Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

Because of its blended nature – formal course content with informal and social learning woven around it – MOOCs cannot be a top down endeavour. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 29, 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. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 8, 2015

Here are a couple of things that MOOCs are NOT : A MOOC is NOT an on-line course with a discussion forum and a couple of other “social features” tagged on to it. A level of comfort with social tools and norms (discussion forums, blogging, micro-bloggging). The other social aspects of liking and rating add to the engagement level.

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Learnnovators

JULY 6, 2015

WOL is a Mindset, an Attitude – Working out loud is not dependent on an individual’s savviness with various social sharing platforms. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger. And cooperation is the key. It’s a mindset.

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Learnnovators

JANUARY 10, 2016

Social learning via an enterprise collaboration platform. MOOCs which straddle the line between social learning and e-learning with learner communities. It leverages the powers of networks and social platforms, and the affordances of mobile and cloud to build an interconnected and continuously learning organization.

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Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

What working out loud requires is for us to collectively go back to the days when we swapped stories sitting around a fire, the only difference being that the fire has been replaced by a participative medium like a social collaboration platform, communities of diverse individuals and a global mindshare.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

Because of its blended nature – formal course content with informal and social learning woven around it – MOOCs cannot be a top down endeavour. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger. Power of Diversity. Published on 22-Jun-2015.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 19, 2015

Even onboarding new employees is becoming a social and experiential learning journey. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger. Working out loud. On the job. Written by our Guest Blogger, Sahana Chattopadhyay. Published on 20-Apr-2015.

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Learnnovators

JULY 20, 2015

Learnnovators: In this age where PR has greatly transformed with the power of social media networking, how significant is it still for organizations to rely on external professional PR services such as yours vis-à-vis building in-house PR capability to build brand and customer relationships? Social learning and curation.

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Learnnovators

JANUARY 8, 2015

How do you think existing learning models need to evolve further to support workplace and social learning? Today’s workforce learns more from workplace (on-the-job) learning experiences and social sharing than from formal training interventions. My graduate school advisor was a specialist in research on creativity.

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Cognology

AUGUST 8, 2016

New hires arrive to find their requested PCs, personal devices, and systems all set up and ready to go; but it’s the developers’ boot camp that really won the day for the social media goliath. New hires are greeted on their first day by any specialist tools they need, a new iMac, and a t-shirt with ‘class of’ and the year of joining.

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Learnnovators

JANUARY 7, 2015

How do you think existing learning models need to evolve further to support workplace and social learning? Today’s workforce learns more from workplace (on-the-job) learning experiences and social sharing than from formal training interventions. My graduate school advisor was a specialist in research on creativity.

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Instructional Design Authorware Blended Learning ADDIE 145

TechSmith Camtasia

JANUARY 29, 2015

In 2011, our freshmen class received the first batch of laptops. The day of the conference we had multiple workshops on topics such as how to utilize social media to create a positive digital identity to ways to do the same using video media. This change didn’t happen overnight.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 1, 2015

The technological affordances of social and mobile add to the ability to provide an ecosystem of continuous and pervasive learning. Organizations are beginning to realize this and are seeking to shift their learning strategy to more fluid and dynamic methodologies like MOOCs, social and informal learning. MSL 3): Across time.

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Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The premise of this post is that when an organization makes a conscious effort to move towards a more social way of doing business, it usually begins with the introduction of an enterprise collaboration platform. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 1, 2015

The technological affordances of social and mobile add to the ability to provide an ecosystem of continuous and pervasive learning. Organizations are beginning to realize this and are seeking to shift their learning strategy to more fluid and dynamic methodologies like MOOCs, social and informal learning. MSL 3): Across time.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 15, 2015

They will expect and demand to learn differently — social, mobile and cloud will play a big role. Social, mobile, and collaboration will be everything (almost). Reinforce learning through critical social learning conversations and collaboration. And it is time to start equipping them to fulfil their potential.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

This thought was triggered by David Kelly’s presentation – Social Media, Social Learning, and Curation where he highlights the role each of the social tools/platform can play in our sharing and learning. I find various boards on topics as disparate as social business to visual thinking very useful.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 15, 2015

They will expect and demand to learn differently — social, mobile and cloud will play a big role. Social, mobile, and collaboration will be everything (almost). Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger. Published on 15-Jun-2015.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 27, 2015

This was just an example to show that micro-learning, with some careful consideration and design thinking, can be a critical part of workplace learning in various forms – informal and formal and also social and collaborative. It can happen anytime, anywhere, in any form – synchronously, asynchronously, and semi-synchronously.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 26, 2015

This was just an example to show that micro-learning, with some careful consideration and design thinking, can be a critical part of workplace learning in various forms – informal and formal and also social and collaborative. The diagram below captures some of the forms of micro-learning: Written by our Guest Blogger, Sahana Chattopadhyay.

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Learnnovators

MAY 18, 2015

I recently wrote about the challenges of integrating social learning in the workplace. 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. ” ([link].

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Learnnovators

APRIL 14, 2015

Siri , the quirky and intelligent personal assistant has been an integral part of the Apple iOS since October, 2011. On March 1, 2011, IBM announced the IBM SmartCloud framework to support Smarter Planet.” (And as weird as it sounds, I am finding it difficult to write Watson with a lower case “w”).

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Learnnovators

APRIL 14, 2015

Siri , the quirky and intelligent personal assistant has been an integral part of the Apple iOS since October, 2011. On March 1, 2011, IBM announced the IBM SmartCloud framework to support Smarter Planet.” – Wikipedia. (And as weird as it sounds, I am finding it difficult to write Watson with a lower case “w”).

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

“Digital mindset” seems to have become another buzzword–rather buzz-phrase to be grammatically precise–whenever the conversation (online or offline) veers toward social business, social learning, collaboration, and other 21st Century phenomenon in general. I have noted down my cumulative understanding here.

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Learnnovators

JULY 29, 2015

Increasingly the human workforce will have to take on the unstructured work that requires skills like judgement, decision making, pattern sensing, emotional intelligence, social intelligence, and more. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger.

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Learnnovators

MAY 24, 2015

With the rise of MOOCs, we are also likely to see social, collaborative learning take root in organizations. They can probably learn via more informal and social means—both synchronous and asynchronous. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 19, 2016

The digital five forces – Social Media, Big Data, Mobility and Pervasive Computing, Cloud, and AI and Robotics – are disintermediating, disrupting and deconstructing the old world order. What is often happening are piecemeal and fragmented approach at attempts to use Big Data or Social Media or the affordances of the Cloud.

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

I have written before about the fallibility of trying to have social learning as a bolt-on strategy , on the role of social technology as an avenue for building communities in organizations , and the importance of building communities to facilitate emergent learning. Yet, this is where organizations are struggling.

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Learnnovators

MAY 25, 2015

With the rise of MOOCs, we are also likely to see social, collaborative learning take root in organizations. They can probably learn via more informal and social means—both synchronous and asynchronous. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger.

Blended Learning 100

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