Agenda
1. What is social media?
2. Why social media in training?
3. Which tool and choosing which one to use and when?
4. Getting started with social media
5. Disadvantages or issues?
6. What is social learning?
7. What’s the difference between regular/traditional/formal and social learning?
8. What does social learning look like?
9. Social learning: “how to do things” versus “how to get things done”
10. What’s the future?
14. What is Social Media?What is Social Media?
Definition?
◦ Content Produced by the Public
◦ Tools used to get Content out
What’s the difference between this media
and media 10 years ago?
•Static
•Not Interactive
V.S
.
•Changing/Sharing
•Collaborative
16. Why Social Media in Training?Why Social Media in Training?
What can it do?
◦ Dissolves the barrier between the learners and
the instructor
◦ Continuing conversations
◦ Goes beyond the classroom
◦ Supports communities of learners
◦ Meet learners where they are
◦ Can help learners be aware of their own learning
process
◦ Additional support for new learning
◦ Helps the training department in informal
learning
18. Which Tool and Choosing whichWhich Tool and Choosing which
One to Use and When?One to Use and When?
Microblogging
Communities
Collaborative Editing
Journaling
Other tools?
When to use them?
◦ Fit Instructional Goals
◦ Know your Audience
20. Getting Started with Social MediaGetting Started with Social Media
See handout…
Main points?
◦ Lots of facilitation from the trainer
◦ Making learners work together
◦ Provide practice opportunities
◦ Make it painless and positive for them
◦ Walk the talk
25. What is Social Learning?What is Social Learning?
What is learning?
◦ Learning encompasses retention and transfer
of new information, regardless of how its
gathered
26. What is Social Learning?What is Social Learning?
Issues of learning in organizations?
◦ Making it relevant
◦ Recognizing when learning is happening
27. What is Social Learning?What is Social Learning?
Definition:
◦ Watching and talking with and living alongside
one another
◦ Can’t learn by yourself
◦ With the learner in mind
29. What’s the Difference BetweenWhat’s the Difference Between
Regular/Traditional/FormalRegular/Traditional/Formal andand
SocialSocial Learning?Learning?
What does regular/traditional/formal
learning look like?
33. Social Learning:Social Learning: “how to do things”“how to do things”
VersusVersus “how to get things done”“how to get things done”
Formal training = ?
◦ “How to do things”
In between formal training = ?
◦ How to get things done”
35. What’s The Future?What’s The Future?
Technologies changing
Use same skills with new tools
Trainers need to learn how to get things
done to relate to employees
Shorter formal events, spaced further
apart
More involvement of trainers in between
formal events