ID Reflections

MARCH 5, 2014

Click on the image to see an enlarged version Jane Hart has written a series of blog posts on Learning Flow which she describes as a “… continuous steady stream of social micro-learning activities – accessible from the web and mobile devices”. This is directly evident in the MOOC phenomenon as seen on Coursera or EdX.

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AUGUST 13, 2011

And my own foray into the world of social media with Twitter. Learning--especially in today's workplace beset with complexity, rapid change, and new challenges--as we knew it was changing. It had to change for an organization to survive. The age of social learning is here. Powered by enterprise2.0

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APRIL 27, 2010

This social learning layer will integrate with SkillSoft's Book 24X7, a vast repository of technical and IT-related literature that many organizations use as off-the-shelf content to enable their employees. John Ambrose in his post Social Learning Will Fill Enterprise 2.0’s

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

The other piece is from The Post-Hierarchical Organization by +Harold Jarche Complex problems cannot be solved alone. Unfortunately, the traditional training model that organizations boasted of and even espoused as one of the employee benefits is broken, and we are faced with complexities at multiple levels.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 11, 2014

Organizations want skills and competences, not bits of paper.” MOOCs--for all the debate, angst and confusion surrounding them--have changed the face of online education and learning for good. MOOCs have the potential to incorporate micro-learning components, learning flows , and social learning aspects like discussion forums.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Will we still continue to speak about learning as an activity to be undertaken in order to be effective at work? Or will work itself subsume learning enabled by a transformed L&D / facilitators / coaches / mentors and the "right" organizational culture? Some of the principle drivers and needs around collaboration are given below.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 25, 2014

Most organizations (hopefully) have accepted that learning is crucial to their strategy for growth and performance, and if done right, has a direct impact on the bottom line. However, the flipside is that training and other forms of structured, top down learning—the pillars of organizational learning so far—are tottering.

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

To quote Charles Darwin: It is becoming evident that be it organizations or individuals, those who are adaptive, agile, and open to learning are the ones who will survive. However, the truth is that most organizations find themselves eminently unprepared to meet this changing state of being.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 2, 2009

As John Seely Brown says, ~Instead of “ I think therefore I am ”, it is “We participate and therefore we are” ~ Social learning has always been around. And has probably been one of the most effective means of learning as Bandura and Vygotsky had said long back. We turned toward our colleague or friend to ask for help when stuck.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2009

(Interesting, provocative post from Venkatesh Rao on this point: [link] ) Wikipedia has an interesting definition for the word “social.” The term Social refers to a characteristic of living organisms (humans in particular, though biologists also apply the term to populations of animals and insects).

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ID Reflections

JUNE 5, 2009

Social networks are bringing people together; that's why learning takes place. Organizations and Informal Learning: 1. Four to five times more learning happens in informal training within organizations when compared to formal training.

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JANUARY 28, 2015

The diagram illustrates some of the possible approaches to creating our PLN within an organization. Learning networks are based on the theory of Connectivism, or learning from diverse social webs. Collaboration organizational learning pkm PLN social learning'

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ID Reflections

MAY 22, 2015

I happened to mention " working out loud " as a practice that is fundamental to social and collaborative learning, and drew a completely blank stare. While "social learning" as a phrase, concept and strategy is fairly well-known by now, the concept of "working out loud" hasn't yet garnered that level of popularity.

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

In this post, I am going to focus on what IMHO are requirements and demands from MOOC participants and organizations looking to go the MOOC way. Having said this, I also understand that MOOC as a design methodology is flexible and can be crafted to suit an organization''s needs, culture and context.

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Hence, these require learners to "pull" their own learning. For organizations, this has a direct implication and reflects the motivation employees feel, the autonomy they enjoy and the purpose they find in their work. Often, this proves to be a great opportunity to build one''s PLN within an organization and to form weak ties.

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Perceptive leaders keen on facilitating collaboration and helping their teams and organizations move toward a collaborative mode of working, would do well to focus on these aspects. Related articles Harold Jarche " The Evolving Social Organization (internettime.posterous.com). The Evolving Social Organization (jarche.com).

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ID Reflections

MAY 16, 2010

Giving organizations the wake up call! The diagram below is the classic one showing the different stages of an organization's growth and the applicability of good and best practices vis a vis the need to develop emergent and novel practices. have been talking about it, writing about it, warning folks to take heed. Sounds idealistic?

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ID Reflections

MARCH 13, 2011

As far back as 1973, he spoke about how interaction in small groups aggregate to form large-scale patterns, in short, the theory of emergence that every complex system—organism or organization—display. Alex and Sam work in the same organization. This unawareness does not bode well for an organization.

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MAY 25, 2015

Organizations like Google and Apple have become such talent communities attracting the best of the best in their areas of expertise. Given that the organization culture encourages sharing and transparency, it still takes some effort to create a community space that is safe. What Makes Working Out Loud Easy 1. Is there fear of ridicule?

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 20, 2010

The book is divided into the following key sections: Working Smarter Informal Learning Social Learning The Business Case Develop your Elevator Pitch Cheat Sheets Instructional Design 2.0 This post is by no means a comprehensive review/synthesis of the book but a snippet to give readers a hint of its flavor.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 1, 2010

Semantic Web for dummies What did I learn: The relation between Symbols , Syntax and Semantics and how this will change/is changing the nature of the web and our interaction with it.In What did I learn: Defines with nice clarity the 4 kinds of work in an organization--.Simple, When should we Collaborate?

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ID Reflections

APRIL 22, 2010

Sara Ford uses a wonderful, visual analogy for Agile that is a brilliant fit for scoping of training needs in today’s business organizations. How I Learned to Program Manage an Agile Team after 6 years of Waterfall (Sue Ford) 3. Social Learning in the Workplace = New Toolset + New Mindset + New Skillset (Jane Hart) 5.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2010

PKM: our part of the social learning contract Creating good content on a platform that lets users (teachers & learners) add context may be the the real killer application in education. The reach and depth of our connections become critical in helping us make sense of our environment and to solve problems. ~

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Social media (the organic mass of thinking, living, breathing human beings) will catch you and make you an outcast. As in all successful relationships, engaging with social media requires us to be patient, caring, respectful, and most of all, giving. We are building relationships—of trust, of intellectual bonding, of respect.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

In ten years, mobile learning moved from being a “buzz word” and “yet-another-technology-hype” to a medium of learning and performance support that is here to stay. Institutions are now opening up to mlearning and corporate organizations are asking for it, as the examples below will illustrate.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 25, 2015

All of these are putting organizations and individuals in a tough spot. There is an urgent need to re-imagine workplace learning for the networked world. Organizations can no longer hope to recruit experienced people and expect they will have the necessary skills.

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

In this post, I want to highlight the importance of community management as a discipline that can enable organizations to take on the challenges and complexities of the future of work. The role of a connector is crucial in creating business value for the organization and is a skill all community managers need to hone.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 31, 2015

It is critical not only understand the drivers behind this sudden surge but also how it can be implemented in workplace learning strategy. The reality is that individuals and organizations are looking for options to keep on top of things in the easiest possible manner. Is that a good thing or bad is the topic for another post.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

The formal education system still functions as it always did churning out graduates ill-equipped to meet the demands of the current day organizations. Millennials will soon rule the world: But how will they lead is an incisive article by @Josh_Bersin on the way Gen Y views the world of work, leadership, career progression and learning.

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ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2014

For now, I am focusing back on my other passion outside of traveling—workplace learning, enabling performance and social learning. Going back to the future work skills mentioned above, there are two aspects to this: Do organizations realize that these are the skills they have to help their employees to acquire?

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ID Reflections

MAY 17, 2010

Preamble Yesterday, I received a note from Harvard Business Publishing with a request to review their article, Our Take on Social Learning Tools. If Harvard ManageMentor can provide the framework and facilitate organizations with the necessary technological support to create such an environment, it will be a goal worth achieving.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 7, 2014

I will skip the use cases for now and stick to a more generic discussion of how MOOCs can be designed to facilitate workplace performance, just-in-time learning, and collaboration. However, organizations are not yet ready – and perhaps with good reason – to completely let go of training and let people learn as they work.

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ID Reflections

JULY 9, 2015

A bit more conscious thinking behind why, when and how we use these platforms can transform our daily meandering interactions into purposeful habits around learning, sharing and community building. When is it most useful to use SlideShare?

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ID Reflections

APRIL 27, 2015

Even as I was mulling over the topic and browsing through Dion Hinchcliffe's posts for insights on social business, I had a moment of epiphany. Social Learning and social business go hand in hand. To facilitate social learning, an organization has to become a social business first.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 17, 2016

This is one of the most inclusive descriptions that captures the various threads and reasons for building communities in organizations. Yet, this is where organizations are struggling. Proliferating Platforms - Organizations, especially large, globally distributed organizations suffer from what I call the "unconscious silo syndrome".

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

The OpenStack project intended to help organizations offer cloud-computing services running on standard hardware. The nature of organizations with their hierarchical structure is already giving way to more networked and democratic workplaces. Talent will exist in pools and not necessarily belong to one specific organization.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 12, 2015

The overarching requirement is to develop workers who think for themselves, who can drive their own learning and are not restrained by the norms and processes of the past. Certain skills will become fundamental to thriving in future organizations. Unfortunately organizations have been created with efficiency in mind.

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