1. What is Social Learning?
An explanation using Twitter
Jane Hart, Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

2. What is Learning?
Formal Informal
Formal Structured Personal Group Directed Intra-Organisational Accidental &
Learning Directed Learning Learning Serendipitous
Learning Learning
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3. What are Social Media?
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4. Using Twitter for Social Learning
easy-to-use yet powerful tool
for social learning
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5. Social Learning is about …
networks and communities
Personal Learning Networks,
Learning Communities,
Communities of Practice, etc
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6. 1
Please introduce yourself
to the group.
#tzljh
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7. Social Learning is about …
making connections
with
colleagues, friends,
other “like‐minded” people,
experts, gurus, etc
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8. Make a connection with someone on
Twitter by following them
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9. Social Learning is about …
keeping up to date
with industry news
what your colleagues and network is doing
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10. 2
Who would you
recommend to
follow to keep up to
date with L&D
industry news?
#tzljh
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11. Finding people on Twitter
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12. Social Learning is about …
communication
to build relationships,
for one‐to‐one communication
for broadcast communication
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13. Your tweet will go to everyone who
follows you
@username – to address someone or
refer to someone
RT username – to retweet someone’s
tweet
d username – to send a private
message to someone who follows you;
you can only receive DM from someone
who you follow
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14. Social Learning is about …
asking questions
and problem solving
asking and answering questions
of your network or community
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15. 3
What is your top tool
for learning?
#tzljh
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17. Top 10 Tools for Learning 2009
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18. Social Learning is about …
sharing
thoughts, experiences, ideas
and more
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19. Social Learning is about …
sharing links
useful and interesting
web links
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20. URL shorteners
You can even customise the link, e.g. http://bit.ly/asteroid2010
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21. Social Learning is about …
sharing resources
pictures, videos,
music, documents
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22. 5
Here’s an
old fav of mine
http://blip.fm/~kwhor.
Do you like it?
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23. Social Learning is about …
engagement
with presenters, tutors and trainers
(in‐event, pre‐ and post‐event)
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24. Incorporating the backchannel
into a f2f event
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25. Ask questions to engage your
audience, e.g.
6
Which social network has so many
members that if it were a country it
would be the 3rd largest?
#tzljh
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26. Social Learning is about …
involving others in
an event
who can’t be there in person
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27. Twitcam example: Pigcam
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28. Social Learning is about …
micro‐learning
sharing knowledge nuggets on a
daily or regular basis
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30. Social Learning is about …
synchronous learning
with others remotely dispersed
at a scheduled time
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31. #lrnchat
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32. Answer to Q6
with over 500 million members,
if it were a country it would be the world’s 3rd
largest ahead of the United States and only
behind China and India
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33. Social Learning is about …
collaboration
e.g. working together
collaborative writing,
being a member of a book club
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35. Social Learning is about …
having fun
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38. Social Media for Learning
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40. The SMARTER Approach to
Workplace Learning
S = social and collaboration approaches
M = mindset/culture change
A = autonomous learners
R = reduction in training
T = technology-
E = enabled approach
R > responsive organisation
www.C4LPT.co.uk/SMARTER.html
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41. For the presentation and
links to all the resources incl the
free How to use Twitter for Social
Learning guide
www.C4LPT.co.uk/articles/tzjh.html
Jane Hart
Email: jane.hart@c4lpt.co.uk
Twitter: @c4lpt
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/c4lpt
Website: www.C4LPT.co.uk
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