Live Webinar – September 14, 2011 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C Free PDU

“Social learning” and “informal learning” are among the training industry’s hottest phrases these days. But there’s so much confusion over what they mean, and what they mean to those of us in the business.

A few truths:

• Social learning isn’t new.
• Social learning isn’t necessarily ‘managed’, ‘launched’, ‘controlled’, or ‘measured’.
• People in the workplace are learning all the time – without us.
• Those people likely don’t think of what they’re doing as “learning”.

In this session we’ll spend some time looking at real examples of social and informal learning as it happens in workplaces all the time, every day. Along the way we’ll generate some ideas for locating, supporting and facilitating social learning opportunities toward the greater goal of enhancing organizational performance.

Speaker: Jane Bozarth (LinkedIn profile), Ph.D., eLearning Director of the State of North Carolina

Dr. Jane Bozarth has been a training practitioner since 1989. In her years with North Carolina, USA state government she has served as Staff Development Specialist for DHHS, the Training Director for the Department of Justice, and the E-Learning Coordinator for the NC Office of State Personnel. Jane’s specialty, finding low-cost ways of creating or purchasing quality e-learning solutions, led to publication of E-Learning Solutions on a Shoestring: Help for the Chronically Underfunded Trainer (Pfeiffer Essential Resources for Training and HR Professionals) and Better Than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging e-Learning with PowerPoint. Her third book, From Analysis to Evaluation, with CD-ROM: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Trainers, was published in 2008. Her newest Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning (Essential Tools Resource) book is now available.

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