Social Learning Centre

Social Learning Handbook

“It is becoming apparent that we are at the beginning of a fundamental shift in the way that both learning and working is happening in organisations. The revolution that is social media means that now everyone can have access to the Social Web and a range of services and applications to support their own as well as their team’s learning, performance and productivity. This should not be seen as a threat to Workplace Learning Professionals, but as an opportunity to take on the new challenges it offers. The first step will be to understand the changes that are taking place, and then become immersed in the new social media tools that are underpinning this change in order to help others in the organization work and learn smarter. Life in the Social Workplace is not something you just talk or read about; it’s something you do!” You can purchase the paperback on Lulu

I am often asked for recommendations of people to follow who specifically work in workplace learning (rather than in education).  Here is my starter list. Add your name to the list at the bottom too.

100+ examples of the use of social media in learning (2009)

Here are over 100 ways that different social technologies (and tools) are being used by learning professionals worldwide – compiled from the comments of those who have contributed to the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 activity.

Here are examples of how social media can be used for 5 types of learning:

1 – IOL – Intra-Organisational Learning
2 – FSL – Formal Structured Learning
3 – GDL – Group Directed Learning
4 – PDL – Personal Directed Learning
5 – ASL – Accidental & Serendipitous Learning

Here are a number of examples of how people and organisations are using social media for social learning – both INTERNALLY and EXTERNALLY – in order to improve job, team and business performance and productivity. These examples are listed in reverse chronological order, i.e. most recent first.

Watch the tongue-in-cheek video of 10 reasons why to ban social media in organisations, and then read reasons why not to ban social media. A good armoury of responses to use with sceptical managers.

Top 100 Tools 2011 - as voted for by over 500 learning professionals worldwide – many of these are social media tools

50 More Tools - 50 tools that didn’t quite make the Top 100 Tools list

Directory of Learning & Performance Tools - over 2,000 tools of which a large proportion are social media tools.

Learning in the Social Workplace Blog