The Digitally Connected Worker: Developing and Supporting Social Learning in the Workplace

Professor Jeremy B WilliamsAsia Pacific Management Centre

Griffith Business School

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How would you describe your personal learning environment?

What have you learnt today?

this week?this month?

Who have you told?

Connectivism

Learning rests on diversity of opinions

… it is a process of connecting specialised nodes or information sources …

… the capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known

communication

of content has become less important than the

network of

communication

You, alone Through collaboration

Crowdsourcing

Is there a place for social media in the workplace?

This guy lost his job

So did this one

Personal Learning

Environment

Professional LearningNetwork

PersonalLearningNetwork

Segregating Professional and Personal Learning Networks may simply be a question of personal choice

Integrating the PLE

participatory

Our educational philosophy:

flexible

authentic

Multi-modal in format: catering to different learning styles and different life styles

Learner centric: student as consumer and producer of knowledge

Assessment of learning grounded in reality: outcome driven learning; learning that lasts beyond the test

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