What is Social Learning? Interviews From The 2011 Enterprise 2.0 Conference

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Last November, the Knoodle team attended the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara. The overarching theme of the conference was about "Building Social Business", so we thought we'd interview some of the attendees at the event and ask what they think "social learning" is.

Keep in mind that most of the attendees are not the "professional trainer" types (i.e., people with instructional design, HR, organizational development, learning or training in their titles) who may be more familiar with the term "social learning". Check out our video interviews below.

"What is Social Learning?"

There were some very interesting answers! Here are a few phrases that stood out to me:

• When I learn with other people
• Learning through engagement with your peers
• Not as structured as classroom learning
• Collaboration
• Real-time
• Many-to-many
• Knowledge sharing
• Sharing information in more natural ways
• Leveraging expertise
• Leveraging content generated crowdsourced through my employees or through businesses, their social graph, and presenting it back to the end user community

Ooh, I like the last bullet point! And please forgive the cheesy inspirational music near the end when someone said our company name correctly.

So, what do you think social learning is, and how do you foster it in your organization?

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