The Future of Learning

Organising a formal online social learning experience for the workplace

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,  and 
5. 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.

This workshop will help you plan a formal online social learning experience as well as scaffold its framework. It will also provide the opportunity for you to run a short session yourself with the other participants.

Although this workshop is primarily aimed at those active in workplace learning, it will also be suitable for those in education.

AGENDA: 
Part 1 : 27 MAY - 7 JUNE
Week 1:  Planning your workshop
Weeks 2-3: Scaffolding the framework

Break to allow time for you to work on your own online social learning experience

Part 2 : 15 JULY - 7 AUGUST
Weeks 4-5: Running your own mini online social learning session. Members are encouraged to participate in as many as of the other online social expereinces they can.
Week 6: Review: reflections on your own experience both as an organiser and participant.

Book a place
To register for this online social workshop, please complete the registration form HERE

Professional Development in Social Learning: 3 different skill areas

You can read the post in full here.

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

You can read the full post here.

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

I just read a blog post from Slideshare to mark the fact it has reached 10 million downloads. 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).  Just for information, this year's slideset has to date had 438K views and last year's 2011 slideset has over 844K views.

The Workplace Learning Revolution: free mini e-book

“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.

This 24 page document provides an overview of how the Internet is changing the way we learn at work and how organisations can support these new ways of learning.  

It also provides links to the more comprehensive version that I am building online.

I've put the document on Slideshare, where you can download a copy, but below is the embedded version.

The Workplace Learning Revolution from Jane Hart

Free webinar: Learning in the Connected Workplace

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)
Presenters: 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 skills - 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.
• Collaboration skills – in order to share knowledge with others and and learn cooperatively in teams, communities of practice, and social networks.

There will also be a need for:

• Community management skills – in order to build and sustain communities of practice, as well as how to build an enterprise community spirit
• Connected leadership skills - so that managers can lead their teams effectively in the new connected workplace.

In this webinar, Harold Jarche and Jane Hart will discuss these new skills, and how L&D can build and support them in their organisations.

They will also talk about the new Certificate and Diploma programme to be offered through the Learning & Performance Institute, so that learning professionals can become certified in this new area of connected work.

Register here

My favourite blog posts from April 2013

To find out what they are, please read my post here.