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Do you brag about your personal learning network?

The Learning Circuits

Social media and mobile technologies have turned the spotlight on social learning concepts, which in turn have made more of us think about the large, ill-charted dark matter of culture : informal learning. Maybe you're having trouble convincing your boss that her task force is not a community of practice.

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PKM is our part of the social learning contract

Jane Hart

Whereas most people are concerning themselves with the new social and collaboration technologies, or how to get people to collaborate, for me the key to successful social learning is how the individual engages in his/her networks and contributes what s/he has learned or is learning along the way.

PKM 196
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Re-imagining Work & Learning in a Networked World

ID Reflections

Will we still continue to speak about learning as an activity to be undertaken in order to be effective at work? Or will work itself subsume learning enabled by a transformed L&D / facilitators / coaches / mentors and the "right" organizational culture? How do we as L&D tackle this? Only adults doing their work.

Network 202
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Content is a tyrant.

Learning with e's

Highly digitally literate individuals are able to communicate effectively across several platforms without loss of power or nuance. Knowledge comes about through learning and through the diligent application of information. Yet connecting into a community of practice can work as a double edged sword.

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Is it time for a BYOL (Bring Your Own Learning) strategy in your organization? #BYOL

Jane Hart

My previous blog post that revealed that around 70% of respondents in my recent survey found training (including e-learning) “unimportant” or only “somewhat important” has generated quite a bit of interest. Performance is key; it’s not about the learning per se but what they can do as a result of all their learning activities.

PKM 210
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Is all learning social?

Learning with e's

Even a tool such as a book, when read by a solo reader, socially mediates learning. The reader in effect has an internal conversation with himself (thinking) which is shaped through reading text that has been written by a knowledgeable other person - the author. They are infused with social meaning. Even consciousness is social.

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How to go about a multi-generational approach to e-learning

Matrix

Baby Boomers and Gen Zs for one, seem to have absolutely nothing in common and yet learning specialists are faced with the task of providing both these generations — along with the ones between them — with access to valuable educational materials, suited for their very diverse (and quite often divergent) needs and preferences.