I've been asked by a number of people where they can see my presentation on social learning that includes the slide on social learning models . You'll find the presentation here in this Slideshare widget together with other recent presentations. It's called "Supporting formal and informal learning" and is the 3rd in a series of 3 on social learning.  0160; #1 is "From E-Learning to Social Learning", and #2 is "Using Elgg as a social media platform" - also available in this bundle | Get your SlideShare Playlist ...Tags:

Jones and I are doing a session at Training 2010 titled  Defining Your Social Learning Strategy .  As As prep for this, we’ve put together a comprehensive checklist of Social Learning Strategy topics that learning professionals and executives should consider when thinking through their objectives and plans.   Introduction to Social Learning Strategies Kevin D. Here is a link to the doc, but if you would prefer to read it in-line, the full body of the doc is below.  Let

I am often asked by business leaders to describe what we intend to measure in order to understand, manage, and improve the networked (or social) learning eco-system.  There is interest in knowing how we will prove networked learning, turn potential chaos into something that is more certain and efficient, and to get some kind of “history” about the learning and development for individuals and organizations. We do not want to take a traditional ‘Learning Management System” appraoch and treat networked learning as formal training.

It's been talked about for years, but 'Social Learning' is more recently becoming the big buzz word in learning, and you should probably pay attention because it's being pegged as the next generation of eLearning (heavily debated of course, as is everything in learning). My definition of 'social learning' as I understand it is learning that takes place through the use of a collection of web-based tools like wikis, blogs, and social networks which build community and conversation around a topic encouraging a collaborative knowledge sharing environment.

Following on from my previous post where I discussed the need for spelling out the use of social media for learning, I have now started to pull together a new resource, which looks at how social media can be used for different types of learning. Rather than use the broad categories of formal and informal learning - terms which I think are  pretty difficult to grasp, and which are being confused and abused if phrases I have read like "managing informal learning information" are anything to go by! - I have decided to categorise the use of social media in the following 5 different ways:

I've just completed the third in a series of 3 articles for Inside Learning Technologies magazine .  The series looks at three different ways of creating a social learning environment - for free or at low cost: Part 1 - Using free public social media tools , October 2009 0160; The first two appeared in the November and December editions, the third will appear in the Conference Edition in January - but you can preview it here. 2009

At DevLearn, many people lamented the difficulty of explaining the benefits of social media to their managers and peers. learning applications. Jane mined the submissions of her delightful tools database and came up with 100+ ways to use social media for learning . She covers blogs, collaborative We talked about building a repository of web 2.0 It turns out that my pal Jane Hart has already done it for us!

When I help organisations understand how to incorporate social media into their formal e-learning content to create formal social learning, I explain this can be done in 3 different ways as shown in this slide from a presentation I use: However, I also impress that (1) won't work that well - it'll be like the early days of e=learning when online learning was bolted onto formal courses - it just wasn't used!  0160; Social aspects need to be well integrated into a course to ensure that they arean  integral part of it (2), but furthermore a collaborative approach (3) - where the course is focused around working together rather that the content itself - is a very effective model.

Learning increases Learning increases Social Networking Advantages: Learning increases ...Tags: Tags: social media collaboration blogging Searching RSS Social Learning SIG Email I don’t know who to credit this to, but I love it. It has been posted so many times that the originator is lost.

It's amazing to think we are already talking about the "history" of social media, but I've been collecting a few articles that demonstrate how in fact today's tools which might seem revolutionary are just evolutionary: Back in June 2009, Social Media Rockster ran a posting: A brief history of social media , which began "Social quot;Social media isn’t really “new.” While it has only recently become part of