Feb 1-3 I will be presenting at the Training 2010 conference with Dave Wilkins ( @dwilkinsnh ). In preparation, we came up with a bunch of things that one would need to know when creating a social learning strategy.  Checklist of Social Learning Strategies. Cultural Issues Related to Social Learning. What do executives, key stakeholders and “rank-and-file” think about social media and sharing? To what extent do learners take personal responsibility and accountability for their learning? Social Learning Approaches and Methods. MORE >>

In late 2010, the Corporate Leadership Council released its quarterly engagement trends report. One budding approach that may help unify your team, your business unit and your organization to ultimately enrich and enhance your corporate culture, such that all employees feel as though they are moving forward as a connected group, is through the deployment and utilisation of an internal enterprise-wide micro-blogging platform. How Micro-Blogging Came To Be. This was the beginning of a new term; micro-blogging. Henry Ford. Supplementing the point, 21.6% In Summary. MORE >>

I was at DevLearn 2010 last week - I had a great time presenting and I learned from some true masters. Conferences like this are a great experience in terms of actually meeting people in your personal learning network and getting to know them first hand. These questions led me to think that there's perhaps a few fundamental realities that we're missing with the whole enterprise social learning practice. People are Already Sharing Out There We're born with the fundamental desire to share and learn from peers. social media social learning lrnchat MORE >>

I am with Mark Oelhert this morning in his all day workshop about the tools of the Social Learning Landscape. Mark's focus is to look at social media tools, their impact on an organisation's culture. The catch is that you can use social media and Web 2.0 We're looking at Mark's social media implementation at Defense Acquisition University and while the tools don't look like they're the best designed from a visual standpoint - they definitely look quite awesome from a utility perspective. Someone in the room also mentioned chacha as a social QnA app. MORE >>

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Kirkpatrick Revisited by Barbara on April 18, 2011 in Instructional Design After I finished my post a few weeks ago on Reevaluating Evaluation , I found out that Donald Kirkpatrick , the granddaddy of the Four Levels of Evaluation, was taking a farewell tour before his retirement and would be presenting a workshop at the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) in Minneapolis. Level 2: Learning. He says unless one or more of the learning objectives?knowledge, MORE >>