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.

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'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

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.

As a follow on to the discussion of social learning and formal learning in Long Live … great post by BJ Schone - Have LMSs Jumped The Shark? I constantly hear people (across many organizations) complain about their learning management system (LMS). Did I miss anything?) We’ve recently seen LMSs shift to include more functionality, such as wikis, blogs, social networking, etc. They complain that their LMS has a terrible interface that is nearly unusable. Upgrades are difficult and cumbersome.

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:

Kevin Jones and I did our “Overcoming Top 10 Objections to Social Learning” webinar earlier this week, and it was a total blast.  Tags: Community Social Learning Social Media Social Network Analysis Talent Management Wisdom of Crowd Great conversation with participants via chat; lots of great back and forth with Kevin. If you weren’t able to make it, the archive is below - slides and audio. 

SMBs & Social Media (Sum Total) Most attending work in L&D with some HR, IT, and learning services providers Current learning delivery channels primarily ILT classroom and ILT online as well as a fair amount of self-paced e-learning. Goals pretty evenly spread among rapid e-learning (consumption and development), reduce costs, support informal learning, improve Here are slides from the presentation I did yesterday. The session was hosted by SumTotal Systems.

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.

I recently did quite a bit of updating of the C4LPT Guide to Social Learning, so thought it was worth posting about it again here. Here's the contents list: Introduction From e-learning to social learning What is social media? Examples of social media in learning Social media media and 5 types of learning - Pt 1 Social media and 5