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Social Learning Ought to be Story-Sharing: "Friends You Haven't Met Yet"

Vignettes Learning

"People are social beings, and our brains are wired to connect with each other," Matthew D. Lieberman writes in his book, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect. However, when it comes to traditional practices related to training and learning programs, we tend to slam on the brakes regarding social interaction.

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Digital literacy 6: Organising and sharing content

Learning with e's

The very act of creating content, whether it is a video, blogpost or podcast, is often with the intention that it will be shared in some way, usually on the web. Now we have the social web, there are more ways than ever to make your content available to a vast audience. Answer - you organise it by 'tagging' it.

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Resistance is futile

Learning with e's

I have learnt from my research that there are - and always will be - people who are resistant or reticent, because new technologies have the potential to disrupt and challenge the social and professional roles into which they have habituated. The same can be said for the participative Web.

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Convergence Learning

The Learning Circuits

Flow Flows are not just one element of social organization, they are the expression of the processes dominating our economic, social and symbolic life - Manual Castells in The Rise of Network Society. The role of social networks is essential to successful learning in enterprises.

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Evolution of L&D - Some more thoughts

ID Reflections

Moreover, enable workers to use social tools to develop their own PLNs – within and outside of the organization. Be a facilitator/enabler : Help employees find what/who they need to solve their immediate problem. Partner with HR : While L&D is a part of HR, we often tend to forget that.