Social Media for Learning

Following on from my previous post where I discussed the need for spelling out the use of social media for learning, I have now pulled together a new resource, which looks at how social media can be used for different types of learning.


You can categorise the use of social media in the following 5 different ways:

1.IOL - Intra-Organisational Learning - how social media tools can be used to keep employees up to date and up to speed on strategic and other internal initiatives

2.FSL - Formal Structured Learning - how educators (teachers, trainers, learning designers) as well as students can use social media within education and training - for courses, classes, workshops etc

3.GDL - Group Directed Learning - how groups of individuals - teams, projects, study groups etc - can use social media to work and learn together (a "group" could just be two people, so coaching and mentoring falls into this category)

4.PDL - Personal Directed Learning - how individuals can use social media for their own (self-directed) personal or professional learning

5.ASL - Accidental & Serendipitous Learning - how individuals, by using social media, can learn without consciously realising it (aka incidental or random learning)


All you need to do now, is to decide which type of learnings you or your organisation want to support/enable - and how.