Last week I was in New York City where I gave the keynote at the International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace. The title was Social learning; the changing face of workplace learning.â?¦

All of the stuff that people do on the internet in the span of 1 minute. Including emails, Google searches, tweets, Facebook likes, Instagram uploads, Amazon purchases, porn viewing, and more. â?¦

Online social workshop at the Social Learning Centre starts Monday 27 May.

Organising a formal online social learning experience for the workplace is much more than just requiring people to use some social media tools in an online course, rather it means applying 5 fundamental pedagogical principles:

1 – scaffolding the social learning experience
2 – offering as much autonomy as possible
3 – focusing on enabling the social interaction
4 – supporting the experience with content as appropriate
5 – and driving it with a performance outcome in mind

You can read more about the importance of these principles for underpinning a successful formal online social learning experience in my blog post, 5 principles for a successful formal online social learning experience.â?¦

There has been a lot of talk about the use of social media tools in formal workplace learning; and I am regularly asked to review initiatives of this kind. In many instances, the use of social tools has simply been “bolted-on” or “shoe-horned” into existing training or e-learning practices, in which case it doesn’t tend to work very well at all.â?¦

As part of the Learning & Performance Institute’s Webinar programme:

Date: Wednesday 8th May 2013
Starts: 3.00pm (UK BST)
Finishes: 4.00pm (UK BST)
Presenter: Harold Jarche & Jane Hart

In the digitally connected enterprise everyone will need a new set of personal and social workplace skills, including:

Personal knowledge management skillsâ?¦ – in order to make sense of, and learn from, the constant stream of information that they encounter from social channels both inside and outside the organisation. [...]