Bricolage

Kevin Jones (from the Cascadia blog, but not this time) has presented at the ASTD TechKnowledge Conference in San Antonio this week and shows the role of Social Learning as the tail of the learning process.


He goes on to cite the 6 Technical Requirements/Principles for Social Learning
from Andrew McAfee’s paper: Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration
1. Search – They must find the information in the amount they need – Now.
2. Links – Must link to other information. More links = more resources for discovery and learning.
3. Authoring – Anyone can author. Limit the limits. Let limits come naturally.
4. Tags – Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy. It is a different way of organizing information. This can be difficult to wrap a mind around the first few times, but it is incredibly useful.
5. Extensions – Examples: Amazon’s “We also recommend…” by subject, author, popular content, most recent content. Rate content, social bookma rking.
6. Signals – to let users know when information they care about has been published or updated. RSS is preferred, email notifications only if necessary,

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