The Future of ELearning is Social Learning by Jane Hart
Most eLearning simply automate the formal class-room training environment. Only difference is students can be distributed now.
Although a lot of money is spent on creating engaging, interactive, multimedia courseware, one vital ingredient is missing: Other People.
Many companies adopt a blended approach to bring in the other people aspect. But even face?to?face events are often delivered in a fairly traditional way.
Meanwhile outside of the formal learning environment in online colleges (online courses, classroom, workshops, etc) individuals are learning in other ways – often without realizing it ? whether it be by reading, listening or watching or simply by talking to one another.
Only recently informal learning been recognized as important part of learning and that it needs to be supported within an organization.
This presentation explains how:
