My presentation from the Learning Performance Institute Learning Directors Network session in July 2014. Exploring the Social Age of learning and it's impacts on learning design for both organisations and individuals. The Session explores Social Learning and Leadership, the role of Communities, the Social Contract between organisations and individuals and the need for us to protect those who are disenfranchised through technology or culture. It also includes the early iterations of my latest work around Creativity and Innovation in organisations.

1. Creating effective
learning in the Social Age
Julian Stodd BSc (hons) MA
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Captain at SeaSalt Learning

2. Effective Learning in the Social Age!
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Learning is changing: facilitated by technology, driven by changes in the ways we work, live and play. In this session we'll be exploring the ecosystem of the Social Age and
looking at a methodology for how people learn that we can apply across every channel.!
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• Exploring how the ecosystem of the Social Age impacts on organisational learning!
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• The evolving nature of work: remote working, the death of the office, social collaborative technology!
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• The social contract: understanding how our relationship with organisations is adapting and issues of trust and change that impact on this!
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• Knowledge and learning: exploring how knowledge is no longer enough. What we have to do is create meaning, to be effective.!
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• Methodology for learning: exploring how we can anchor everything against a learning methodology - context, demonstration, exploration, reflection, assessment and
footsteps.!
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• Exploring how this is applied across different learning modalities: face to face, technology enabled, social, mobile etc!
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• Exploring the benefits of this type of holistic approach!
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Happy to provide free copies of these books that may be relevant:!
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Julian Stodd's learning methodology [https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/384181]!
Exploring the World of Social Learning [https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/204432]

4. The Social Age
• The semi formal layers that surround the formal
• Supported by communities: constantly connected
• Facilitated by technology: effortlessly
• An evolved nature of work and play
• Beyond knowledge: it's about creating meaning

6. The Social Age
• What is different about your social life than from 10
years ago?
• What is different about your work from ten years
ago?
• What is different about how you learn from 10 years
ago?

7. The nature of work in
the Social Age

8. What does the organisation
give you?
• Technology - but is it agile? Is it a mechanism of
control?
• Space - but do you need it? Do the walls constrain
you?
• Community - but you have your own. What's it's
purpose?
• Structure - codified knowledge: but is it up to date?

9. Our evolving relationship
with knowledge
• In the old world: knowledge was power
• In the Social Age, power comes through reputation
and sharing, humility and community
• Roles are contextual: we are adaptable
• We need to utilise knowledge to create meaning

13. We need to create
spaces for creativity

16. What do effective
organisations look like?

18. Social Leadership

21. Social Collaborative
Technology

24. What have you got?
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Mail
• Shazam
• Google Maps
• A game
• A railway timetable
• Photos
• Music

25. What have you got?
• Facebook - community, sharing, collaboration, cohesion
• Twitter - sharing, news, highly curated
• Mail - sharing, volume, formal?
• Shazam - identifying, capturing, sharing, learning
• Google Maps - functional, performance enhancing, external knowledge
• A game - distracting, competing, networked
• A railway timetable - knowledge, performance enhancing, just in time
• Photos - capturing, narrating, sharing
• Music - entertaining, cohesive

26. How should we
structure learning?

28. How does your
organisation use
knowledge?

29. How does your organisation
use knowledge?
• To inform
• To control
• To do things
• To create transparency
• To build tribal capability
• To earn money

30. How does your organisation
control knowledge
• Through technology
• Through elders
• Through physical constraints
• Through geography
• Through mindset
• Through formal heirarchy

31. Communities

34. Does your organisation have
formal communities?
• Were they put in place by the organisation or
emergent from the community?
• Are they used to broadcast or co-create?
• Who owns them?
• Are you on top of issues of privacy and
permanence?

36. Sense Making Spaces

40. Authenticity
• We are experts at spotting authenticity
• Only authentic tones of voice generate engagement
• Curiosity
• Humility
• Recognises everyday reality

41. Reputation
• The Social Age is a Reputation economy
• We can't rely on our positional authority for social
learning

43. Reputation subverts
hierarchy

44. Exercise: create your
framework for moderation
• What is your stance?
• What is your tone of voice?
• Where will your authority come from?
• How does this fit within the social contract?
• Will you share this with your learners or co-create it
with them?
• Are you prepared, as an organisation, to reframe?

45. A methodology for
learning

54. • 8 week scaffolded
experience
• Gateways are calls
• Structured by 4 Q's a
section
• Social space for
collaboration
• Group narrative
shared through blog
Example of Scaffolding

55. • 5 week scaffolded
experience
• Learners seek out
experiences within
the scaffolding
• They quantify what
they find
• The community
carries out the 'sense
making'
Example of Scaffolding

57. STAY IN TOUCH
• @julianstodd
• www.julianstodd.wordpress.com
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• www.SeaSaltLearning.com
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• All materials © Julian Stodd under a Creative
Commons license