The Social Learning Lab & Seminar will provide a unique, in-depth and hands-on exploration of the world of social networking technologies, methodologies and innovations being deployed in organizations around the globe.

Social Learning is the strategic design and deployment of social networking technologies and methodologies for learning, collaboration and knowledge in your organization.

Through hands-on lab experience with various tools and technologies, targeted presentations, exercises, interactive scenarios and problem-based learning, participants will gain a foundational knowledge of new Social Learning concepts and approaches that can be applied for Learning and Development:  

Topics Addressed in our Social Learning Lab & Seminar:

  • What is Social Learning?
  • What is Collaborative Learning?
  • Why do people want to be in Social Networks at work?
  • How can Social Learning be Instructionally Designed?
  • Sedating the Legal Department about the risks and compliance issues of Social Learning
  • The Impact of Social Learning on Duration, Time, Engagement and Transfer
  • Mapping Social Learning to the MASIE Learning Model:
    • Motivation & Anticipatory “Set”
    • Information Presentation
    • Context for Content   
    • Checking for Understanding   
    • Mentoring & Coaching
    • Remediation
    • Simulation
    • Transfer
    • Content Design & Collaboration
    • Role of Social Learning in Retention and Talent
    • Technologies for Social Learning
  • Social Networking Systems:
    • Open Source (eg. NING, Mahara)
    • Public Systems (eg. Facebook, Google, LinkedIn)
    • Community Systems (eg. Mazinga, Communispace)
    • Collaboration Environments (eg. Wikis, Document Management)
    • Learning Systems (eg. LMS, LCMS)
    • Performance Support Models
    • 3D & Virtual Worlds
    • Email and Paper Based
  • Costs, Implications and Integration Issues
  • What are the generational factors at work in Social Learning?
  • Who “Owns” Social Learning Systems and Processes
  • Projects in Social Learning
  • Formal, Informal, Overt and Covert Social Learning
  • The Future of Social Learning
  • The Skills of Facilitation in Social Learning
  • Social Learning with e-Learning, Classroom Learning & Blended Learning

Each participant in the Social Learning Lab & Seminar will design two Social Learning projects while in Saratoga Springs that will be “live” for several months. These can be used as a “beta” or “sandbox” to experiment with Social Learning in your organization.