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Social play can be Social Learning

Ideaon

I have been asked a half-dozen times about my thoughts on Social Learning within corporations. At work we do use social tools such as Skype, Yahoo Messenger and YouTube for learning purposes. This supports the case for social learning, but the social theories have also provided insights into the effectiveness of social learning.

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Learning to Lead in the Time of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

Just look at what happened to Blockbuster , Polaroid , and (most recently) Yahoo. Organizations must be learning constantly to ensure survival. Effective leaders will need to be able to adapt to such a wide variety of different contexts, conditions, and situations that it will be increasingly difficult to simply teach "how to lead."

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Investing in your Single-Source Nightmare

Xyleme

I recently had the opportunity to chat with some project leaders across industries that are in various stages of their single-source learning initiatives: I was interested in the change management issues they faced and what steps they took to effectively manage and overcome these potential obstacles. So be open-minded to the process.

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Humannet at Cisco

Jay Cross

Yesterday I spent the day at Cisco talking with old friends and new about what Fast Company recently described as an “unprecedented forward-looking strategy to unleash what it’s calling a ‘ human network effect ’ both on and off the Cisco campus.” Last week, Google, Facebook, Nokia, Yahoo!, Learning Irregulars is in formation.

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learning pulse

Xyleme

In complex environments, only emergent practices are effective, as backward-looking “good practices” are inadequate”. How not to adopt an LCMS The Great Debate Once Again… RSS feed Google Youdao Xian Guo Zhua Xia My Yahoo! Harold Jarche is exploring the challenges of training in complex environments. “In No trackbacks yet.

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The top 10 reasons your mobile learning strategy will fail | Dawn.

Xyleme

While it took the iPad to make learner-controlled content a reality, this level of flexibility is now the gold standard for delivery to any device, be it tablets, smart phones or any number of performance support devices. Unlike eLearning, mobile means many different types of content (courseware, performance support, assessments, etc.)

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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

By doing this, George argues that vendors (LMS in particular), and the organizations they sell to, will begin to see their product no longer as simply an event-based tool for learning, but rather as a process-based tool for capacity planning and workplace effectiveness.