Learning is a fundamentally social process that is enhanced by new Web 2.0 tools that strengthen social interactions and collaboration. These tools support informal and workplace learning in important ways for knowledge workers and adult learners. Web 2.0 allows for augmented social cognition and more effective learning communities through user participation, interaction, tagging, and other social processes.

1. Learning as a Social Process Robert D. Cormia Foothill College

2. Learning as a Social Process Learning is a social process – it is in our biology – it’s actually in our DNA! Anthropology Sociology Psychology Networks Humans are a learning animal – not just our capacity to learn – our desire to learn

3. Social Learning is the Tail of the Learning Process Posted by: John in social learning Kevin Jones (from the Cascadia blog , but not this time) has presented at the ASTD TechKnowledge Conference in San Antonio this week and shows the role of Social Learning as the tail of the learning process. http://frontlinelearning.edublogs.org/tag/cascadia/

4. Complex Learning Communities Society Communities Organizations Disciplines Classrooms Workplace Learning as a social process – or society as a learning community?

5. http://newlearning.wikispaces.com/ New Technology Means New Learning (or should it be New Ways of Learning?)

6. Actively engaging students in the learning process rather than allowing them to be passive recipients of content. Experts proposed that interaction, participation, and social learning experiences might be key factors that promote connection and less isolation . http://activeinstruction.com/custom3.html What is Social Constructivist Learning?

7. What is Social Constructivist Learning? http://activeinstruction.com/

8. Social Computing Social computing is a general term for an area of computer science that is concerned with the intersection of social behavior and computational systems . It is used in two ways. Technology mediated social transactions Augmented social cognition (PARC) Think, reason, and remember ( Wisdom of Crowds ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_computing

9. What is Web 2.0? Eras of the Web Techno-interactions: People Information Applications Collaboration Read / write Web Annotating information http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2004/12/20/hypercube_part_1/1 People Applications Information

10. Eras of the Web Content Web (1995-2005) HTML for browsers Process Web (2000-2010) XML for machines Semantic Web (2005-2015) RDF for humans / machines The Metaweb (2010-2025) Networked machines / applications

11. http://novaspivack.typepad.com/RadarNetworksTowardsAWebOS.jpg

12. http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/metaweb_graph.jpg

13. Web 2.0 Technology Fostering a world of emergent collaboration and augmented social cognition

14. What is Web 2.0? Web 2.0 is ‘made of people’ It is both human and ‘emergent’ Augmented social cognition A lot like ‘pre-web’ AOL and BBS More powerful, and ‘generational’ Web 2.0 tools  social process

15. Made of People People are the secret to Web 2.0 Bottom up ‘swarming’ of content Power mass knowledge – consensus? Building active s, collective wisdom Emergent nodes / human network

16. The Read-Write Web People interacting with information Information isn’t as static, and a ‘dynamic flow / process’ begins Comments and tags add metadata and context, and are a springboard for human interaction manikandakumar.blogspot.com

17. What are Social Networks? Sociograms Process Modeling and analysis Roles Applications Pivot browsing Networks

18. Social Graph: Concepts and Issues In his post, Ben Fitzpatrick defines "social graph" as "the global mapping of everybody and how they're related". http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_graph_concepts_and_issues.php

19. Social Graphs LinkedIn will help you organize and explore your extended networks – Allows you to extend your network by pivot browsing across contacts

20. Navigating Social Graphs Visualization Navigation Pivot browsing People Associations Interactions Data Applications

21. Pivot Browsing

22. Topic – Concept Map http://cs-alb-pc3.massey.ac.nz/notes/59102/mindmap.gif http://www.topicscape.com/concept-mapping.html

23. Review of Web 2.0 Tools Blogs Wikis Forums FAQs OERs Twitter G-snap YouTube™

24. Blogs Personal and group publishing You publish – readers comment Basis of ‘citizen journalism’ Early and ‘informal’ reporting ‘ Bottom up’ vs. ‘top down’ Easy Web publishing / templates Blogger.com WordPress.org

25. RSS Really Simple Syndication Publishing news and content alerts CNN news alerts Snippet publishing News, alerts, lists iTunes top 10 list Addendum to blogging Notification of new posts

26. Wikis MediaWiki Wikipedia Wikibooks Wikiversity WikiProject http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

27. Wikipatterns Optimizing: Adoption Productivity Collaboration Interactions Flows Conflict Management Goals Outcomes http://www.wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/Wikipatterns

28. Forums and FAQs Q&A Dialog Debate Discussions Collaboration Solving problems Current problems Learning / sharing

29. User Built FAQs WikiAnswers Yahoo! Answers Slashdot Web MD

30. ‘ Tagging’ Digg Collective site ranking Del.icio.us Adding tags Tag clouds Collection of tags on a site StumbleUpon Site discovery by user type

31. Tag Clouds A tag cloud is a set of related tags with corresponding weights. Typical tag clouds have between 30 and 150 tags. The weights are represented using font sizes or other visual clues. Meanwhile, histograms or pie charts are most commonly used to represent approximately a dozen different weights. Hence, tag clouds can represent many more weights, though less accurately so. Also, frequently, tag clouds are interactive: tags are hyperlinks typically allowing the user to drill down on the data. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/~blamb/FolksonomyCast.mov

32. Social Media Meets Social Learning Image from http://www.biojobblog.com/ Trademarks property of respective owners

33. Social Media Properties YouTube™ MySpace Facebook Wikipedia LinkedIn Del.ico.us StumbleUpon Second Life

34. Twitter SMS ‘ IM cast’ 140 characters Tweets Follow people Searchable Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? http://www.twitter.com/

35. g-snap! SMS plus content Archives to stories Collaboration Event casting Informal learning Unstructured events Data can be searched http://www.gsnap.com/

36. Second Life Social interactions Avatar personas Obscure physique? Richer interactions? Role exploration? Collaboration Classes / meetings

37. Business Meets Learning Facebook™ Twitter™ YouTube™ LinkedIn™ Wikipedia Wikiversity Café classes

38. Web 2.0 Learning Portals Science blogs Open access science (PLOS) InnoCentive™ Wikibooks Wikiversity iTunesU http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/

39. Facebook & Twitter http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=28901872314

40. Open Access Learning Science Directory of Open Access Science PLOS - Public Library of science PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Science GIS Google earth Google space Google ocean

42. Web 2.0 meets Web 3.0 Human tagging Machine readable Knowledge constructs Assertions Connections Knowledge arcs Hyper documents Navigable paths

43. Semantic Wiki Project WikiProteins Google Knol™ Semantic Web One Notebook™ One Textbook™ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki

44. Semantic Wiki Ontology Entity relationships Assertions Nodes Arcs Edges Attributes Associations Namespaces Inheritance Navigation Pivot browsing http://www.mikeaxelrod.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/iswc-ontology-web.png

45. Hyper-document Tagging http://www.textensor.com/enhancing-documents-2007.html

46. Collaboration Tools Google Docs TeamViewer™ CCC Confer MediaWiki TelePresence™ WebEx™ Microsoft Roundtable™

47. Workplace Learning http://professional-learning.eu/

48. Informal Learning Communities New social process Topic centric Un-conferences Un-classrooms

49. Strategies and Tips for Un-Course Management Teams Contact Goals Support Participate Reflection Archiving Unconference - discussion based learning – facilitation is critical!

50. Collaboration / Learning Synchronous Asynchronous Exchanging formal and informal learning Process / flow Social patterns http://resolutionarythinking.com/

51. Knowledge Work Evolves Impersonal knowledge is those ideas and pieces of information made explicit in documents and files ( sometimes email ). Personal knowledge is the tacit learning locked inside our heads (not written down). Interpersonal knowledge is implicit between and among individuals and embedded in conversations and connections (esp. email).

52. Engineering Learning Communities New tools / techniques Serving the long-tail High performance work groups Collaborative learning http://www.enhanced-learning.net/ http://psalter.edublogs.org/

53. Bioinformatics / Genomics What do our genes work? What do new discoveries mean? Where does new knowledge ‘fit’? How do proteins, genes, environment interact? http://proteins.wikiprofessional.org/

54. Augmented Social Cognition PARC How groups Remember Think Reason http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/

55. Learning Organizations Education Social disciplines Science Society CSR efforts The Social Enterprise http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/

56. Tribes – Learning to Action Social / network computing Turn learning into process Process into action Action into results Engineering change http://sethgodin.typepad.com/

57. Learning as a Social Process New social process Inclusion Collaboration Global reach Moving the needle Gap analysis Connected media Tagging

58. Social Computing and knowledge building Social networks RSS Open source software Search engines Portals P2P C2C Podcasts Wikis Tagging http://www.forrester.com/

59. Summary Learning is a social process Web 2.0 tools strengthen social transactions and collaboration Informal and workplace learning is significant in a knowledge economy Adult learners and knowledge workers need tools for learning

60. References PARC – http://www.parc.com/ Google – http://www.google.com/ W3C – http://www.w3c.org/ MediaWiki – http://www.mediawiki.org/ WikiProject – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_wiki/ Open Educational Resources – http://www.oercommons.org/