The Social Semantic Server: A Flexible Framework to Support Informal Learning at the Workplace
Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences
-
Upload
alison-mcnab -
Category
Education
-
view
906 -
download
3
description
Transcript of Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences
![Page 1: Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062703/55521022b4c90520548b466a/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
INFORMAL LEARNING IN THE WORKPLACE: THE ROLE OF
UNCONFERENCES
ALISON MCNAB DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY
@ALISONMCNAB #MashDMU#ILI2012 Internet Librarian International 2012 C202: Rethinking Roles: New skills, new learning
![Page 2: Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062703/55521022b4c90520548b466a/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
WHY INFORMAL LEARNING?
• Staff development budgets• Disruptive technologies
– Social media
• The unconference “movement”• Freedom to explore
– Training Time Entitlement
![Page 3: Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062703/55521022b4c90520548b466a/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. The term "unconference" has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid one or more aspects of a conventional conference, such as high fees, sponsored presentations, and top-down organization. Wikipedia
![Page 4: Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062703/55521022b4c90520548b466a/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Oxford Dictionaries
![Page 5: Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062703/55521022b4c90520548b466a/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
STAFF DEVELOPMENT
• Formal– Remember the Library “training hour”?– Internal vs external training– Organisation-led staff development
![Page 6: Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062703/55521022b4c90520548b466a/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• Informal– Unconferences: MashLib, TeachMeets, Library Camp– Twitter: TweetUps, #LibChat– 23 Things– In-house library conferences
![Page 7: Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062703/55521022b4c90520548b466a/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
![Page 8: Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062703/55521022b4c90520548b466a/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
#MashDMU – MAKING IT LOCAL
• Regular meetings
• A hashtag!
• The #MashDMU blog
http://librarymashups.our.dmu.ac.uk/
![Page 9: Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062703/55521022b4c90520548b466a/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
#MashDMU – MAKING IT LOCAL
• Sharing good practice
• Up-skilling staff
• Service development– Enhancing the student experience
![Page 10: Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062703/55521022b4c90520548b466a/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
• #MashDMU
• Analogue Twitter
![Page 11: Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062703/55521022b4c90520548b466a/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
CHALLENGES
• Staff working patterns• Reticence about social media• Need to stop listening and start sharing!
• Extending the format– e-books unconference
![Page 12: Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062703/55521022b4c90520548b466a/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
REFERENCES
• Analogue Twitter Timothy Collinson, University of Portsmouth @timpaa
http://www.port.ac.uk/library/about/librarians/collinson/
• How to run an unconference (Lanyrd blog)http://lanyrd.com/blog/2012/unconference-howto/
• Mashed Library wikihttp://www.mashedlibrary.com/
![Page 13: Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062703/55521022b4c90520548b466a/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Thank you!
Any Questions?
Alison [email protected]
#AlisonMcNab
http://librarymashups.our.dmu.ac.uk/
![Page 14: Informal learning in the library workplace: the role of unconferences](https://reader036.fdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062703/55521022b4c90520548b466a/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)