Closing Keynote, WCET Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, 15 November 2013

1. The Social Learning Revolution
Jane Hart
WCET Closing Keynote
15 November 2013

2. @C4LPT
Independent advisor,
writer and international
speaker on learning
trends, technologies and
tools
Partner in the international think
tank on workplace learning,
Internet Time Alliance
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3. The Social Learning Revolution
What is the Social Learning
Revolution?
What does it mean for
workplace learning?
What does it mean for
higher education?

4. Our view of learning hasn’t
changed for a long time …
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5. …. it’s essentially about transferring knowledge into the heads of an individual

6. Meanwhile out on the Social Web, things are very different …
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10. 1
Twitter
2
Google Drive/Docs
3
YouTube
4
Google Search
5
PowerPoint
6
Evernote
7
Dropbox
8
Wordpress
Blogging/website tool
9
Facebook
Social network
SAME
Social network and micro-blogging service
Office tools file storage
ê 1
Video sharing site
SAME
Web search engine
é 3
Presentation software
é 6
Productivity tool
File storage and synchronization service
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Google+/Hangouts .
é 1
ê 1
ê 3
SAME
Social network/
video meetings
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11. 1.
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Free online social tools dominate the list
Increasing consumerization of IT and Learning
Learning, working and personal tools are merging
Personal and professional learning is under the
control of the individual

12. Individuals are using social tools to build a trusted
network of friends and colleagues - aka a Personal or
Professional Learning Network
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13. ask and answer questions of each other
exchange resources, ideas and
experiences
brainstorm and solve problems together
keep up to date with what their
colleagues are doing
learn from each other – often without
even realising it
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14. “25% of doctors use social
media daily to scan or explore
new medical information.
Social media never will
replace traditional means of
research and learning … it’s
an additional — and valuable
— channel that can add to a
physician’s knowledge base.”
Journal of Medical Internet
Research
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15. Individuals are using social tools to ..
“learn the new” and to keep up
to date with their industry and
profession
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16. INDIVIDUALS are using social tools to ..
participate in wider educational opportunities

17. Individuals are using
social tools to ..
find solutions to their
own performance
problems
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18. Individuals are using
social tools to ..
share what they find, learn,
create and know
with one another
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19. Teams and groups are using social tools for ..
knowledge sharing and collaboration
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20. For those active on the Social Web, “learning”
will never be the same again
continuously
on demand
socially
autonomously
in the workflow
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21. The social learning revolution is …
workplace
… that we now have the tools to make it an even more powerful experience,
and it has changed the way many prefer to learn;
individuals now have the tools to solve their own learning and performance problems
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and are bypassing IT and LD to do so

22. It explains why there is
growing frustration with
a lot of e-learning
“knowledge dumps tarted
up with trivial interactions”
Clark Quinn
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23. And why some are now paying their
children to take their e-learning for
them.

24. What does
this mean for
workplace
learning?

25. It’s not just about adding social tools to existing instructional
practices …
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26. It means supporting more modern and relevant approaches
to learning in the workplace.

27. The workplace is now changing.
Social Businesses are emerging.

28. Enterprise Social Networks are being adopted.

29. In the Age of Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration.
learning is no longer just about knowledge transfer
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30. It means helping teams work learn together, share
their knowledge experiences in the flow of work.
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32. “Personal Knowledge
Management is
a set of processes
individually constructed,
to help each of us
make sense of the world and
work more effectively.”
Harold Jarche

33. filter
synthesise
what
how
with whom
PKM
“PKM is our
is our partthe
part of of
the
social learning
socialcontract”
learning
contract

34. The connected workplace
demands a new set of skills

35. The world of work has changed
There is no such thing as a job for life - only a life of jobs.
“Estimated that current students will have more than 10 jobs by the
time they are 38.”
An individual’s knowledge and
skills will be out of date
within 5 years.
“A college degree will be
out of date long before
the loan is paid off.”
It’ll be up to every individual
to remain marketable.
An employer will likely
only train staff do their job.

36. What does this
mean for
higher education?

37. It’s not just about adding social tools to instructional practices …
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38. … but building social competence within a PKM framework to prepare them for
the new world of work

39. (1) Explain the rationale for PKM, and the underlying framework of
seek, sense and share

40. (2) Help them build a professional network of people in their
industry or profession (external experts and others)

41. (3) Encourage them to seek out other opportunities to keep up to date with
what is happening in their industry and profession

42. (4) Help them to make sense of what they find
(applying filters, synthesisng and analysing what they find)

43. (5) Encourage them to share what they learn with others
internally then externally, in different formats: presentations and blogs

44. (6) Help them to develop an online presence
to promote themselves to future employers

45. To find out more, visit
aLifeOfJobs.com

46. How are you preparing your
students for this new world of
work and learning?