Workplaces are awash in email traffic, competing demands, and hard-to-maintain courseware, while businesses try to operate more responsively to the needs of both the marketplace and its stakeholders. To better work within this complexity and remain relevant to the business, L&D needs to rethink the methods it uses to support learners. While expensive, enterprise-weight solutions exist for this dilemma, there is a simpler approach you can consider that has shallower learning curves, stronger impact, and greater extensibility—Slack.

In this session, you’ll learn how just how easy it is to use Slack to build a learning and collaboration ecosystem. This social-collaborative tool enables real-time communication and is particularly positioned for success in L&D. You’ll discover how its capabilities extend learning from stand-alone offerings into micro-communications and context-related expert sourcing. You’ll also explore case studies on how Slack can be combined with the analytics functions available in the tool itself as well as through other services such as Google Analytics and Learning Locker for xAPI. This session will give you the keys to designing and managing your learning ecosystem in the workplace for improved performance or in higher education settings to support local or distributed student populations.

In this session, you will learn:

• The basics of the Slack platform
• The design fundamentals and practices needed to use Slack to support learning
• What measurement and analytics tools can help you learn more about your Slack ecosystem and how it functions
• What management/facilitation fundamentals you’ll need to grow and foster your learning ecosystem

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers, managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Slack.