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Three Archived Presentations on the Use of Social Learning
The use of social technology as part of organizationallearning strategy is a popular topic with readers of Learning Solutions Magazine. Here are three session recordings fromthe November 2015 Online Forum on using social technology.
Online EventsArchive: We Don’t Own Social in the Workplace… and We Never Will. JD Dillon. Handout,session recording. Social technology is ubiquitous ineveryday life. Meanwhile, many organizations remain hindered in their attemptsto leverage social tools to improve the employee experience in the workplace. Manytimes, L&D teams try to lead the charge under the guise of social learningbut are often unable to achieve meaningful levels of user engagement. We’retired, disappointed, and frustrated because we know it’s a good idea, but wecan’t figure out why it’s not working. If people have become so comfortableengaging with one another online outside the office, why can’t we get them toexhibit the same behaviors inside the office? Thissession explored the cultural foundation of the evolving social workplace usingpractical examples. Learn about the employee and organizational behaviorsnecessary to facilitate meaningful, relevant, and continued collaboration andknowledge sharing.
Online EventsArchive: Connected: Research-based Principles for Enriching Social Learning. CatherineLombardozzi. Handout, session recording. Manyorganizations have experienced challenges with building online communities andenabling peer-to-peer learning through a variety of social tools. Learning professionalsoften don’t understand why social learning takes off among one group oflearners but doesn’t seem to work well with others. The benefits of sociallearning supported by online tools can be frustratingly elusive. Explore the insights researchers studying sociallearning provide us with that can inform your learning strategy. Learn whatdraws people into relationships that promote learning and examine the variousdynamics of social-learning processes.
Online Events Archive: Developing Your Social Learning Playbook. Ben Betts.Handout, session recording. The importance of social factors in learning is wellestablished. But knowing how to best influence and impact these factors remainssomething of a mystery to most organizations. A number of thought-leaders havesuggested you can’t do much of anything to impact social learning in theworkplace. They are wrong. You can design social learning opportunities andmeasure their impact. Drawing on research, and from our experiences of workingwith some of the leading organizations in the world, we’ve developed our ownsocial-learning playbook. Now we invite you to develop your own, based on theframework we provide.
