Jane Hart elearning pick of the day

“A revolution is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time.” (Wikipedia) I’ve been preparing some extended notes for some presentations about The Social Learning Revolution – in particular how social media is impacting all our working and learning lives, and what this means for the Learning & Development department. I’ve been looking at the following: How we have traditionally understood “learning” in the workplace and how we really learn... Jane Hart

Here is my pick of 10 articles about social learning since my last posting just before Christmas. I have listed them below in chronological order, and also added a short quote from each of them to give you a flavour of what each is about. If you want to read further articles you will find many more that I have saved in my 2012 Reading List .... Read the full post in myLearning in the Social Workplace blog Jane Hart

Here's the latest news from the Social Learning Centre - what's been happening in January and what’s coming up in February? Membership has now reached over 700. For non-members I've been adding some new (free) resources and some free on-demand tutorials. How to use Twitter for social learning is particularly popular. First of all, the Introduction to social learning in the workplace programme begins on 20 February. I want to build a small group of participants with a common interest... Jane Hart

Following my last post Social Learning: Are you starting from the right place, I was asked to explain what “social learning” actually is in an organizational context. Rather than provide a bland definition, I thought I would provide some quotes from some key resources that will give a flavour of what it is all about ... Read the article on the Learning in the Social Workplace blog Jane Hart

When I hear people ask for advice about how to “do” or “implement” social learning it reminds me of this Irish joke. “Paddy stopped cutting the hedge as the big car drew up beside him and an English visitor enquired, “Could you tell me the way to Balbriggan, Please?” Read the rest of the article on the Learning in the Social Workplace blog Jane Hart

At the Social Learning Centre I am going to be hosting a number of short online “programmes” about social media, social learning and social business. These “programmes” will use a very informal, social, collaborative approach: there will be no formal classes and no monitoring/management of your learning in a LMS. Rather the programmes will be hosted in dedicated group spaces on the Social Learning Centre (which is powered by a social and collaboration platform). Each day there will be an... Jane Hart

My colleague Harold Jarche has created the following presentation which brings together some thoughts (in the form of short quotes) about workplace transformation from each the 5 Principals of the Internet Time Alliance (ITA). ITA Insights 2012 When Mark Britz tweeted about this slideset, he said ITA Insights 2012 slideshare.net/jarche/ita-ins… via @slideshare / Quote on slide 8 now on my Org email signature. — mark britz (@britz) January 25, 2012 Which quote would you use on your email signature? We... Jane Hart

In my new monthly series of webinars at the Social Learning Centre I will be talking to industry practitioners and thought leaders from around the world about their work with social media and their current thinking about its use in the workplace. I am very pleased to announce that my friend, Jane Bozarth has agreed to be my first webinar guest. I’m sure you all know Jane, as she has written lots of useful practical e-learning books including the recently... Jane Hart

I’d like to introduce you to my latest venture, which I’ve been working on over the last few weeks with a number of early users: the Social Learning Centre. The Social Learning Centre is the place where learning professionals can find out more about the use of social media for learning, as well as exchange thoughts and ideas with their peers and leading practitioners and thought leaders around the world. Become a member of this global learning community and get... Jane Hart

As you will know I finalised the 5th Annual survey of Top 100 Tools for Learning in the middle of November 2011, and at that time placed the presentation on Slideshare. I’ve just noticed that in the subsequent two months it has been viewed over 200,000 times! You will also know, Twitter topped the list again for the 3rd year running, although in 2008 it was only ranked 11th and in 2007 it was 43rd on the list. This made... Jane Hart

In his recent post, Informal Learning , 95% solution, Harold Jarche provides the reason why many workplace learning professionals can only think about “informal learning” and “social learning” in terms of how they can manage them within a blended training solution – rather than simply support them, as they happen, naturally and continuously, in the workflow. “Since the latter half of the 20th century, we have gone through a period where training departments have been directed to control organizational learning.... Jane Hart

Predictions for an upcoming new year are inevitably based on the “flow” from the current year, so if you have taken a look at my Top 100 articles of 2011 (or even my complete 2011 Reading List), you will not be surprised to hear that many predict that 2012 will be the “Year of Social Business“. Up to now, for many organisations, Social Business has been about social … Read the rest of this post on the C4LPT blog Jane Hart

My primary blog is now the C4LPT Blog based at http://c4lpt.co.uk/blog. You can subscribe to the RSS feed here: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/feed/ In my second blog post reviewing 2011, I take a look at some the key moments of my own year in terms of resources, blog posts and presentations I have produced. January In January I published my Social Learning Handbook (both as a paperback and a PDF). This book aggregated a lot of my thinking and activities from 2010. Its... Jane Hart

With only a few more days left of 2011, this is the first of a series of posts reviewing the past year and look forward to 2012. From nearly 500 links to articles, blog posts, slideshows, reports and (this year also) infographics that I saved in my 2011 Reading List, I have produced a list of the 100 articles that I enjoyed or that impressed me most in 2011. This is my 4th Top 100 articles list, and this year... Jane Hart

It seems that many people like tools lists, if the fact that there have been over 110,000 views of the 2011 Top 100 Tools list presentation via Slideshare since 13 November is anything to go by! So here is my Christmas present to you – 50 More tools! This time the ones that didn’t quite make it onto the 2011 list. 25 of the tools have actually already appeared on previous Top 100 Tools lists (in 2010, 2009, 2008 and/or... Jane Hart

Here is this week’s roundup of 5 resources about social learning and the use of social media for learning. Again lots of great articles to choose from this week. 1 – We start this week with a couple of educational resources. The first is So.cl. This is a research experiment, from Microsoft, for students focused on combining web browsing, search, and social networking for the purposes of learning. … Read the rest of the post here Jane Hart

The revolution that is social media means that everyone can now 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. So here is an opportunity to find out about a wide range of tools that can help you and your team work smarter. The Smart Worker’s Guide to Social Media (SWGSM) contains 30 short Assignments which provide introductory reading, examples, links to further... Jane Hart

There have been lots of interesting articles and posts this week about social learning and the use of social media for learning. Here is my pick of just 5 of them 1- I am going to start this week with a post by Jon Ingham, who Words: 73 was at the recent #CIPDSocial event, and in which he describes ARM’s very social business. Although the term “social learning” isn’t actually mentioned in… Read the rest of this article Jane Hart

You have probably heard about The Flipped Classroom where the traditional classroom model has been flipped on its head, so that students watch videos as homework and then apply the concepts in the classroom. If you haven’t, Dan Pink explains it in his piece in The Telegraph, Flip Thinking – the new buzz word sweeping the US: “During class time, the teacher will stand at the front of the room ... … Read the rest of Jane's post here Jane Hart

Back in May 2010 I posted a diagram that I had created that showed what I considered to be the 5 stages of Workplace Learning. My ITA colleague, Jay Cross, re-worked it so that I looked like this. Back in May 2010 I wrote: ”In my opinion most organisations are in Stage 3, but as the L&D conversation circles around the concepts of social and informal learning, I’m getting the impression that many are… Read the rest of the article... Jane Hart