Jane's Pick of the Day: From “learning technologies” to “social technologies”

14 June 2012

From “learning technologies” to “social technologies”

Here is a snippet from my latest bog post - you can read it in full here

"Whereas many individuals are happy to use their own social tools to power their own and their team’ activities, most organisations generally prefer them to use some sort of internal enterprise platform to keep the conversations and content private and secure. But one thing is clear, existing learning platforms are not appropriate to underpin the entire Social Workplace Learning Continuum – since they are built around the “course” model and focus on “managing” users in formal learning contexts. Whereas what is now required is a technological infrastructure that can support the full spectrum of working and learning activities; in other words it requires social workplace technologies– rather than (social) learning technologies."

14 Jun 2012 14:44:17

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