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Social Learning: to be or not to be?

Jane Hart

The term Social Learning (big S, big L) has been used to describe the use of social media in learning for quite a few years now, so why we have seen the recent spate of blog postings expressing concern about the fact? and Learning 2.0. and Learning 2.0. at the end of every word.

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Business Exceptions Are Not Always What They Seem

Skilful Minds

Common wisdom among thought leaders who examine learning in organizations notes that most of the learning that occurs is done informally, or socially. However, informal learning has its own limitations that we all need to keep in mind as we think through the ways in which it adds value to business processes.

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Informal Learning 2.0

Jay Cross

Published in Chief Learning Officer, August 2009. Informal Learning 2.0. In the world of business, the era of networks is crowding out the Industrial Age. In sum, networks are ushering in new ways of doing business. Corporate approaches to learning have to change, as well. Collaboration rules.

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Learnable Services, CRM, and Social Business Design

Skilful Minds

Marketing, especially social media marketing, and learning are both essential components of a dialogue strategy for customer experience design and management. A dialogue strategy builds on the assumption that companies learn more from customers when customers learn from them, and doing so benefits both.

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Shaping Social Business Ecosystems as Learnscapes

Skilful Minds

The emergence of social media provides people inside and outside organizations with a way to actively speak about, speak to, and engage the product and service offerings of enterprises. Enterprises, on the other hand, listen to, engage, and act on insights gained from social media. Social Networks Web 2.0

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Scalable Learning and Learnscapes in Social Business Design

Skilful Minds

Thinking in terms of learnscapes implies a strategic approach to supporting and managing informal learning through social computing, as opposed to using social computing in an ad hoc fashion. e-Learning 2.0 Big Shift elearning 2.0 Tags: Change Management Collaboration Enterprise 2.0

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Social Learning, Collaboration, and Team Identity

Skilful Minds

Its focus was on the importance of social software applications in the Enterprise to the ability of distributed project team members to recognize who is on their team at any point in time, and who isn't. Learning Experience Social Networks Web 2.0 e-Learning 2.0