The future of e-learning is social learning

Social Learning Part I: The Future of E‐Learning is Social Learning Jane Hart Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies www..c4lpt.co.uk

Part 1 The Future of E‐Learning is Social Learning Jane Hart is a Social Media and What is Social Learning? Learning Consultant who has a 25 year track record of helping business year track record of helping business What are Social Learning and education understand how new Platforms technologies can be used for learning as well as to improve job and business p j performance. She currently focuses The role of a Social Learning on helping organisations introduce Professional social media into their learning and g performance support initiatives. (c) C4LPT, 2009

For many years this was the model of learning. For many years this was the model of learning. (c) C4LPT, 2009

Most e‐Learning simply automates simply automates that model. The only difference is Th l diff i now learners don’t need to be in the same need to be in the same place at the same time. They can have access They can have access to learning at any time, any place yp (c) C4LPT, 2009

However, although a lot of money is spent on creating engaging, interactive, multimedia courseware, one vital ingredient is missing: other people one vital ingredient is missing: other people So a blended approach is often employed. But even face‐to‐face events are often delivered in a fairly traditional way. (c) C4LPT, 2009

Meanwhile, outside of the formal learning Meanwhile outside of the formal learning environment (online courses, classroom, workshops, etc) individuals are learning in p, ) g other ways – often without realising it ‐ whether it be by reading, listening or watching … (c) C4LPT, 2009

… or simply by talking to one another. or simply by talking to one another. (c) C4LPT, 2009

Only recently Only recently has this informal learning g been recognised as important … and that it needs to be supported within an organisation. But how? (c) C4LPT, 2009

In fact, the easy availability of f h l bl f new, social media tools has meant that individuals are meant that individuals are already managing their own personal (informal) learning personal (informal) learning … th t i th search f that is they search for and d access all kinds of resources: videos, podcasts, blogs, etc, videos podcasts blogs etc whenever they need them, they create their own resources they create their own resources and store them for easy retrieval (c) C4LPT, 2009

They also make Th l k connections with like‐minded people with like minded people with whom they can communicate it and share ideas, resources, experiences, i and so on. (c) C4LPT, 2009

And groups of individuals are using these new tools to “self‐organise” t “ lf i” … to collaborate and co‐create content and co create content and generally work and learn together (c) C4LPT, 2009

Even within the traditional formal learning environment, these new tools are being used by educators to ensure that formal learning is becoming more participative, social and collaborative. participative social and collaborative (c) C4LPT, 2009

Today’s Learning Platforms y g therefore need to be able to support all these learning approaches: h formal and informal, personal and social ld il But there are drawbacks with most of the existing tools and systems … tools and systems (c) C4LPT, 2009

Current organisational learning C t i ti ll i systems, e.g. LMS primarily support (non‐social) formal learning. And even LMS 2.0 systems (i.e. LMS + social media) only support only support formal social learning (c) C4LPT, 2009

But the use of a large number of stand‐alone social media tools would be far too media tools would be far too overwhelming for many users within an y organisation. (c) C4LPT, 2009

It would also mean that personal and organisational p g data would be scattered all over the Internet, with obvious concerns about hb b data privacy and security (c) C4LPT, 2009

What is needed is an integrated platform of key social media tools Social media tools that can: that can: Blogging 1. provide a secure pace for Micro‐blogging individuals to aggregate, store gg g , and share their personal RSS feeds learning and working Social bookmarking resources Social networking 2. provide a secure space for groups to work and learn File sharing g collaboratively Communication tools 3. provide a secure space for Collaboration tools Collaboration tools formal social and collaborative f l i l d ll b i learning to take place (c) C4LPT, 2009

A number of enterprise social A b ft i il learning platforms are emerging. There are commercial systems like SocialText – www.socialtext.com and Mzinga – www.mzinga.com But one free, open source platform that has been around pa o a as bee a ou d some years is Elgg ‐ www.elgg.org. Elgg is fully customisable, configurable and extensible. configurable and extensible Part 2 of this presentation P t 2 f thi t ti You can experience an Elgg‐ looks at using Elgg as a social powered social learning platform at learning platform. www.c4lpt.net (c) C4LPT, 2009

Whatever the platform or tools p that are used to provide a social learning i ll i approach within an within an organisation, learning professionals will fi l ill need to support learners in new ways .. (c) C4LPT, 2009

1 – They will need to help individual learners acquire a range of skills to manage range of skills to manage their own personal learning 2 – They will need to help y p groups understand how to address their own team performance and learning performance and learning problems 3 – They will need to build formal learning solutions that focus on providing a social, collaborative, , , Part 3 of this presentation looks at how to Part 3 of this presentation looks at how to participative learning support informal and formal social experience learning within an organisation. (c) C4LPT, 2009

The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies provides a range of Social Learning Consultancy Services to help organisations with their social learning initiatives social learning initiatives For more information, please go to www.c4lpt.co.uk/socialmedia/ (c) C4LPT, 2009

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