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Social Learning vs. Communities of Practice

Janet Clarey

When it comes to the terms “Social Learning” and “Communities of Practice”, many people in the corporate learning realm are confused, myself included. Are Social Learning and Communities of Practice different? Social Learning is hard to track and it’s going to happen whether we try to implement it or not.

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Maximizing Your Learning Experience with Social Learning Apps

Instancy

With Instancy, learners can track, measure, recognize, and reward their participation and knowledge contribution. Creating Communities of Practice Instancy’s social learning tools help learners to create communities of practice based on their interests.

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70:20:10 Tech

Clark Quinn

One is the rise of social networking tools: blogs, micro-blogs, wikis, and more. We can also have a richer suite of coaching and mentoring happening through Communities of Practice, where anyone can be a coach or mentor, and be developed in those roles, too. The technology wasn’t advanced enough. But that’s changed.

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Training Method Trends

Clark Quinn

I'm not surprised, but I'm sure there continues to be pain ( Learning Management Systems (LMS) Gotchas , Tracking Without an LMS , LMS Dissatisfaction on the Rise , Do You WANT an LMS? If someone can get to your online reference (stored on a wiki) through their smart phone's browser, is that mobile learning? Does a Learner WANT an LMS?

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Corporate Training Content: Directions in Curation

Litmos

They took what they had, and migrated them to collaborative documents (wikis, at the time). You’re also likely tapping into expertise from their community of practice. There’s also what comes through social media, including community groups and trusted relationships. What's next for content curation?

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50 Ways to Lever Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Learning Management System (LMS) – using the data from training program tracking software as a focus for discussing employee learning goals and progress toward those goals. Community of practice – people who share the same interests or responsibilities in an organization come together to learn from each other.

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Using SharePoint

Tony Karrer

Using SharePoint for Work Team or Communities of Practice (CoP) Collaboration Outside of any particular formal learning, many training organizations are using SharePoint to support work teams. Some used it to track bugs. They focus more on information push and it's less intended to have user-contributed content.