Social Learning: Not a Rocket Science

In last couple of years, “Social Learning” as a terminology has been highly discussed but loosely used in industry set-ups. This may be due to lack of understanding of the concept and its application within employee groups; resulting in failure in generating sustainable engagement. This failure in turn results in loss of faith in the theory and its usability in most organizations.

In one of my presentations to promote Social Learning, we discussed an interesting question – “Why does implementation of Social Learning seem like Rocket Science?” For example, in technology enabled social learning efforts, putting a technology in place is simple, may be matter of few days or weeks, depending on the complexities you want in your platform. However, make that technology “click” with people on a sustainable basis often fails.

In my next 4 blogs, we will discuss the Social Learning in depth, starting from the needs analysis of Social Learning to building traction and sustaining it.

For now, let’s clearly understand that Social Learning is not a Rocket Science, its just S.I.M.P.L.E – “Social and Informal Model for Participative Learning and Engagement”.