Jane Hart was asked to explain what “social learning” actually is in an organizational context. Rather than provide a bland definition, she provides some quotes from some key resources that will give a flavour of what it is all about. 
L'entreprise de demain sera connecté et le collaborateur également.
Considérer l’outil supportant ces dynamiques comme une bulle isolée du reste de l’intranet est déjà un début d’attitude suicidaire... 
The debate over whether the purpose of college is to train students for jobs or to provide them with a broad education erupted again in the comments section of a Chronicle article last week. Rather than rehash that argument in this blog, I want to touch on the main thrust of last week’s piece: what employers think of today’s college graduates. OK .. so it looks like the Web, hyperlinks and ’social’ platforms for interaction are here to stay (unless electricity grids fail or corporations and governments completely take over the Web). Via Frederic DOMON 
One of the biggest values in Enterprise Social Networking is opening up conversations through transparency and the serendipity that is discovered by being aware of these conversations even if they are not a core focus. Let’s start at the core of Google+; the circle. 
At DevLearn, presentations (Slideshare included) from:
Charles Dennings - Do you feel the need to manage learning?
Harold Jarche - Managing in a Networked World
Jane Hart - From Command & Control to Encourage & Engage: A new mindset for learning leaders 
Michael Fullan has been working to identify the right drivers for whole system education reform. Via Susan Bainbridge 
"Use of social media (externally) for the (co)-creation and sharing of CONTENT/information and collaboration, as well as the building of trusted networks of friends and colleagues for PEOPLE/interaction is now impacting the way we both work and learn within organisations, and means that existing internal systems (intranet, LMS and email) are being surpassed by new social and collaboration tools with more appropriate functionality for today’s world. As a consequence of this we are also seeing the convergence of working and learning." ~Jane Hart 
Here are 5 more resources found this week by Jane Hart that look at different social approaches to working and learning. 
It seems that the latest buzzword around the web is 'content curation'. There are literally millions of posts about this already, and new tools and new marketing strategies are being deployed to meet this new demand. Even the kids are curating !! 
While content is valuable, context is significantly more precious. To know your colleague who wrote that phenomenal blogpost, to be able to see how people used her ideas, to be able to look at the other contributions by this user, etc are a generative side to the knowledge management puzzle. It's a side that opens up possibilities for serendipity which traditional content focussed approaches are unlikely to achieve. "- We are already seeing the knowledge worker (creative, passionate, innovative) marketplace becoming more competitive. Whether you are part of a family, organizational team or business in a supply chain, systems thinking is a valuable approach to understanding the complexity of today's world. Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline, Senior lecturer at MIT and Founder of the Society for Organizational Learning shares his perspectives on leadership and systems thinking with IBM. Senge focuses on the problems that are most difficult to solve and the mental models today's leaders need in order to build a smarter planet. Leaders today need to be able to be prepared reassess their strategies, work across multiple groups to find solutions and have the vision to work through high leverage solutions over time. Working smarter means working in ways that are collective and are based on collective intelligence across cities and supply chains to produce social, ecological and economic well being. Via BeerBergman |
For a day and a half in January 2012, twenty-one thought leaders from four continents gathered in a ski resort at Stoos in Switzerland to discuss what could be done to accelerate the transformation of organizations and their management. The idea was to figure out how organizations could become more profitable for the organizations and their shareholders, as well as being better for those doing the work and better for those for whom the work is being done. The tipping point isn’t about replacing capitalism with socialism: it’s about reinventing organizations so that they become more productive for shareholders, more inspiring for workers and more delightful for customers. 
Le projet Atlantique Branché est une initiative de l'Université Sainte-Anne financée majoritairement par l'Agence de promotion économique du Canada atlantique et mise en oeuvre par les quatre RDÉE de l'Atlantique sous la direction de RDÉE Î.-P.-É. Le projet, dont la mission est d'améliorer la compétitivité et d'enrichir les entreprises francophones de l'atlantique en économie du savoir, est composé de trois volets : un sondage, le forum, et la boîte à outils.
Jane Hart: "It seems to me we often waste the opportunity of bringing people together by lecturing/presenting at them, rather than using the time more for discussion and collaboration or even experimentation and problem solving. As it is, when I am participating in webinars myself, I often find most of the interesting stuff happens in the conversations taking place in the chat! And I’ve not yet participated in any webinar that has made use of breakout sessions for collaborative activities." 
Cisco surveyed 2,800 college students and recently employed graduates and discovered that two thirds will actively enquire about a firm’s social media policies during a job interview, with some 56% refusing to work at a company that bans social media.
When you consider that a third of the students polled “consider the Internet to be as important as air, water, food, and shelter”, this isn’t all that surprising, especially as the internet for many young people nowadays is Facebook and Twitter. 
As we work in a time of rapid change, with students who are digital natives, from within a dramatically new information landscape, the best description of the 21st Century teacher is Master Learner. 
2.0 technologies are enabling technologies that connect us with each other, facilitating communication and collaboration.
To improve, we must know our biggest failings. In the training and development field, our five biggest failures are as follows: - We forget to minimize forgetting and improve remembering. - We don’t provide training follow-through. 
There was a time when we could see our careers as a sort of "finished product." We could go into maintenance mode, resting on our laurels. At a minimum, we could be reasonably secure that if we kept doing what our companies asked us to do, we could count on some level of job security. Those days are gone. 
Like many other companies, Unilever is recruiting from a generation whose expectations of technology have been profoundly shaped by Facebook, mobile apps and other innovations. But it isn’t just “digital natives” who are shocked by the state of some of the technology in their workplaces. The rapid spread of tablets and smartphones, and the magnetic attraction of social networks and other online tools such as Twitter, mean that people of all ages have grown accustomed to having powerful yet easy-to-use technologies at their fingertips. Many of them want the same stuff at work too.
"The opinions about what you should do are as many as there are stars in the sky at night. Your boss wants to ban any and all sites where you have interaction with the outside world, and he wants you to just work. You want to connect with people to get inspired to do the same. What is right, and what is not? 
First of all, social learning pre-dates social media by thousands of years. We have always and always will learn socially. It isn't the only way we learn but it is a highly significant element. Secondly, social media has very many outcomes other than learning. Via Frederic DOMON 
Philippe Vallat : "I have recently finished reading the book 'The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few' by James Surowiecki and I can strongly recommend it to anyone that is interested in how opinions are conformed, and why self-organisation might..." Via Howard Rheingold |
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