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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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: The Mechanics of Social Learning Networks for 9th Graders (Part 3)
“Determining the right technology package for a learning solution can be challenging under any circumstances. Identifying – and assembling – the right set of freeware tools to provide the infrastructure that will spawn an active social learning network among a class of mid-performing 9th graders was like being back in grad school.”
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5 Tips for Knowledge Gardeners: How to Grow a Collaborative Learning Community
The world is going open source, but that doesn’t mean every organization’s culture is open-sourced. New ideas and systems need nurturing. Growing a healthy learning community is a lot like growing a healthy garden. Here’s how to start your own.
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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: The Seven C’s of a Social Learning Network (Part 2)
In February, Anne joined the Teacher Support Network in her community. She was assigned to a ninth-grade teacher and students, to help the students succeed in their classes so that they can stay on (or get on) a college-bound track. This also gives her an opportunity to experience life inside a high school classroom firsthand. This week’s column continues the story of that experience.
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Collaborative Learning – for the people, by the people
Traditional approaches to training are facing disruption. Disruptive innovation, in the form of social software, is sparking new philosophies about formal and informal use of collaboration to support learning. This is the first of two columns about this, and how you can adapt your approach to instruction to take advantage of these developments.
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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: Social Learning Technology for Ninth-Graders (Part 1)
Can a learning technologist find a way to harness social learning technology in a way that will offer supportive solutions for ninth-graders and their teacher? In August, 2009, Anne challenged readers to join her in volunteering for their local school. Walking her talk in this and the following several columns, she will share her experiences in doing just that.
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Dispatch from the Digital Frontier: The Aughts, the Ought-Nots, and the Ought-Oh’s
The first decade of the 21st Century had its high points and its low moments, all of which affect what we will be doing in the second decade. Anne looks at some of the most significant developments.
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ARGs Leverage Intelligence: Improving Performance Through Collaborative Play
Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) facilitate e-Learning while maintaining motivation. They are excellent tools to encourage collective intelligence, collaborative play, and distributed storytelling in an educational environment. ARGs also help to increase communication, and raise awareness about products and causes. Read this case study, assemble your design team, and create a successful game!
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Culture Change and Learning: Online Social Networks Enable Individuals
It’s not possible to introduce social networks for e-Learning without considering their effect on an organization’s total business process. Social networks are a disruptive process, and managers of e-Learning initiatives would do well to keep this in mind. Implement wisely, and in collaboration with the executive team. This article explores the dimensions of the task!
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Social Media in Learning
A frequent question on Twitter and LinkedIn is, “Do social media have a place in learning?” Many trainers think the answer is, “No.” Read this article to learn why that’s the wrong answer, and how to implement social learning in your e-Learning designs!
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Self-Efficacy in Social Learning
E-Learning designers sometimes show the same fascination with social learning that a moth has with a flame, or an acrophobic with a cliff ledge. Fascinated, but wary of getting too close. The secret to success is dealing with the real challenges: self-confidence, self-esteem, social proof, trust, cultural awareness, and technical knowledge and aptitude. Make the change without fear!