Social Media + Learning = Social Learning

New web tools, known as Web 2.0 or Social Media tools are impacting all our lives - whether as personal, group or enterprise tools.  They are also creating a new phase of Learning known as (E-)Learning 2.0 or Social Learning.  Social Learning is about people ...

What is social media and why is it important? 

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• Want to find out more about the importance of social media for learning?

  • My article from E-Learning Guild's Learning Solutions Magazine - Understanding Today’s Learner - explains why social learning is important.

• How engaged with social media are you?

  • Take a look at the Model for Engagement with Social Media I have developed

  • Take the quiz and profile yourself against the different levels of engagement

• How can you, as a learning professional, get engaged with social media? Don't know where to begin!

  • An Introduction to Social Learning provides you with a practical approach to getting started with using social media for both formal and informal learning

• How do you create, support and/or implement social (media) solutions for learning and performance support?  Here are some of my recent resources

  • 10 Tips for successfully implementing social media for learning and performance support in the workplace - here are some fundamental principles to follow.

  • My 3-part series on Social Media and Learning for Inside Learning Technologies magazine

    1. Social bookmarking, file sharing and social networking

    2. Microblogging services

    3. Collaborative working and Learning

• Want to build a Social Media/Learning strategy?
  Most organisations have been making random and ad hoc use of social media initiatives (e.g. blogging, podcasting, social bookmarking, etc).  Let me help you build a social media strategy for use of social media across the enterprise.

• Want to build a Social Learning Network?
  For more information about Social Learning Networks, visit Social Learning Networks.