Social Learning Examples:

Here are few examples of Social Learning Projects:

  • Learning Content Project:  The use of a collaborative writing tool to have a small group of learners build a common document with core content from a course.  The social dimension is their interaction and varied perspectives on the content.
  • MicroBlogging for Sales Force Training:  Creation of an internal micro-blogging site (ala Twitter) for field sales staff to enter 140 character summary of each call during orientation month - shared with peers and managers.
  • Peer Based On Boarding:  Each new hire is assigned a trio of peers, including multi-year veterans and recently hired peers to have targeted discussions on assigned topics.
  • SharePoint Learning Assignments:  One organization is deeply using an implementation of their Social Platform, Microsoft's SharePoint, to create a "space" for each course that requires learners to interact with each other and expertise on key topics.
  • Colleague Location Models:  Organizations are experimenting with internal colleague profiles and locater systems to provide learners with deeper access to "tacit" expertise.
  • UserContent Harvesting:  Create an internal YouTube for organizational expertise - leveraging ratings and reviews to create an internal "marketplace" for most valuable solutions.
  • JigSawing Collaborative Learning: Used in elementary schools, this technique can add a social dimension to classroom instruction - where small teams acquire knowledge from an e-Learning module and then teach other teams the content/context.
  • Social Knowledge Maps: Creating a shared and annotated "mind map" of content and context - extended by each learner and group that participates in the activity.
  • Peer Assessment and Mini-Certification:  Using a more granular and peer based model for practice and even testing on certifiable topics.
  • Globalizing Learning - Socially: Leveraging a Learning Based Wiki to provide regional and country based globalization of content - including translation and culture adaptions.
  • Performer Support with Social Learning Models: Adaptions of a Performance Support approach - creating peer driven pop-ups and other user tools.

These are just a small sample of Social Learning projects underway from previous alumni of our LAB & Seminar.