Posted on February 24th, 2010 by Harold Jarche
Cross-posted at InternetTimeAlliance.com
A framework for social learning in the enterprise
The social learning revolution has only just begun. Corporations that understand the value of knowledge sharing, teamwork, informal learning and joint problem solving are investing heavily in collaboration technology and are reaping the early rewards.
- Jay Cross
Social learning
Why is social learning important [...]
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Posted on January 29th, 2010 by Harold Jarche
The focus of this blog is on learning and working on the web and how work and learning are becoming one in a digitally interconnected world. I believe there is a critical need for new organizational frameworks, such as wirearchy, and a shift from learning as training & schooling to a more agile approach. Evidence [...]
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Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by Harold Jarche
Some of the interesting things I found on Twitter this past week.
Diffusion By Learning. Innovation by Social Learning. via @charlesjennings
3. Social learning. People adopt once they see enough empirical evidence to convince them that the innovation is worth adopting, where the evidence is generated by the outcomes among prior adopters. Individuals may adopt at different [...]
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Posted on January 3rd, 2010 by Harold Jarche
This past year, my Internet Time Alliance colleague Jane Hart changed her title to Social Learning Consultant. Why?
Whereas early e-learning was all about delivering content, primarily in the form of online courses, produced by experts and managed via learning management systems, Social Learning is about creating and sharing information and knowledge with [...]
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Posted on December 15th, 2009 by Harold Jarche
Our motto is that “six heads are better than one” at the Internet Time Alliance, and I have the pleasure of working with and learning from a great collaborative team, spread across eight time zones.
1. Jon Husband’s working definition of Wirearchy is “a dynamic two-way flow of power and authority, based on knowledge, trust, credibility [...]
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Posted on December 15th, 2009 by Harold Jarche
We were discussing social learning yesterday and I think it boils down to this:
We are all inter-connected because
technology has enabled communication networks on a worldwide scale,
so that systemic changes are sensed almost immediately,
which means that reaction times and feedback loops have to be better, therefore
we need to know who to ask for advice right now,
which [...]
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Posted on November 15th, 2009 by Harold Jarche
Once again, I’m learning from my colleagues, as yesterday I realized how important self-direction is in enabling social learning. Now I’m picking up on Jay’s post on Social Learning Gets Real and see how it connects to Jane’s observations. Jay has described several aspects of the future of social learning (below) and they map to [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2009 by Harold Jarche
We released our first white paper, on Social Learning, at the Collaborative Enterprise last week.
For me, the essence of social learning is that as our work becomes more complex, we need faster feedback loops to stay on top of it. Courses, with their long development cycle, are inadequate to meet the learning and performance needs [...]
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Posted on October 15th, 2009 by Harold Jarche
Why is social learning important?
It is becoming more difficult to make sense of the world by ourselves. Understanding issues that affect our lives takes significant time and effort, whether it be public education, universal health care or climate change. Even the selection of a mobile phone plan requires more than mere numeracy and literacy. We [...]
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Posted on June 1st, 2009 by Harold Jarche
Effective knowledge sharing is what many organizations do not do well, or as Lew Platt past-CEO of Hewlett-Packard said, “if only HP knew what HP knows, we would be three times more productive”. But HP will never know what the employees of HP know, so wouldn’t it be better to let the workers share what [...]
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