From Social Learning to Workforce Collaboration | Workforce Collaboration

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by Jane Hart

Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that I changed the title of my main blog from “Learning in the Social Workplace” to “Workforce Collaboration” Why? Well, to try and avoid the “learning” word or at least the term “social learning”! Let me explain.

Despite the fact that numerous studies have shown that most workplace learning takes place outside training - the term “learning” is for many people still synonymous with training. They simply don’t realize (or value the fact) they are learning (ie acquiring new knowledge and skills) every day in everything they do – because they have been conditioned to believe that learning only happens in a classroom or an online course – that involves studying or memorization – and when a teacher is involved.

As social tools have emerged and are being used by individuals to address their own learning and performance problems (outside training), I thought these old perceptions might change, but unfortunately the term “social learning” is now being used to refer to the use of “social media for training” – despite the fact that “social learning” is something that happens all the time – with or without social media tools – and in fact takes place far more outside training than within it! ....

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