214 Let Learners Lead: Crafting Facilitator-free Social Learning
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM ET / 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM PT Wednesday, October 26
Montego B
"The path to personal insight leads through other people."
David Dunning
Social learning happens every day, but it's not always by design. How do we harness the richness of social learning to guide learners' growth and performance?
This session will walk you through how Sublime Media and Microsoft crafted a groundbreaking learning and development cohort program that prioritizes community over traditional learning objectives. David Linder, founder and creative director of Sublime Media, and Jason Gray, senior learning development consultant for Microsoft, will reveal how they designed meaningful social learning opportunities for Microsoft's innovative Aspire Pi program.
In this session you will learn:
- How to build meaningful relationships that improve satisfaction and retention in a hybrid workplace
- To balance free form learning with the expertise your learners need to succeed
- How to increase engagement through social learning opportunities
- How to partner with learners to develop effective learning programs
Technologies discussed:
Microsoft Suite, video conferencing software (Teams, Zoom), digital communication tools (Slack, Outlook)
David Linder
Creative Director and Co-founder
Sublime Media
David Linder is the co-founder and creative director of Sublime Media. He leads the company's creative and product development and specializes in learning approach design. With more than 25 years of experience in the training industry as a developer and instructional designer, his favorite parts of his job are seeing how things work from the inside, learning something so well he can teach it, and making beautiful things.
Jason Gray
Senior Learning Development Consultant
Microsoft
Remember learning algebra? I remember sitting confused as Mrs. Owens wrote, 5000x+15=4.5. Solve X, she said, as I thought, "I'm never figuring out X." She noticed my confusion and helped out. One day something stuck. I GOT IT! From that point, I ate mathematics up. Fast forward and I'm at Microsoft where challenges like 5000x+15=4.5 are everywhere. My job is to make solving X for our early-in-career hires easier. I grow the 5,000 recent university hires with my 15 years at Microsoft to achieve 4.5 trillion market cap. And X? I'm an X factor in that success.