Social learning is a powerful instrument available to all organizations as part of enterprise 2.0 toolsets. Let’s start with a definition of social learning to get alignment on what we are talking about before we dive deeper
For anyone working in social media and enterprise 2.0 here are a few books that I recommend reading: The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media by Tony Bingham, Marcia Conner, Daniel H
There are a couple of key use cases where social collaboration and HR have particular synergies - firstly around employee onboarding or induction, and secondly around social learning. Onboarding is the most discrete example of the two, whereby organisations can accelerate and improve the time to effectiveness for an employee joining the organisation, by providing an explicit community-style environment where the new joiner can learn about his/her new role, find out more about the organisation and its culture and processes, and start to build a network of contacts throughout the organisation
Instructor-led, classroom-based learning is the most common type of learning that most of us have experienced throughout our lives. However, new modalities of learning are being rapidly enabled as technology advancement allow large amounts of learning resources to be more easily and readily...
Another crucial piece in this puzzle is in providing a platform to support social learning - helping employees to develop skills and experience in an informal, ongoing way, through interacting with colleagues, seeing what others are doing, and asking questions, for example. Social collaboration tools not only provide a platform for this interaction, but they often also include gamification features that can help to encourage social learning, while also helping to track employees' progress as they develop
Halelly Azulay , CEO, TalentGrow Tuesday, March 6 – 9:00 a.m. PST Social Learning and Employee Development Halelly Azulay will discuss the realities of employee development, leveraging social networking and media for learner-driven, learner-generated learning Jon Ferrara , CEO, Nimble Wednesday, March 21 – 10:00 a.m
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