnig? I am trying out buddypress -

any help would be appreciated

thanks

akshat

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written by Edwin Munene , février 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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Community Mental Health Nurse for Older Adults, Independent Scholar and Informatics Specialist
written by Peter Jones , décembre 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

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