Social & Collaborative Learning
The interactions between people and groups where information, knowledge and insight are shared to collectively improve performance and build contextual understanding.
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Turning MOOC Cons into Pros: Using MOOCs for Recruitment in Higher Education
MOOCs have developed rather negative connotations as a learning delivery platform: high attrition rate, middling rigor, heterogeneous student cohorts with widely varying skill levels and backgrounds, insufficient recognition of learning value, and an unsustainable “free” business model. Using a MOOC as a recruitment tool, not just a content delivery system, flips these MOOC “cons” to “pros.”
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Add Social Networks to Virtual Classrooms to Spark Collaboration
The collaborative tools built into most virtual classroom platforms, along with private spaces on social or office networking platforms, provide opportunities for learners to collaborate with geographically dispersed colleagues.
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In Real Life: Enabling Your Knowledge-Sharing Advocates
In an ideal world, workplace information and experience would flow together into a powerful collection of shared knowledge. Employees and teams would know what to share and how best to share it. L&D would focus on tools and enablement rather than content and control. Sorry to disappoint, but we don’t live (or work) in that world. Yet we could. Here’s how to get on the road to that world.
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Deeper Design: Putting It All Together
The end of any eLearning development project comes when you deliver the product. For the team of developers in this story, that will happen the week of September 12 (next week!). Here is the final chapter, in which the team deals with the authoring and user experience issues.
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Nuts and Bolts: Working Out Loud: What’s In It for Organizations?
There’s a lot of conversation lately about working out loud and the benefits it brings to individual workers. At the same time, however, it’s a tough sell to make to leaders in some organizations. Here are the five chief benefits to the organization, explained in a way that’s hard to argue with!
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Deeper Design: Tweaking the Media
With the high-level issues resolved, the design team began to wrestle with and fine-tune key choices of implementation for those decisions. This was necessary before final development within an authoring tool could be successful. This is a short story, but without it the course could never be realized.
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Deeper Design: Beyond Traditional Instructional Design
“Deeper design” goes beyond traditional instructional design to reflect on what’s known about how we learn and what that implies for the strategy. Too often we talk about “content” without talking about the subtleties. Continuing the story of how a team of designers implemented these ideas, here is their high-level process as they move from the objectives to deciding on pedagogy.
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Deeper Design: Working Out Loud
This is the start of a narration, a story—working out loud, in other words—about how a small group of designers decided to build a better way to support learning. The end of this narration will come in September, when the team releases its product, free of charge, to the world. Enjoy the view as you travel along with the team under the guidance of The eLearning Guild’s first Guild Master.
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Informal Learning Calls for Hands-off Management
Social media platforms make it easy to develop large “professional” learning networks. A learning network can arise around use of the same software tool, discussion of learning strategy or eLearning design and development models, or exploration of content on the same topic. Learn about it here!
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Nuts and Bolts: It’s Not About “Doing” Social
What is “social learning”? This is a question that evidently stymies a lot of learning and development teams and their managers, but it need not. Some groups figure it out, and some groups fail at it. If you want to know what makes the difference, Jane shows you in her column this month. By the way, have you seen any Pokémon trainers out on the street today?