Online social workshop at the Social Learning Centre starts Monday 27 May. Organising a formal online social learning experience for the workplace is much more than just requiring people to use some social media tools in an online course, rather it means applying 5 fundamental pedagogical principles: scaffolding the social learning experience offering as much autonomy as possible focusing on enabling the social interaction supporting the experience with content as appropriate, and driving it with a performance outcome in mind... Continue reading

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I just read a blog post from Slideshare to mark the fact it has reached 10 million downloads. Impressive! But I was absolutely delighted to see that my own Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 slideset was featured in the Education category - not only in the post itself but in the supporting infographic (embedded below). Just for information, this year's slideset has to date had 438K views and last year's 2011 slideset has over 844K views. Continue reading

“A revolution is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time.” (Wikipedia) I've had such a lot of interest in the new book I'm working on, The Workplace Learning Revolution, that I decided to create a free mini e-book version. This 24 page document provides an overview of how the Internet is changing the way we learn at work and how organisations can support these new ways of learning. It... Continue reading

As part of the Learning & Performance Institute's Webinar programme: Date: Wednesday 8th May 2013 Starts: 3.00pm (UK BST) Finishes: 4.00pm (UK BST) Presenters: Harold Jarche & Jane Hart In the digitally connected enterprise everyone will need a new set of personal and social workplace skills, including: Personal knowledge management skills - in order to make sense of, and learn from, the constant stream of information that they encounter from social channels both inside and outside the organisation. Collaboration skills... Continue reading

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From the results of the Learning in the Workplace survey and my analysis of how smart workers use social media to work and learn today, 5 key characteristics of how Knowledge Workers like to learn at work have emerged. You can find them summarised here. Continue reading

The Learning in the Workplace Survey has now been taken by over 600 people, and although it is still open if you want to cast your vote, I am releasing some interim findings HERE today as the pattern of results has been pretty stable for some time now. Continue reading

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Last year I ran an anonymous survey asking people to rate different ways of learning at work - and the results were widely reported. I've opened it up again this year - and once you submit your own choices, you will be able to view the results submitted so far, plus an analysis of what this means for L&D practices. Here's the link to the survey Continue reading

Following my earlier post: ABC: 10 reasons not to create a course – and 10 other options, I have had a huge amount of interest in finding out more about the different ABC (Anything But Courses) options I mentioned. So in this post I am going to talk about a simple – and low-cost – training model that I recommend whenever there is a requirement for workers to demonstrate they have “learned” (that is read and understood) some content, and... Continue reading

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My annual Top 100 Tools for Learning list has become a popular resource - if the Slideshare viewing stats are anything to go by. For instance the 2011 presentation has now been viewed over 800,000 times, and the 2012 has been viewed nearly 400,000 times. So since the New Year I have been working on a major new, supplementary resource, A Practical Guide to the Top 100 Tools for Learning. This Guide describes the essential features of each of the... Continue reading

Although I tweet links to interesting resources as I find them, I collate them in my 2013 Reading List at the end of each month, and pick out the ones that I find particularly useful, valuable or impactful. So here is my selection from March 2013. Continue reading

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