Ben Betts' keynote presentation from the LearningTechDay conference, Ghent Belgium in April 2015.

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Designing Social Learning
Ben Betts
CEO, HT2
@bbetts

2. How does a thought develop?
Sparking Poking Proving
Cognitive Presence is part of the Community of Inquiry framework,
Garrison et al, 2001

3. Where do you do your best thinking?
http://tinyurl.com/oh97ln9

4. Spark
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Content &
conversations
+
freedom to think

5. Who do you tell your crazy ideas?
http://tinyurl.com/oh97ln9

6. Poke
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Write it down
Poke the box
Start a debate

7. How do you test your theories?
http://tinyurl.com/oh97ln9

8. (im)Proving
Put change into
action and see the
results
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9. This isn’t a course
It’s a learning experience design
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Sparking Poking Proving

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Spark mindset
Thought is required
Content isn’t king… curate
Keep it short… really short.

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Thought is required

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Thought is required

13. Content isn’t king… curate
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Internal Content
External Content
New Content

14. Keep it short… really short
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Dwell time (minutes)
Content length (minutes)
4 minute video 8 minute video

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Poke mindset
Contribution is required
You can ‘design’ social
Recognise good participation

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Contribution is required

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You can ‘design’ social

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Recognise good participation

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Prove mindset
Action is required
This doesn’t happen on the LMS
We can always improve

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Action is required

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This doesn’t happen on the LMS
xAPI is a way to communicate activity information like:
Ben won the big contract

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Ben won the big contract
This doesn’t happen on the LMS
xAPI is a way to communicate activity information like:

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Ben won the big contract
This doesn’t happen on the LMS
xAPI is a way to communicate activity information like:

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Ben won the big contract
This doesn’t happen on the LMS
xAPI is a way to communicate activity information like:

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Ben won the big contract
In: Ghent, BE
Client: ACME Inc
Amount: €1mm
This doesn’t happen on the LMS
xAPI is a way to communicate activity information like:

26. We can always improve
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27. Designing Social Learning
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Thought Contribution Action
Sparking Poking Proving

28. Add me on LinkedIn if you want to talk
more.
I’m the most handsome one called
‘Ben Betts’

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