Examples of use of social media and learning: by technology and types of learning

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Here are examples of how social media can be used for 5 types of learning:

1. IOL – Intra-Organisational Learning – how social media can be used to  keep the employees up to date and up to speed on strategic and other internal initiatives and activities
2. FSL – Formal Structured Learning – how educators (teachers, trainers, learning designers) as well as students can use social media within formal education and training
3. GDL – Group Directed Learning – how groups of individuals – teams, projects, study groups etc – can use social media to work and learn together (Note: a “group” could be as small as two people, so coaching and mentoring falls into this category)
4. PDL – Personal Directed Learning – how individuals can use social media to organise and manage their own personal or professional learning
5. ASL – Accidental & Serendipitous Learning – how individuals, by using social media, can learn without consciously realising it (aka incidental or random learning)

Below are specific ways that different types of social media can be used in each of the 5 categories