15 Objections to Social Learning in 15 Days
May 31, 2008 Social Learning SIG
For the next three weeks, each business day I will be posting a new objection to Social Learning, with my answer in writing. Now, my answer may be different in practice because of the particular situation and due to the fact that not all questions are answered by words, but rather by action and experience. But at least it is a start.
I would be very interested in hearing your response as well. So please don’t be shy – post a response, even if it is only one statement.
July 29th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Love this series – I shared it with a family member asking about the information control implications of wiki-style knowledge sharing last night.
I also included this in a new post on my own blog. Keep up the good work!
July 29th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Thanks! It was great to put together. I am turning this into a presentation and delivering it at the e-Learning Guild’s DevLearn08 in November. Should be fun!
Curious – what did your family think about the implications of this style of control?
July 29th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
I suggested that she favor a least-restrictive policy and only lock down the things her organization insisted on locking e.g. HR data per your example. She seemed interested and I imagine she will be reading some of this soon herself. I can’t say we had a long discussion about it though – just a quick aside in a phone call.
January 26th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
[...] 15 Objections to Social Learning in 15 DaysSocial learning advocate Kevin Jones of Engaged Learning has recently wrapped up a great series exploring fifteen common pain points in gaining acceptance for a knowledge sharing system. Kevin’s solid answers to these common questions are good enough to reuse for your own problems. My favorite response was on the question of control: “If we let everyone learn from each other, we give up control of that information!”. That is right. For the most part, anyone can post anything. Be it right or wrong (which is tomorrow’s objection/post). And, as counterintuitive as this may seem at first, it is not all bad. [...]