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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Visual Language Theory and Digital Storytelling: Using Comics for Learning
This research report unveils visual communication’s power and impact on human cognition and decision-making. Elevate your marketing campaigns, design creations, and overall brand communication.
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25 Ways to Support Social Learning in Your Organization
Accelerate organizational agility and empower your workforce with this comprehensive checklist designed to foster knowledge sharing, collaboration, and continuous learning in today’s fast-paced, hybrid work environments.
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‘Start Over’: Use Concepts of Play to Build Mastery at Work
The ability to start over is powerful. Learn how to use this concept to boost the relevance of training and engage learners, with compelling impacts.
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Building Your Dream L&D Team
This report will show you how to build your dream L&D team with valuable insights from industry experts on hiring, funding, and team structure to help you unlock strategies to optimize your L&D efforts.
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Cohort Learning Challenges: Meeting the Engagement Needs of Hybrid Workers
In today’s world of hybrid work where many employees are working remotely, feeling disconnected from their colleagues and facing a variety of distractions, it is becoming increasingly important to find innovative ways to engage them in learning. To address this challenge, instructional designers are turning to successful techniques from outside the traditional learning and development (L&D) space. This session will showcase how a small group of learning professionals collaborated to develop a unique solution called the Cohort Challenge. It combines the group interaction of online learning platforms like Udemy and Coursera with the quick and highly engaging “challenge” concept that…
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Do More with Less: Increasing L&D Impact with Expert-Driven Learning
As the economy struggles, C-suites everywhere are becoming more cautious with cash and spending. We’re all asked to ‘do more with less.’ To prove business impact, L&D and HR teams need to adjust their strategies. Learn how AI and expert-powered collaborative learning transforms the way stakeholders look at L&D—from a cost to a must-have investment. In this session, L&D and HR leaders will learn how to achieve outsized impacts on a limited budget. By making the shift from expensive one-size-fits-all learning content to tailored peer-driven learning experiences powered by AI tools, we can boost skills development and lift employee retention…
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Panel Discussion: Maximizing Employee Potential Through Social Learning
The world of work demands that people stay connected. Connection enhances employee engagement, extends knowledge sharing and breeds creative solutions. Our leaders and practitioner-led panel will openly discuss various approaches to social learning in our dynamic work environments, including peer-to-peer learning and mentorship programs and social technology use for knowledge sharing. The discussion will also examine measuring the impact of social learning on employee performance, including metrics such as knowledge retention, collaboration, and engagement. You will leave with real-world examples of social learning, the challenges and solutions being created for meeting the demands of modern work and learning.
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Measure the Impact of Social Learning
What if there was a way to get more accurate data on what, how, and when people needed to learn? Standard L&D analytics generally measure content: Who took what course or module? Where did they take it? When? And, did they like it? We assess with ADDIE models, trying to ensure we hit the right pain points for learners. We use surveys and guesswork. Yet we ignore social learning, the very best source of learning data in an organization. This session will teach you how to measure the impact social learning has on organizational performance, drill down into what data…
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Building Stronger eLearning Communities: The Evolution of COPs in Washington State Government
There are hundreds of eLearning developers working for a variety of government agencies across the state of Washington. Many are experts in specific aspects of eLearning such as accessibility or graphic design, but lack expertise in other areas. Being disconnected, developers resorted to Google searches and larger online communities to grow knowledge and skills. Utilizing these resources, we found many others in Washington state government who had the answers to our questions, and we had answers to theirs. We needed a way to come together, share ideas, trials, and build a community where it is safe to ask questions. In…
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Overcoming Organizational Design Barriers for Effective Social Learning
In 2022-23, social learning and collaboration jumped nearthe top of Donald Taylor’s Global Sentiment Survey again. This is no surprisegiven the renewed focus on new ways of working during the COVID-19 pandemic.The modern work environment requires a shift to social first approaches yet ourvery organizational systems and design can hinder connection and collaboration!How do you support efforts to change the rules people operate under and wheredo you start? L&D, technology, and leadership all have a role to play, butthey might not be what you’ve been told or come to expect. In this session,you’ll learn the importance of approaching performance challenges…