Learning in the Social Workplace

How to organise a formal online social learning experience for the workplace – aka a corporate-mini-c-MOOC!

Jane Hart — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:01:33 +0000

Online social workshop at the Social Learning Centre starts Monday 27 May.

Organising a formal online social learning experience for the workplace is much more than just requiring people to use some social media tools in an online course, rather it means applying 5 fundamental pedagogical principles:

1 – scaffolding the social learning experience
2 – offering as much autonomy as possible
3 – focusing on enabling the social interaction
4 – supporting the experience with content as appropriate
5 – and driving it with a performance outcome in mind

You can read more about the importance of these principles for underpinning a successful formal online social learning experience in my blog post, 5 principles for a successful formal online social learning experience.Ã¢?Â¦

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Professional Development in Social Learning: 3 different skill areas

Jane Hart — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:20:51 +0000

I’m constantly asked by Learning & Development professionals where they can learn more about social learning.

First of all I guess we need to be quite clear what we mean by the term “social learning:Ã¢?Â¦

that it is not just something that just happens when people study together but is also something that happens continuously in the flow of work as people work together; and that it doesn’t require social tools for it to happen, although they can make it a more powerful experience, but that the presence of social tools doesn’t necessarily mean people will learn socially. [...]

5 principles for a successful formal online social learning experience – and it’s not about the tools

Jane Hart — Sat, 11 May 2013 10:03:26 +0000

There has been a lot of talk about the use of social media tools in formal workplace learning; and I am regularly asked to review initiatives of this kind. In many instances, the use of social tools has simply been “bolted-on” or “shoe-horned” into existing training or e-learning practices, in which case it doesn’t tend to work very well at all.Ã¢?Â¦

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Slideshare reaches 10 million uploads .. and my Top 100 Tools slideset is featured.

Jane Hart — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:51:39 +0000

I just read a blog post from Slideshare to mark the fact it has reached 10 million uploads. Impressive! But I was absolutely delighted to see that my own Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 slideset was featured in the Education category – not only in the post itself but in the supporting infographic (embedded below). Ã¢?Â¦

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The Workplace Learning Revolution: free mini e-book

Jane Hart — Tue, 07 May 2013 08:51:10 +0000

“A revolution is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time.” (Wikipedia)

I’ve had such a lot of interest in the new book I’m working on, The Workplace Learning Revolution, that I decided to create a free mini e-book version.Ã¢?Â¦

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Free webinar: Learning in the Connected Workplace

Jane Hart — Fri, 03 May 2013 08:52:40 +0000

As part of the Learning & Performance Institute’s Webinar programme:

Date: Wednesday 8th May 2013
Starts: 3.00pm (UK BST)
Finishes: 4.00pm (UK BST)
Presenter: Harold Jarche & Jane Hart

In the digitally connected enterprise everyone will need a new set of personal and social workplace skills, including:

Personal knowledge management skillsÃ¢?Â¦ - in order to make sense of, and learn from, the constant stream of information that they encounter from social channels both inside and outside the organisation. [...]

2 free copies of Flat Army go to …

Jane Hart — Fri, 03 May 2013 08:16:52 +0000

Earlier in April, I posted that I was giving away two free copies of Dan Pontefract’s book, Flat Army, and I invited readers to try and win a copy by saying what new tool they thought might help their own L&D Department become more connected as a team, and why.Ã¢?Â¦

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My favourite blog posts from April 2013

Jane Hart — Wed, 01 May 2013 07:33:34 +0000

At the end of every month I review the blog posts and articles that I read during the month, and identify those that I have particularly enjoyed – for me this is a key part of curation.Ã¢?Â¦

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How can L&D departments best serve their organisations?

Jane Hart — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:54:52 +0000

Simple! Ask the people themselves!

I was doing some research for my upcoming book, The Workplace Learning Revolution, when I came across a discussion thread on the Programmers Stack Exchange.

Here I found a question from someone who explained he was not an engineer, but “just someone who works with them full-time, in a learning and development capacity“. Ã¢?Â¦

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Supporting continuous learning and performance improvement – a vital new area of work

Jane Hart — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:58:14 +0000

In my previous post I showed that an analysis of how Knowledge Workers like to learn at work suggests that L&D departments should consider working more closely with people managers to support the continuous learning and performance improvement of their people – both in teams and individually.Ã¢?Â¦

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