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:

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 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.  Learning needs - differences between the learning needs or demand between “formal” and “social” learning (are some skills best learnt formally?), Tagged: measurement, social learning, socialnetworking 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.

It's amazing to think we are already talking about the "history" of social media, but I've been collecting a few articles that demonstrate how in fact today's tools which might seem revolutionary are just evolutionary: Back in June 2009, Social Media Rockster ran a posting: A brief history of social media , which began "Social quot;Social media isn’t really “new.” While it has only recently become part of

Our office has been receiving numerous requests to help incorporate social media tools into a variety of communication and education projects. Our clients want help creating blogs, wikis, collaborative workspaces, and social networks. But we also have to be frank and point out that if you create a social networking space, there is no guarantee that it will be used. We’ve responded with cautious optimism. We’re always happy when our clients want to try out something new with technology.

I followed the link and found myself entranced by Mike VanDervort’s Confronting Social Media at Work .  It’s a great blog post that warns HR professionals about the need to get ready for the social media invasion.  Those Those who left comments about the post asked “how do you communicate the importance of social media to a leadership group that has no concept of its relevance in their personal or professional lives?”  Yesterday I received a tweet about a great blog post.  8221;  I get this type of question all the time. 

Social Networking Advantages: Tags: social media collaboration blogging Searching RSS Social Learning SIG Email Wik I don’t know who to credit this to, but I love it. It has been posted so many times that the originator is lost. But, THANK YOU!

At DevLearn, many people lamented the difficulty of explaining the benefits of social media to their managers and peers. Jane mined the submissions of her delightful tools database and came up with 100+ ways to use social media for learning . She covers blogs, collaborative calendaring, podcasting, feeds, collaborative mind-mapping, microblogging, photo sharing, screencast sharing, presentation sharing, video sharing, social bookmarking, collaborative editing We talked about building a repository of web 2.0 learning applications.

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. There's a fair amount

The way she build her course is a great example of combining several relevant Social media to enhance a course. Thanks to the great College20 community started by Eduardo Peirano, I could read a post by Alejandra Pickett that really blew my mind. If you are a member of the College20 community, feel free to immediately surf to her post . (btw