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7 Challenges to Social Learning

Origin Learning

The focus should be on encouraging communities of practice, discussion groups etc. Issues like firewalls and security may be major concerns when you launch an enterprise-wide social learning project. Truth is, the best organizations play lesser emphasis on documenting every form of learning. without necessarily measuring them.

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Notes from DevLearn and the Adobe Learning Summit

Steve Howard

interaction behind the company firewall – safe, secure conversations not visible to the public. Beware, 1st one is great, but suffers from cognitive overload. • ultimately companies will be able to run their own wave server – behind firewall if they want. Also a form of cognitive overload. Quick and easy to set up.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

To create intellectual capital it can use, a company needs to foster teamwork, communities of practice, and other social forms of learning. In sum, communities are much more than a way to make up for knowledge deficiencies of some individuals. The hunger for proprietary knowledge does not stop at the firewall.