Social Learning Enriches the Corporate and Academic Environment
The phenomenon known as Social Learning is about to take academic and corporate education to the next step in the evolution of learning. Social learning supports:
* Shifting the emphasis for learning away from the traditional instructor-to-student lecture model to one that develops student as collaborative critical thinkers
* Engaging larger communities of thought leaders and facilitators to interact with the cohort of students in a formal program
* Improving instructor’s ability to analyze the journey to learning outcomes by seeing how understanding evolves
* Increasing transparency into skills and knowledge that are developing, and improving their transference to the work place
* Offering students personalized paths through the curriculum to adapt to each student’s current knowledge level and experience
* Enhancing learning experiences through peer review, collaborative team projects, and online discussions and reflection
* Creating a global learning laboratory that connects to a global community of students, teachers and thought leaders, and a broader, deeper volume of work on the program subject matter
* Enabling students to become more actively involved in planning their education and taking greater responsibility for achieving their own personal educational goals
The technologies are now maturing to create this rich and powerful learning environment, and we’ll profile and characterize the adoption curve here.
To see one example of social learning in action right now, visit: http://pennlpscommons.org
* Shifting the emphasis for learning away from the traditional instructor-to-student lecture model to one that develops student as collaborative critical thinkers
* Engaging larger communities of thought leaders and facilitators to interact with the cohort of students in a formal program
* Improving instructor’s ability to analyze the journey to learning outcomes by seeing how understanding evolves
* Increasing transparency into skills and knowledge that are developing, and improving their transference to the work place
* Offering students personalized paths through the curriculum to adapt to each student’s current knowledge level and experience
* Enhancing learning experiences through peer review, collaborative team projects, and online discussions and reflection
* Creating a global learning laboratory that connects to a global community of students, teachers and thought leaders, and a broader, deeper volume of work on the program subject matter
* Enabling students to become more actively involved in planning their education and taking greater responsibility for achieving their own personal educational goals
The technologies are now maturing to create this rich and powerful learning environment, and we’ll profile and characterize the adoption curve here.
To see one example of social learning in action right now, visit: http://pennlpscommons.org
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Comment by Sue Todd on May 8, 2009 at 1:43pm - Couldn't agree more. I attended the Educa conference in Berlin in 2007. I think some of the UK colleges are making some good progress. At that time, they were building 3D environments in second life and building communities around courses. They seemed to be early adopters with Web 2.0 - and i'm sure there programs have evolved since then. Thanks for the note.
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Comment by Kevin D. Jones on May 8, 2009 at 10:29am - I see two choices. 1) Academia figure it out or 2) they become more and more irrelevant. But I have seen little movement. Sure, we have some courses online from some universities, but the structure behind them isn't changing. THAT is the real challenge and the limiting factor.
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