Object Centered Sociality
Wow. I just read this mind-blowing post by Jyri Engestrom in response to my post about leaving Linked In. It's very well thought out and opens a whole new perspective to social networking for me that I completely, 100% sign on to: Basically I'm defending an alternative approach to social networks here, which I call 'object centered sociality' following the sociologist Carin Knorr Cetina. I'll try to articulate the conceptual difference between the two theories and briefly demonstrate that object-centered sociality helps us to understand better why some social networking services succeed while others don't.Russell's disappointment in LinkedIn implies that the term 'social networking' makes little sense if we leave out the objects that mediate the ties between people. Think about the object as the reason why people affiliate with each specific other and not just anyone. This is one of those days when I love blogging. Very cool. -Russ
Le social learning, nouvel air du e-learning
Définition : Le social learning se caractérise comme l’application d’outils de partage, de connaissance sur une plateforme entre apprenants dans une optique collaborative. C’est le nouveau concept qui va révolutionner la formation dans les années à venir. Les outils du social learning sont directement issus du Web 2.0 : blogs, micro-blogging (Twitter,…),Wiki, partage de Bookmark (Delicious,…), ou encore réseaux sociaux (Facebook, Viadéo,…).Le social learning est l’évolution du blended learning, ce dernier mélange la formation classique et le e-learning. Explications : Cette démarche collaborative de la transmission des savoirs a réellement évolué avec le développement des réseaux sociaux. L’un des problèmes du e-learning est bien souvent, l’arrêt en cours de formation. Exemple : Ce mode de formation a été remis au goût du jour par l’accroissement du web 2.0 et des réseaux sociaux.
Leaky Grammar | Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning
Why Social Learning Works | Harvard Business Publishing
As defined in the book, The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today (Harper Business, May 2010) social learning is learning that is collaborative, immediate, relevant and presented in the context of an individual’s unique work environment. Increasingly organizations are creating internal social networks to allow employees and in some cases partners, to communicate, collaborate, innovate and tap into the collective intelligence of the global enterprise. In this webcast, Jeanne Meister profiles three global organizations that have successfully adopted social learning platforms to accelerate knowledge sharing and problem-solving across their organization. Each case study includes a brief overview of the business drivers leading to the development and launch of a social learning platform, as well as critical success factors that resulted in increased business results.
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Why Social Learning Benefits Your Business
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Classroom training isn’t dead, but it also isn’t the answer for every training need. Social tools are changing the game when it comes to employee learning. Organizations can create collaborative workplaces where employees can learn from each other instead of only learning in a formal setting or from the proverbial "company expert." For training programs to be effective, companies must use the right methods and medium for their training sessions and their audience. What It Means Tony Bingham, president and CEO of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), defines social learning as “learning that happens outside a formal structure or classroom and is really the way people have always learned from each other. In the book Social Media at Work, written by Arthur L. Social Learning Benefits
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the social/situational orientation to learning @ the informal education homepage
The social/situational orientation to learning. It is not so much that learners acquire structures or models to understand the world, but they participate in frameworks that that have structure. Learning involves participation in a community of practice. Social learning theory ‘posits that people learn from observing other people. By definition, such observations take place in a social setting’ (Merriam and Caffarella 1991: 134). Within psychology, initially it was behaviourists who looked to how people learned through observation. Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people ha d to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Attending to a behaviour; remembering it as a possible model or paradigm; and playing out how it may work for them in different situations (rehearsal) are key aspects of observational learning. Symbols retained from a modelling experience act as a template with which one’s actions are compared.
The Instructional Use of Learning Objects -- Online Version
This is the online version of The Instructional Use of Learning Objects, a new book that tries to go beyond the technological hype and connect learning objects to instruction and learning. You can read the full text of the book here for free. The chapters presented here are © their respective authors and are licensed under the Open Publication License, meaning that you are free to copy and redistribute them in any electronic or non-commercial print form. In addition to reading the book, at this website you can participate in discussions of the book's chapters with the authors and others, submit any corrections should you find errors in a chapter, and discuss other issues related to learning objects, instruction, and learning. The book is divided into five major sections. 1.0. 2.0. 3.0. 4.0. 5.0. This site is maintained by David Wiley. Copyright © 2000 by the authors listed above.
