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1. Enabling Learning through Social
Media Tools
Social Learning in
Workplace
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2. What is Social Learning?
Social learning is loosely defined as:
 Everyday Learning
 Observational Learning
 Experiential Learning
It is Learning from the people and with the people.
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3. Some Everyday Examples of Social
Learning
 Learning to make a family recipe from your
Mom.
 Learning to ride a car or bike from your dad.
 Learning dance from your friend or colleague.
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4. LET US SEE HOW!
Though Social Learning has been around since
a long time but the proliferation of Social Media
and the ever changing technology has brought
in a completely new dimension to it.
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5. How Social Learning is benefitting in the
Workplace?
 Mayo Clinic, a Not for Profit Medical Practice is using
Micro blogging through its micro sharing network for
interaction and problem solving amongst its medical staff.
Source: ASTD Research (2011). Social Learning New Materials
 Wells Fargo’s, WSG group Mentoring Program saw a
900% growth in 2011, through the implementation of a
social learning platform by Rivers.
Source: River Helps Mentoring Programs
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6. How Social Learning is benefitting in the
Workplace?
 IBM is also implementing social learning through online
learning communities and socially generated tags on key
knowledge assets to make the relevant knowledge more
searchable.
Source: http://c4lpt.co.uk/learning-resources/social-learning-handbook/social-learning-
examples-in-the-workplace/
 TELUS, a Canadian Telecom company used Microsoft
Sharepoint to earning through a formal, informal, and
social content paradigm, including networking, blogs,
wikis, videos, communities, and collaboration sites to
foster knowledge sharing among team members.
Source: http://c4lpt.co.uk/learning-resources/social-learning-handbook/social-learning-
examples-in-the-workplace/
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7. Why Social Learning in Workplace?
 Continuous Knowledge and Skills up gradation of
workforce to match the business requirements can
be facilitated effectively through Social Learning.
 Retention and application of learning through social
learning is likely to he higher than ILT or structured
e-learning course as it is highly personalised.
 Promotes the culture of collaboration and sharing,
which is healthy for organizational growth.
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8. Which Social Media Tools to choose in
Workplace ?
Key to choosing Social Medial tools is to have an
understanding of:
 Business Context and the Work culture
 Learners Needs
 Technology Limitations
 Cost and Time Factor
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9. Most Popular Social Media Tools in
Workplace
Shared Workspaces like:
 Microsoft Share Point
 Google Docs
Key Features
 Easy to share documents, information, content and
makes comments etc.
 A good first point to start the Social Learning initiative
and test the acceptance within the organization.
Source: ASTD Research (2011). Social Learning New Materials
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10. Most Popular Social Media Tools in
Workplace Contd.
Open Source Tools like:
 Blogs
 Microblogs
 Video Blogs
 Podcasting
Key Features
 All these are widely popular and low cost options.
 Content creation is quite easy as the person uses
his/her natural writing/speaking style.
 Learner friendly as commenting on and sharing
similar experiences is convenient.
Source: ASTD Research (2011). Social Learning New Materials
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11. Most Popular Social Media Tools in
Workplace Contd.
Full Blown Social Learning Platforms like:
 Curatr
 Tidwit
 Teamie
Key Features
 Used by organizations which have a large distributed
workforce .
 Should be used at later sage of social learning life cycle
as it involves huge investments as well as integration
with the main IT systems.
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12. Business Case for Social Learning
 Initiate social learning with open source tools like Wikis, blogs, MS
Share point to promote the culture of informal learning.
 Identify social learning champions specially the millennial
workforce which are comfortable with social media tools.
 Train the workforce on the effective use of social media tools for
learning.
 Encourage and reward the use of social media tools on the job to
foster a culture of social learning.
After all it is learning for the people and with
the people!
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