Brent Schlenker

Mark Oehlert

Join Mark Oehlert and Brent Schlenker for a comprehensive look at Web2.0 technologies impacting the learning landscape of YOUR organization.  And it WILL impact your organization.  This not a question of “IF” but of “WHEN.” The influx of technologies like blogs, wikis, and RSS into the enterprise is a trickle that will grow into a flood in the coming year. Other “2.0” pieces like social bookmarking, tagging and enterprise-level Mashups are changing the way learning organizations think about their learning solutions, development processes, delivery methods, and adding value to their customers. The real hard part is that most of the challenges here are cultural and not technological Find out how to define Collaborative Learning in your environment Understand the organizational, cultural and technological implications of these technologies Investigate how these technologies offer new ways to provide learning value to your stakeholders Get hands-on familiarity with the most popular tools and technologies Discover how to use these tools to help stay current with developments in this field

Seminar Outline

• Introduction: Why Collaborative Learning?
  • New technologies support existing informal learning
  • It’s not all about technology, its about the people
• Concept: The alignment between formal and informal learning
  • The modes and methods of informal learning
  • Collaborative learning supports/extends existing formal learning
  • Your corporate culture will change...not if, but when.
  • The big picture 
• Understanding the space: Blogs, Wikis, RSS, and social networking
  • en-ABLE-ing Informal Learning – searchable, editable, linkable, feedable, taggable.
  • Examples – blog and wiki as CMS, open communication improves productivity
  • New Roles - Knowledge Farming, or Gardening
• Design: Working through a case study
  • Analysis – Everyone is a SME at something; current IT infrastructure; identifying leaders at the bottom, top down or bottom up?  It depends.
  • Specification – Start with what you already have; how will you measure success; be flexible and adjust as you go
• Production: We are all Consumers AND Producers
  • Consuming – RSS; Readers; Dashboards, best known methods
  • Producing – Blogs, wikis, Flickr, YouTube, and more
  • Getting Social - Facebook, LinkedIn, NING, social bookmarking, status updates
• Up the Organization:
  • The business case – IT infrastructure, integrating LMS, HR, Legal
  • Implementation – Success start from the bottom and the top
• Summary & Closing Discussion

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