What does Social Media have to do with Learning? Stella Lee Blended Learning Leader, Global Learning Team Golder Associates, Inc., Canada iCore Researcher, SCIS, Athabasca University Learn@Work Week – Sept 20, 2012 Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adoyle/6953976455/
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What does Social Media have to do with
Learning?
Stella LeeBlended Learning Leader, Global Learning TeamGolder Associates, Inc., Canada
• Social media includes web-based and mobile based technologies which are used to turn communication into interactive dialogue among organizations, communities, and individuals.
Two ways of looking at it
1.systems - e.g. Flickr, YouTube, del.icio.us
2. technological approaches - e.g. collaborative filtering, recommender, shared tagging
Social Media Trends and UsagePhoto credit: http://www.arikhanson.com/2011/01/21/social-media-trends-whats-hot-for-2011/c
•Formal learning - classes Formal learning - classes and online workshops and and online workshops and events, is the source of only events, is the source of only 10% to 20% of what we 10% to 20% of what we learn at worklearn at work
- Jay Cross
Social media is everywhere...
•Marketing and communication
•Organizational learning and development
•Personal development
•Research
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A “DIY” model
•A lot more amateurish effort (Shirky, 2008)
•It is scattered all over, many overlapping effort
•It is organic/self-organizing
•A sub-culture movement (not officially supported by institutions)
Foster a dynamic social learning spacePhoto credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronknox/5237937436/
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