Educational Technology

January 9, 2013

Use Social Media to Drive More Learning

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:35 am

by Claire Schooley, Claire Schooley Blog

My colleagues and I talk often about social collaboration and its tepid adoption. The fact is it’s hard to get employees to use a tool unless they see a real use for it. This is certainly true in learning. Most of the learning management vendors have some kind of social offering. The uptake depends on the efforts made by the learning department staff to integrate social, and how appropriate social is to the specific learning content. Another stumbling block for learning and social is that using social tools is a change from a typical online learning experience and it demands some change management. Most people don’t embrace change; they need help in learning to use the tool and they need to see that social has positive effects on their learning. The purpose of social learning is to provide an environment where learners share experiences and resources and work together. A social learning environment supports conversations, discussions, and learning from each other. I see a number of ways that organizations are beginning to use social learning.

http://blogs.forrester.com/claire_schooley/12-12-31-use_social_media_to_drive_more_learning

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