The future of e-learning is social learning

I've been producing a number of short, introductory presentations for clients and other purposes (like conference presentations) on social learning in organisations.  This first one covers: What is Social Learning?  Social Learning platforms, and the role of Social Learning Professionals.

{This presentation is currently being showcased on Slideshare's Education page]

Parts 2 and 3 will be available very shortly ...

Comments

[Andy Hampton]

Very interesting slideshow, Jane. I am interested in the same topic but related to 6 to 16 year olds for whom more formal structures are needed to guide and support them. Your slide 17 calls for a single platform of learning tools and in my experience a good VLE can provide that in schools. I have just introduced a powerful and well evolved VLE at my school and the early signs regarding pupil engagement are very encouraging.
www.itslearning.com
Pupil engagement is the holy grail for me and the VLE will be, I think, a significant accelerator. As things evolve I intend to blog about how its going: www.andyhampton.blogspot.com
Andy Hampton

[Jane Hart]

Thanks Andy. Does your VLE provide your pupils with a secure personal space as well as the faciltiy for groups to create spaces for peer learning?

[Geoffrey Boys]

This slide show is so good that I thought that is was written for me. However it is not just for me, who talks and lectures to older people about Social Learning. It will be of value to a much wider audience. I will put it away in my archives and I will wonder in the future why it was necessary to spell out all those basic things, that will by then have become commonplace.

[Jane Hart]

Geoffrey, agreed! Sad that one has to point out the obvious. But it appears that it isn't so obvious to everyone!

[Kevin Bruny http://twitter.com/row4it]

Jane, very well done! Concise and to the point. Will be a great slide deck for me to use with our Council on Leanring. Thanks much. I agree with others that the obvious is not always obvious with organizational leaders....and others.

[Carol Cooper-Taylor]

Great slides Jane. In May I'm starting an online course aimed at school teachers on "The Interactive Web for Teachers" your slides will come in handy as a resource www.cooper-taylor.com

[Pearletta Wilson]

This is a great presentation. This is useful for my own personal development in elearning which I am using to support my work in developing elearning resources in a further education college. This slideshow will be bookmarked in my Reader for future reference.

[Ken Allan]

Kia ora Jane

George Seimens pointed to Howard Rheingold's idea that learner's 'attention' is as much part of the set of learning skills as any needed by the learner.

My feeling is that if this skill is practiced then more learning would occur even in the workplace through social learning, never mind formal learning that your presentation tends to suggest is the exclusive learning province of the workplace.

I also believe that we tend to get possessed with all the sophisticated means of delivering learning and forget about what could be improved at the receiving end.

Metacognition, and all its varied skills, can be acquired by anyone at any age. Admittedly there are tiers of metagognitive skill. But understanding that I am not going to learn much from this lesson/podcast/conversation/lecture/video-conference/film-show if I am texting my best mate at the same time is a step towards learning how to pay attention.

As well, the need for reflecting and revisiting, soon as, go a long way towards consolidating whatever may have been peripherally received. Sleeping-on-it and revisiting soon the next day is another technique that tends to be ignored with glazed eyes today.

My thinking is that we tend to poo-poo these techniques as old-fashioned, out-of-date or otherwise past methods of applying what's delivered to what could be learnt. It seems a pity to throw the baby out with the bath as well.

Catchya later

[Bill Farren]

Thanks for the slides. They offer an important view of learning that seems to have gotten little attention, especially in schools. I'll be sharing it with people at my school.
If you're interested, I created a similar set, pulling some quotes from Clay Shirky, JS Brown, etc.

http://www.slideshare.net/ed4wb/participatory-learning-1046639