The Social Learning Community
Jane Hart
MARCH 8, 2011
Yesterday I launched the Social Learning Community – a new Community of Practice intended for those interested in the use of social media to work and learn smarter.
Get up to speed with social media, social learning and social business
Jane Hart
JANUARY 27, 2012
At the Social Learning Centre I am going to be hosting a number of short online “programmes” about social media, social learning and social business. Rather the programmes will be hosted in dedicated group spaces on the Social Learning Centre (which is powered by a social and collaboration platform).
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7 Challenges to Social Learning
Origin Learning
OCTOBER 28, 2014
Social Learning is a self-propagating concept, that is- once a social learning culture is achieved in an organization. Here we try to enlist the top challenges which hinder social learning from becoming a reality in organizations: 1. Social learning is more of an abstract concept. Garnering support from seniors.
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Social Learning in Business: Online Workshop
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 14, 2013
This workshop runs 1-31 March 2013 at the Social Learning Centre, and is led by Harold Jarche. The workshop will look at ways to enhance social learning, or people learning together while working. The Agenda will include an optional introductory webinar and cover four key areas: Social learning: The lubricant for social business.
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Exploring Social Learning and Smarter Working (eLearning Guild Webinar) #inttime
Learning Visions
MARCH 30, 2011
These are my live blogged notes from today’s eLearning Guild Webinars with members of the Internet Time Alliance (ITA): Harold Jarche, Charles Jennings, Clark Quinn, Jane Hart, Jay Cross Exploring Social Learning and Smarter Working The questions for the session were sourced from the crowd. Moderate social communities.
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208 PKM is our part of the social learning contract
Jane Hart
APRIL 24, 2012
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.
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Communities of Practice Need Some Practice
Nick Leffler
FEBRUARY 14, 2015
Defining Communities of Practice (CoP). It’s hard to define a Community of Practice, but I think a good start would be to quote a Tweet I recently saw from another MSLOC430 participant. As long as you’re changing your practice, you know you’re in a community of practice.
Social Learning Has Its Place…And Informal Learning Does Too.
Dashe & Thomson
AUGUST 11, 2011
Two weeks ago Jane Hart wrote an article titled, Social Learning: to be or not to be? , in which Jane expresses her dislike of the term Social Learning (big S, big L). Jane claims that “Social Learning has come to refer exclusively to the use of social media in top-down, formal learning.” We’re not always social.
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Supporting the Social Workplace Learning Continuum
Jane Hart
JUNE 4, 2012
So one approach that I have been promoting is, instead of thinking of Formal and Informal Leaning as polar opposites, rather to think in terms of a Social Workplace Learning Continuum (as shown diagrammatically in the image on the right). But in order to support the full SWL Continuum, there are 5 points to take on board.
Measurement & ROI for Social & Network Learning
Experiencing eLearning
JUNE 18, 2009
These are my notes from the Learn Trends: Networked and Social Learning online mini-conference. Measurement & ROI for Social & Network Learning. Measurement & ROI for Social & Network Learning. How are you measuring social learning? This can be the social network. This is post 2 of 3.
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Social Learning: Key resources from January
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
Here is my pick of 10 articles about social learning since my last posting just before Christmas. … Informal learning and social learning are no doubt stealing the tarts. ” 3 - 10 enterprise social networking obstacles , the brainyard, Information Week 3 January 2012. Who Stole The Tarts?
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12 features of supporting social collaboration in the workplace
Jane Hart
AUGUST 31, 2012
I am often asked how to support social collaboration in the workplace. As I showed in my recent blog post , there are some big differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social/collaborative business. Want to find out more about PKM, then the Personal Knowledge Management workshop runs through September.
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The Angry Birds Community: Social Learning Utopia?
Dashe & Thomson
OCTOBER 3, 2011
That means more than 16,000 videos were contributed by members of the Angry Birds Community of Practice. Not because the videos aren’t all helpful, but because the motivation for participation is very different than that inside an enterprise social learning environment. Feedback] creates a sense of emotional support (e.g.,
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167 Key social learning resources: Part 4
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
This is the fourth and final instalment of my weekly articles curating key social learning resources for TrainingZone’s social learning month. It’s in our DNA to be social, it’s our nature and that life, uh. Clark Quinn in his latest blog post talks about the importance of Reflecting socially. finds a way.”
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Book review: Social media for trainers
Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
Hence I was thrilled to find Jane Bozarth's book: Social media for Trainers. I'm following a lot of social media buzz, a lot is by marketeers. Anyhow, the book is very practical and has lots of good tips. The opportunities to expand community conversations and personal learning networks are huge with social media.
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Brain science meets social media
Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
They interviewed various scientists and are translating new insights from brain science into practical consequences for organising effective learning situations. I'm working a lot with sociale media and communities of practice. An example: sleep is very important for processing new information and new stimuli.
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The differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social business
Jane Hart
AUGUST 27, 2012
Although a “social business” is powered by new social technologies, it is not the technology itself that makes the difference, it’s not about layering social approaches on the old industrial age thinking, but a fresh, new mindset and approach to working and learning. LEARNING IN A SOCIAL BUSINESS.
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Integrating Social Learning In The Workplace
Learnnovators
MAY 11, 2015
I have been writing about social learning and its related concepts – communities of practices , working out loud and skills for the networked world for quite some time now. The catch is that “social learning” cannot just be implemented or enforced. Social learning” cannot be assigned as one would a course or a module.
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176 Social Learning: August Pick of the Posts
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
The focus of my August Pick of the Posts is social learning, and these posts all include some great graphics too. In It’s Not About “Doing” Social Jane Bozarth (2 August) shows how Pokemon Go gets it right. Maybe it won’t be on the scale of Pokémon Go —few things ever will be—but this is what “ social learning ” is.
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Enterprise Community Management: “joining up” learning and working
Jane Hart
MARCH 18, 2013
More and more organisations are beginning to adopt enterprise social networking technologies (like Yammer) more formally as business tools, so there is a growing need for a dedicated resource to manage and support this activity – not technically but in human terms. planning the new community’s strategic approach.
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210 From Instructional Design to Enterprise Community Facilitation
ID Reflections
AUGUST 13, 2011
An instructional designer by profession who started her career anlayzing learner needs, creating micro-design documents, writing story-boards and discussing the nitty-gritty of course navigation with visual designers, I have long been interested in the power of social, collaborative and informal learning. The age of social learning is here.
Setting up an online community? Here’s my advice
Jane Hart
MAY 27, 2014
Communities of Practice have become a bit of buzzword in corporate training recently; everyone seems to be setting them up. I’ve been running online communities (of different types) for many years now, and it’s important to point out that it requires a different set of skills to set one up and support one than to [.].
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Lurking is Not a Static State
ID Reflections
JULY 20, 2011
I recalled some of the posts and articles I had read in the past about lurking as a behavior in online communities and what it indicated, and decided to dig through those again. At this point, I also "serendipitous-ly" stumbled upon a couple of conversations recently that touched upon lurking (this is why I love social media).
Blog Book Tour: Social Media for Trainers--stop #9
ID Reflections
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
With her focus on the main tools that have grabbed “global imagination” namely, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs and Wikis, Jane Bozarth writes a lucid, eminently readable account of what technology has to offer in terms of Social Media tools and their position in the sphere of learning. Imagine the ROI in this case.
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How to Create a Learning Culture in Organizations
The Performance Improvement Blog
JULY 5, 2012
One of these posts appears in Jane Hart’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. communities of practice). An integral part of everything that is done in the organization, supported by technology and social networks. Is there an app or social networking forum you can communicate through?
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Using a collaborative platform for brilliant learning
Jane Hart
JUNE 25, 2012
Present an overview of the key social features of social collaboration platforms. Demonstrate a number of examples of social activities she has set up. Propose a lite approach to designing social (learning) activities. In this webinar, Jane will. Explain the rationale behind this approach.
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189 LearnTrends: Microlearning
Experiencing eLearning
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
Very few companies have strategy for social media–many say it won’t work in their culture. Pathway to community; you have to be embedded in the community to help. Complex communities of practice where individual identity is constructed. Discussion of Communities of Practice vs. Networks.
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Piecing together collaboration and cooperation
Clark Quinn
JULY 3, 2012
In an insightful piece , Harold Jarche puts together how collaboration and cooperation are needed to make organizations work ‘smarter’, integrating workgroups with the broader social network by using communities of practice as the intermediary.
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189 Detailing the Coherent Organization
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
I had, as Harold’s original model provided the basis for, separate groups for Work Teams, Communities of Practice, and Social Networks. And in Social Networks I had put: share, contribute, listen, care, interact, and discuss values. Within each were separate elements.
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174 Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 3 Knowledge Formation
Infopro Learning
MAY 24, 2016
This is a period of learning in which establishing communities of practice is especially beneficial. Prior to joining InfoPro, Kyle served as a research associate on subjects including e-learning, online education, game-based learning, and social media usage in higher education at St. The Student Becomes the Teacher.
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Collaboration and community skills are the new workplace skills
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
But, as businesses transform into social businesses, the social workplace is going to become more and more reliant on these skills. But as for the new social and collaboration skills that workers require, well you simply can’t train people to be social!
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Recommended Reading Summary: A Chapter of “From Practice Fields to Communities of Practice”
Adobe Captivate
MARCH 28, 2019
Chapter 2: From Practice Fields to Communities of Practice by Sasha Barab and Thomas Duffy (2012). There are a range of opinions and positions within the constructivist and situativity communities regarding even the basic concepts laid out in this text. The setting must be social and collaborative.
Supporting self-managed team learning in the organisation
Jane Hart
MARCH 11, 2013
Considering whether any technology could underpin knowledge sharing, and if so identifying appropriate technologies, preferably employing existing collaboration technologies or enterprise social networking that are being used to underpin the work. Community manager skills – how to build and maintain a successful community of practice.
Inoculating the organization
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 9, 2012
I was having a discussion the other day with my ITA colleague Jay Cross, and the topic wandered over to how to use the social approaches we foster under the umbrella of the Coherent Organization to help organizations become one. And I went feral. Do we work top down, or bottom up?
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154 Exploring Social and Community EdTech Tools and Apps
InSync Training
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
Last week, we looked at communication and interaction EdTech tools and apps. This week, we continue our series by diving deeper into social and community tools and apps. We use social media to share content, communicate, and interact. These social and community tools and apps can help us do just that.
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100 How to Create a Successful Community of Practice
CrossKnowledge
DECEMBER 5, 2018
<div class=”page-chapo”>Communities of practice have existed within organizations for many years, usually taking the form of a group of people gathering together to share knowledge, to motivate each other, and build their expertise.</div> How do communities of practice work?
7 big opportunities that MOOCs offer corporates
E-Learning Provocateur
JULY 29, 2013
In terms of supporting the moocers in the organisation, I envisage L&D pro’s undertaking activities such as facilitating communities of practice, setting up buddy programs, and organising external meetups. Networking. Participating in a MOOC forms connections with people outside of your organisation.
The Changing Face of Work and Workplace Learning
ID Reflections
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
Workers will use mobile devices including wearables to learn at the point of need, access their network and communities of practices to solve challenges, share user-generated content in response to the community needs or just to share their learning. future_of_work L&D social learning Workplace Learning'
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Re-imagining Work & Learning in a Networked World
ID Reflections
DECEMBER 28, 2014
As technological capability increases, the cloud becomes pervasive, and the power of social and mobile become progressively evident, these will transform the way we function. The five forces are: We are already feeling the impact of each of these, and it will increasingly become even more palpable.
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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture
The Performance Improvement Blog
JULY 31, 2014
Support social learning – In a learning culture, every aspect of the workplace supports continuous individual, team, and whole organization learning. It is a place where people are learning from each other and this is accepted practice. More effective, sustainable learning occurs in the normal course of doing the work.
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Three different views on social learning
Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning
JANUARY 15, 2018
I am not the first to note that social learning is a confusion concept. I joined one Friday when the topic was about social learning. Any Twitterchat is hard work but it was worst to make sense here because I noticed that we all talked with a different view on social learning. That's one of the views but not mine.
Can you engage introverts in social learning?
Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning
OCTOBER 5, 2016
How does this relate to social learning? Can introverts engage in social learning? It could be that introverted professionals prefer to go through individual e-learning models and more extroverted professionals in social learning activities. We have already concluded that everybody engages in social learning.
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March 2011 in Review
Jane Hart
APRIL 2, 2011
I manage my family, team, career, and social needs effortlessly. Social Learning Community. I launched the Social Learning Community on 7 March, and in the few weeks that it has been active, there are now over 550 members. We have had quite a few discussions, including what makes a successful community.
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191 Top 5 Things Associations can Learn from Corporate Training Departments
Association eLearning
APRIL 30, 2014
Corporate training departments have carried this further, by implementing coaching and communities of practice (CoP). Likewise, associations can leverage their membership to create virtual and ongoing communities of practice.
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