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Dashe & Thomson
FEBRUARY 9, 2011
My background includes extensive experience in learning, teaching, and facilitation, and I love technology and how its changing our culture. Properly d. Properly d.
Drivers of Yammer use in the corporate sector
E-Learning Provocateur
JUNE 17, 2012
Yammer has been quite a success at my workplace. Every so often I’m asked by a peer at another company what they can do to increase the use of Yammer in their own organisation. Every so often I’m asked by a peer at another company what they can do to increase the use of Yammer in their own organisation.
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Social Learning – A Transformational Shift in Workplace Learning
Origin Learning
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
“How do I make my team work better by letting them learn the skills they need?”. This is the primary question that L&D managers seek to address when embarking upon workplace learning programs in their organization. Understanding Social Learning Theory. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Learning Socially.
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Connecting Social Learning to e-Learning
dVinci Interactive
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Social media continues to grow worldwide. Facebook, Twitter and Yammer are becoming more accepted tools in the workplace, due to their mass networking capabilities. As learning consultants, we need to take a tip from the social media craze, and determine ways to leverage it in our online courses.
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Key social learning resources: Part 11 #sociallearning
Jane Hart
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
My weekly Monday round-up of key social learning resources was interrupted last week by my Top 100 Tools 2011 posting , but this week we are back on track with a five more valuable articles and postings. 1 – First of all my Social Learning Community hosted on Yammer is still going strong – now with nearly 1,000 members.
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Evaluating Social Learning
Dashe & Thomson
JULY 6, 2011
There are people looking at applying the Kirkpatrick model, there are people measuring the use of social learning tools, and there are people talking about something similar to Brinkerhoff’s Success Case Method. and his take on using Kirkpatrick’s four levels to create and evaluate social learning. Learning Process.
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Drivers of Yammer use in the corporate sector
E-Learning Provocateur
JUNE 17, 2012
Yammer has been quite a success at my workplace. Every so often I’m asked by a peer at another company what they can do to increase the use of Yammer in their own organisation. Every so often I’m asked by a peer at another company what they can do to increase the use of Yammer in their own organisation.
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Supporting social learning in the workplace (online workshop)
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 21, 2016
Social learning is not a new concept or a new term; we’ve always learned socially – from our parents, siblings, friends and from our colleagues at work. But a new definition of social learning has emerged in recent years; one that implies the use of social technology for learning.
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Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 21, 2016
Social learning is not a new concept or a new term; we’ve always learned socially – from our parents, siblings, friends and from our colleagues at work. But a new definition of social learning has emerged in recent years; one that implies the use of social technology for learning.
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Social Learning Fear Factor
ATD Learning Technologies
FEBRUARY 23, 2014
When thinking through the design of training programs, learning and development (L&D) teams should not overlook the power of the community, but embrace it. Allison Michaels from Yammer Education Services explains why L&D needs to get over its fear of social learning. Click here to read full version.'
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Webinar Recap: How Yammer Uses Mindflash For Training
Mindflash
MAY 13, 2013
On Thursday, May 9, Mindflash hosted a webinar to discuss how Yammer uses Mindflash to conduct training. It was a very informative webinar, and I thought I would recap some of the highlights so you can learn how to use Mindflash and Yammer together to develop and deliver training in your organization. What Yammer Found.
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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.
Dashe & Thomson
APRIL 12, 2011
Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning? Only recently has the training industry begun to tap into this realm of informal, social learning. I argued that they were both dead wrong.
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Using an ESN for social learning (upcoming social online workshop)
Jane Hart
OCTOBER 4, 2015
Next public online workshop runs: 12 OCTOBER – 6 NOVEMBER 2015 Many organisations have now adopted an Enterprise Social Network (ESN) like Yammer, Jive, Socialcast of Chatter to underpin collaborative working in the organisation.
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Using an ESN for social learning (upcoming social online workshop)
Jane Hart
OCTOBER 4, 2015
Next public online workshop runs: 12 OCTOBER – 6 NOVEMBER 2015 Many organisations have now adopted an Enterprise Social Network (ESN) like Yammer, Jive, Socialcast of Chatter to underpin collaborative working in the organisation.
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Social and Learned Helplessness in Learning
Nick Leffler
NOVEMBER 3, 2014
It’s been a few weeks since I first wrote about Learned Helplessness in Learning but it hasn’t once left my mind. That sounds familiar to Learned Helplessness in Learning. That sounds familiar to Learned Helplessness in Learning. So this time I’m exploring social as a solution to the problem.
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What is social learning?
From the Coleface
MARCH 13, 2012
Last week I attended #SLCONF , a conference on social learning. Social learning is a zeitgeisty term which is very much in the early stages of the Gartner hype cycle for most organisations. I participated to find out more about what social learning is and what L&D practitioners should be doing about it/ with it.
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Can Learnist Hold the Key to Enterprise Social Learning?
Dashe & Thomson
OCTOBER 5, 2012
I really enjoy following the learning frontier, reading about and analyzing the latest developments in learning tools and methodologies. Augmented reality has a potential to revolutionize learning because of its ability to overlay helpful information not normally seen by the naked eye onto the objects we view.
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Social Media vs. Social Learning
Integrated Learnings
JANUARY 30, 2011
As a learning professional, I have been pondering this question a lot. This has included reading some books, attending some webinars, and talking with other learning professionals about how they are making social media work in a learning environment. 3-- Create an Alumni group. 3-- Create an Alumni group.
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Using your Enterprise Social Network for Social Workplace Learning
Jane Hart
JULY 7, 2014
Online workshop takes place 14 July – 15 August 2014 Many organisations have now adopted an Enterprise Social Network (ESN) like Yammer, Jive, Socialcast or Chatter to provided the infrastructure for collaborative working in the business. Social learning'
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198 Enabling and supporting workplace learning on your Enterprise Social Network
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
Next public online workshop takes place 29 September – 31 October 2014 Many organisations have now adopted an Enterprise Social Network like Yammer, Jive, Socialcast of Chatter to underpin collaborative working int he organisation. Social learning'
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Mindflash
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
You can build social interactions into your eLearning courses by integrating Yammer with Mindflash. Yammer has been a long time Mindflash customer, and they use both Mindflash and Yammer in many of their training programs to create people-to-people interactions. Blended, Social, Whatever. Uncategorized yammer'
Social Learning: how to create a Corporate Culture
MobileTrain
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
Recently, people asked me to give a keynote speech on social learning and a debate afterwards. When can we use social learning? Is our company’s culture ready for social learning? People used them more than traditional ways of formal learning. This lets you stimulate the total learning process.
Three Things You Can Do to Increase Social Learning Participation
Mindflash
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
The problem with anything social (social media, enterprise social, social learning) is the 90-9-1 rule which states that 90% of people will not participate. This might not be a problem in social media as a whole, but it is a problem in corporate learning when we want 100% participation. .
8 Ways to Add Mobile and Social Learning to the Virtual Learning Mix
ATD Learning Technologies
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
If you are delivering training in the face-to-face or virtual classroom, think about reinforcing the key skills and behaviors you want your participants to use on the job with mobile and social learning modalities. Here are some ideas to prepare learners and reinforce learning transfer and application.
Why your Enterprise Social Network is your most valuable social learning platform
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
This is the article I wrote for the January edition of Inside Learning Technologies magazine. It is an extract from my recent book, Modern Workplace Learning: A resource guide for L&D. In the workplace, social learning comes through social collaboration.
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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning
Kapp Notes
JANUARY 24, 2011
Here is a table with some tools for social learning, short description of the tool, the best use for social learning for the tool and some examples. Links to resources, peer-to-peer learning. Social Bookmarking. Definition of the tool. Best Use of Tool. A wiki is a self-organizing knowledge web site.
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Learning Solutions Series: Social Learning Appealing, but Not Widely Used
InsiderHub
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
Over the course of the last few years, there’s been a lot of conversation about “social” learning and its rise in popularity. However, the application of social learning is slow, and may not even take off at all, over the long term. What is social learning, and will we see more of it in coming years?
How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.
Dashe & Thomson
MAY 11, 2011
The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. A lot of the Social Media Mavens , however, are really ranting, not about the technology, but about the human dynamics related to social networking. These tools give us a way to connect with people faster and more easily than ever before.
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180 The Importance of Informal Learning at the Workplace
Origin Learning
MAY 22, 2018
Earlier blog posts have stressed on how workplace learning has evolved over the years and L&D managers are re-inventing the wheel to meet the demands of the ‘millennial audience’. In this blog post, we examine ‘informal learning’ and see how it can play a major role in modern workplace learning. 20% of learning is social.
8 Ways to Add Mobile and Social Learning to the Virtual Learning Mix
ATD Learning Technologies
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
If you are delivering training in the face-to-face or virtual classroom, think about reinforcing the key skills and behaviors you want your participants to use on the job with mobile and social learning modalities. Here are some ideas to prepare learners and reinforce learning transfer and application.
Practical Ways Social Learning Can Enhance Formal Learning
Mindflash
OCTOBER 22, 2012
In a recent Chief Learning Office Magazine article, How to Create a Dynamic Social Learning Space , Julian Stodd makes the point that social learning is not a replacement for formal learning, but a “supplement” to it. Social learning is happening in our organizations already.
The current top 5 highest-rated social learning solutions on CollectMyThoughts
InsiderHub
MARCH 30, 2015
In the world of online learning, some organizations are choosing to incorporate a “social” aspect to their platforms and programs, also sometimes described as “collaborative” learning. Here are the current top 5 highest-rated social learning systems on CollectMyThoughts , as rated by users: 5. Mobile learning.
From “learning technologies” to “social technologies”
Jane Hart
JUNE 14, 2012
Social technologies now play a big part in everything we do, and it is quite clear that many knowledge workers use a variety of social tools and networks not only to help them get work done, but also to learn efficiently while on the job. Member profiling. Activity streams.
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Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles
Tony Karrer
MARCH 24, 2010
In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying “I don’t get it” – to feeling like it’s a good addition to my Learning Tool Set. I thought it would be worthwhile to pull together these resources.
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Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 18, 2016
On Friday 23rd September, voting closes in the 10th Annual Survey of Learning Tool – so it’s not too late to vote! You can find out how to do so HERE – essentially it involves sharing your own Top 10 Tools for Learning – anonymously or publicly. It’s the first place I go to when I wake up in the morning.
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Three Simple Ways to Get Started with Social Learning
Mindflash
JUNE 13, 2012
Social learning a lot of us hear a lot these days — we know, vaguely, what it is, and we know that it’s happening, whether we like it or not, every day. And yet the vast majority of our money and energy goes toward formal training programs, not these social, off-the-cuff initiatives. What is Social Learning, Again?
Attract and Retain Millennial Employees with LMS Collaborative Learning Features
TOPYX LMS
MARCH 9, 2017
He wrote, “ While many offices struggle to get their workforce to embrace new services like Yammer or Basecamp, millennials have been doing those things for years. They’ve been learning with social classroom tools and chatting on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram every waking hour.
Part 1: Creating a Social Learning Environment
OpenSesame
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
Social learning. I participated in a webinar a few weeks ago in which the speaker used “social learning” and “social media” interchangeably, creating a confusing mishmash of misinformation. Social learning is knowledge acquisition that occurs in communication between people. Tools for Social Learning.
The Modern Workplace Learning Challenge
Jane Hart
AUGUST 21, 2016
Modern Workplace Learning doesn’t just mean modernizing training and e-learning, but radically changing the way you think about and support learning in the organisation. Run learning campaigns and challenges. Support continuous social learning. Empower employee-led learning. Introduction to MWL.
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Mindflash
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
In a previous blog post, I wrote about practical ways to get started in social learning. However, social learning does not have to be part of a class. In fact, one of the main advantages of social learning is that it occurs whether there are training classes or not. First of all, the key is to start small.
The MWL (Modern Workplace Learning) Association
Jane Hart
OCTOBER 15, 2015
The MWL (Modern Workplace Learning) Association is intended for workplace learning practitioners who want to discuss the concepts and ideas behind my Modern Workplace Learning book, as well as share their ideas, thoughts and experiences with others.
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Jane Hart
OCTOBER 15, 2015
The MWL (Modern Workplace Learning) Association is intended for workplace learning practitioners who want to discuss the concepts and ideas behind my Modern Workplace Learning book, as well as share their ideas, thoughts and experiences with others.
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Jane Hart
JUNE 19, 2016
Many believe that traditional classroom training as well as “click-next” e-learning courses are both ineffective and unappealing. Learning Campaigns and Learning Challenges are two new approaches to training that take place over an extended period of time and involve a mix of resources and/or real-world activities.
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Using Social Media to Drive Social Learning
ATD Learning Technologies
JANUARY 14, 2016
The ATD and i4cp study Instructional Design Now: A New Age of Learning and Beyond reported in early 2015 that social learning was in use by fewer than three in 10 organizations. Here’s a look at the full results: Make access to social learning easy and fast; 68%.
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