Social learning augmented by social media: creating better organizations for a better world
Development and Learning in Organizations
ISSN: 1477-7282
Article publication date: 30 September 2014
Abstract
Purpose
Social media provides a modern approach to working and learning with people across vast distances as easily as if they were side by side. The new tools foster a new type of social learning, offering leaders an opportunity to transform their organizations into rich learning labs where new knowledge and innovative practices emerge in real-time.
Design/methodology/approach
Based on my book published in 2010, and the work I have done with more than 100 companies on social media’s use for fostering social learning.
Findings
Social technologies should be used to replace outmoded education programs with more effective and mobile means. With these tools, learners can reframe learning from a passive activity done to learners to an active and very human activity that enables people to build upon their individual and collective potential.
Originality/value
Written for this publication, yet based on the learnings since and research done originally for The New Social Learning.
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Citation
L. Conner, M. (2014), "Social learning augmented by social media: creating better organizations for a better world", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 28 No. 6, pp. 6-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLO-07-2014-0058
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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