P16 Designing Effective Social Learning
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Tuesday, November 15
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There’s a lot of talk about social learning, but many organizations are struggling to implement it effectively. They are unsure what technology to use, or they have technology but can’t generate engagement. They may also be unclear about how to design the experience or support the community. One thing is for sure: Traditional design skills will not suffice in a social learning space. Designers need to learn.
In this workshop, you’ll use a case study to learn how to carry out the end-to-end design of a scaffolded social learning program. In an interactive, hands-on event, you’ll explore key aspects of social learning, such as how to choose which technologies to use, approach your learning design, create and manage a social community, and build legacy and measurable ROI out of the experience. While the case study you’ll use is fictional, the skills you’ll build in this workshop will be practical and transferable.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to carry out social learning design, start to finish
- What criteria and decision points help you choose the right technology
- What the lifecycle of a community is and how you can build guidelines to nurture it in your organization
- How to write your community rules—or tear them up entirely
- How to measure the ROI of social learning
Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers and managers. Participants should come in with a keen interest
in social learning and a desire to figure out how to do it.
Technology
discussed in this session:
Conversation systems (such as Yammer, WhatsApp, and
Jive), collaboration systems (like Tessello, LinkedIn, Jive, and Slack), and infrastructure
systems (including full LMS solutions like Totara and Fuse).
Julian Stodd
Author and Founder
Sea Salt Learning
Julian Stodd is an author and founder of Sea Salt Learning, a global learning consultancy helping organizations adapt and thrive in the social age. Much of his consultancy work is around the need for social leadership, the design of scaffolded social learning, planning for organizational change, and the impacts of social collaborative technology. Julian comes from an academic background in communication theory, psychology and neurophysiology, learning design, educational psychology, museum education, and philosophy. He is a proud global mentor with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, and a Trustee of Drake Music, a charity that works to break down disabling barriers to music through education and research. He was awarded the Learning Performance Institute’s Colin Corder Award for Services to Learning in 2016. He has written 10 books, including The Social Leadership Handbook, Exploring the World of Social Learning, and A Mindset for Mobile Learning.
