Social Learning

What is Social Learning?
Social learning is not a new concept on its own, but as it’s applied in today’s digital world, social learning is changing the way learners find, retrieve, and share information—and the way large organizations are training employees. Social Learning Theory evolved in the 1970’s out of the work of psychologist Albert Bandura and others. The idea is simple: people can learn by observing others—a fact TV commercials exploit regularly when they model the desired effects of a product.

Today, social learning has taken on new meaning as learners seek to gather information from online networking and collaboration. Social learning is about harnessing the power of the internet, social media tools, and online communities. With social learning, large organizations now have the ability to create and share user-generated content through collaborative, informal learning environments tailored to your culture, your processes, and your LMS environment. As practitioners of new social learning methods, Media 1 has the strategies and the strategists to help you find what works and what doesn’t in your organization. Ask us how!

Media 1 offers expertise in developing innovative social learning and collaborative online solutions.

In particular, the Media 1 team has demonstrated experience in the following:

• Cohort Learning (Reusable Group Classrooms)—blended facilitated and self-paced online learning experiences where fellow classmates can work through a curriculum together, moving through training as a group and sharing ongoing experiences. It is a place where individual and team progress can be tracked, rewarded, shared and celebrated. These work well for:
• Sales
• Onboarding (company/department/role)
• HiPo/Succession Development (leadership)
  
• Curriculum Guidance—directs learners to the right LMS courses and other targeted learning experiences available through multiple sources based on a specific job role or desired learning path.
• Communities of Practice—collaborative online environments where participants can learn, compete and excel with the goal of achieving mastery-level of skills. Participants learn on their own and from each other.
• Media Sharing—upload and rate private videos and podcast, a great way to distribute and share frequently used media resources from presenations to speakers to tips of the day.
• Performance/Workflow Support—provides just-in-time procedural guidance and/or direction in decision making.

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