Many of us in those chats are also connected through our networks on Twitter, and many of us are first-hand connections. We continue to engage as always, but the nature and manner of that engagement is different. If you want to interact, use networking strategies (@ individuals, develop followers) and not community conversation strategies.

Anyway, good read and good interacting with you.

I threw ‘participant’ into the earlier conversation because I use that in my org, frustrated hearing the other term used in awkward contexts.

At least part of Reuben’s point is that many in our community continue to use ‘learning’ as a noun, as if they can design and create such a thing. I do think it’s counterproductive when we lose sight of our inability to learn people, and why I carefully wrote, “We strive to create products and activities designed to stimulate learning…”

I think it was Steve Flowers who threw out “participants” and I can potentially roll with that — it specifies what I’m asking for (ie member of the target audience), without being assuming “learning” or “training” as the intervention. Considering adopting that.

(Steve also suggested “shipmates” which I TOTALLY want to use for everything now, but not being associated with the coast guard probably makes that impractical. Then, I’d also want to start all my communications with “Ahoy!” and that’d probably get old fast).

I’ll join your group in the Social Learning Centre on the Coherent Organization and encourage others with shared interest to do the same.

If you’ve got the time and inclination, Dr. Clark has several very interesting videos where he discusses the research his Research Institute at USC’s CCT does – for other Research Institutes and groups like the US Army: http://eppic.biz/2012/05/11/69-minute-video-an-interview-with-dr-richard-e-clark-by-aect/ – and – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YF0jjbwnNU&feature=player_embedded – and – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aHvvxXhm2Y&feature=player_embedded

http://elearningdevnews.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/access-learning/#comment-699

The suppressant metaphor works well in this reference as well.

Social learning does in deed define the culture we work in ~ and hopefully folks realize that not only they’re learning socially everyday anywhere, bur that they are teaching otters socially too- therefore a higher level Of
Social consciousness and an open leadership practice is required for ” quality social leaning” face to face or in virtual worlds …

My favourite is #2 and often is the hardest to break through. Poorly designed eLearning often “spoonfeeds” people into a very narrow view of what they need to know to develop. We must stretch oursevles as facilitators of learning along with those we support.

Keep up the good work!

Fiona.

Totally agree with you on this. I’ve always maintained that classroom traing was and remains one of the best examples of social learning.

At work, we seem to have created an artificial divide in social media. We have a SoMe policy, covering external use and organisational reputation/brand management, but internally, I have to call it ‘collaborative’ media to get any kind of engagement or buy-in to its deployment and subsequent use.

Great blog, thanks.

ADDIE might be social. She might not be. We get to engage with our outcomes statement and decide. Then, we and our learners also decide what type of social we will engage in. Perfect!

As a relatively new practitioner in the social learning space, I share your hope the results will emerge. I’m counting on it, and hope my experience of the next few weeks provides at least one more data point.

Also hard to disagree about the value to be derived from those social learning strategies. Learning is enhanced if the matters are revisited and chewed on over time and over place. Makes sense to do it with a little help from our friends and customers. Interestingly, this SAT morning at ISPI, USC’s Richard Clark noted that there was no evidence supporting fondness for these approaches. That said, I intend to keep on keeping on. As our technologies improve and we better integrate social learning into learning and performance systems, the results will emerge. I hope.

Was working on these very matters. Perhaps that work will interest you: http://www.allisonrossett.com/2012/04/21/instructional-design-something-old-something-new/

To the extent we can share (and not everything can be shared), socializing a design before development can get us to a more ideal program or product faster because we have a community that’s willing to help. In the case of an ILT/Social program I’m running these next three weeks, I used these communities and found people very willing to offer good feedback.

Thanks again for your comments!

I think the twitter chat & trusted tweep recommendations are the best “follows” usually, and for myself, I think have helped me build a great PLN! :)

Thanks for being a part of it! :)
~Meg

I think your addition probably really fits as evaluation – that happens within design and development phases – as part of the iterative process that ADDIE really SHOULD be. I like the idea, especially for small or one-person training departments, of “socializing” your design ideas before committing the development time. You could do the same at development as well – get some more beta testers for feedback from the instructional design perspective & make sure you didn’t miss something by being too close to the project.

I like it! :)
~Meg

Helen

Good reminder for folks. Although at least since Maria Connor and Tony Bingham wrote The New Social Learning it has become an unwritten understanding that Social Media is a vehicle to propel social learning and as a result they fortunately or not have become synonymous.

You make a point that your students were already using social learning. I don’t think this is an incorrect statement but it struck me as interesting because it implies there was a conscious decision to do so or not. I believe that it is as unconscious as breathing; we can’t help ourselves. Being social, sharing ideas, questions and answers is what we humans do … Without necessarily a decision to do so … Maybe only when and with whom.

And we all know the value of a good story! It’s especially important in the disciplinary setting where I write as a blogger, the nonprofit sector (and nonprofit governance specifically). Stories illustrate and illuminate in ways that have the greatest potential resonance with our readers.