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The differences between social professional networks and communities of practice

Matrix

There is special emphasis on developing communities of practice (both within the organization and outside it) to encourage the professional development of employees in a friendly, effective and non-invasive manner. Main difference between social and professional communities. Communities of practice focus on a subject.

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Learning from Experimentation

Clark Quinn

We were talking about how to lift the game of Modern Workplace Learning , and each had staked out a position, from human performance consulting to social/informal. Jane talked about how you had to walk the walk: working out loud, personal learning, coaching, etc. In fact, celebrate the lesson learned, regardless of success!

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Addressing the elephant in the room with effective learning evaluation

Elucidat

Play this episode Top tips for effective learning measurement and evaluation Don’t have time to listen now? Here are 20 learning measurement ideas to show impact and improve performance. Not only are L&D unused to the practicalities of measuring impact or calculating Return on Investment (ROI). Check out the full podcast.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | October 1, 2021

Mike Taylor

Not all learning investments are created equal. The Communities of Practice Playbook. Communities of practice can strengthen our capacity to work and learn creatively together while harnessing the collective intelligence in the organisation to deliver integrated policy work and overcome silo mentalities.

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PKM is our part of the social learning contract

Jane Hart

Yesterday, Harold Jarche shared the image on the right, in his post To learn, we must do. PKM is therefore the key to successful social learning. The PKM framework is based on eight years of practical research and use. For me this is spot on.

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Social Learning Has Its Place…And Informal Learning Does Too.

Dashe & Thomson

Two weeks ago Jane Hart wrote an article titled, Social Learning: to be or not to be? , in which Jane expresses her dislike of the term Social Learning (big S, big L). Jane claims that “Social Learning has come to refer exclusively to the use of social media in top-down, formal learning.” We’re not always social.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | November 20, 2020

Mike Taylor

Learning Tech Trends Q&A Call. Dani Johnson of RedThread Research talks with Christopher Lind about the Learning Technology landscape. The Organizational X-factor: Learning Agility. Learning agility, sometimes described as “knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do”, requires an open and receptive mindset.