Social+Learning

=Social Learning =

From a Social Learning perspective:
 * The unit of analysis is the group rather than the individual or the organisation as a whole. It is a group experience created, co-created by those involved
 * It happens across the whole spectrum of human activity, i.e. in all Cynefin Domains but what happens in the unordered ones (Complexity and Chaos) is the most interesting with the potential for new patterns of social learning behaviours and environments.
 * It is most effective in organisations when there is a suitable supportive environment and culture. Organisations often set up structures and processes creating environments and cultures that inhibit social learning, knowledge flows, and innovation. (e.g. in military circles the 2 year posting actually damages the knowledge transfer.)
 * Problems can be avoided and learning innovations enabled by new social media and technologies but these must be of the user’s choice and adaptable to user needs.
 * It is necessary to create awareness such that the valuing of processes is based more widely on understanding of what happens at conjunctions and changes.
 * It is critical to address the challenges and opportunities of diversity within teams (e.g. research with the military on “Jointness” – operations with teams from different Armed Services)

**References to the work on Social Learning**
Linger, H. and Warne, L. (2001). Making the Invisible Visible: Modeling Social Learning in a Knowledge Management Context. //Australian Journal of Information Systems// **8** (Special Issue on Knowledge Management): 56-66. [] Ali, I., Warne, L., Agostino, K., and C. Pascoe. (2001). “Working and Learning Together: Social Learning in the Australian Defence Organisation”. //Informing Science Conference Bridging Diverse Disciplines (IS2001)// //19th -22nd June, 2001//. Krakow, Poland. Krakow University of Economics, Krakow Proceedings (CD-ROM) ISSN 15350703: 48. [] Warne, Leoni, Irena Ali and Celina Pascoe (2003) //Social Learning and Knowledge Management – A Journey through the Australian Defence Organisation: the Final Report of the Enterprise Social Learning Architectures Task,// DSTO Report, DSTO-RR-0257, Defence Systems Analysis Division, Information Sciences Laboratory, Department of Defence. [|**http://hdl.handle.net/1947/3273**]