Social learning is nothing new.

In fact, an estimated 70% of what we learn, we learn NOT in the class, but from one another.

Social networking isn't new, either. Twitter actually began in 2006, but since then, its growth has been exponential. According to Kevin Weil of the Twitter Analytics team, there are roughly 50 million tweets per day. In fact, between 2008 and 2009, Twitter increased 1,400%.

What is new

... is that Digitec has taken these two established ideas and created a social learning component for the new version of Knowledge Direct, Digitec's highly innovated learning platform. But instead of learners needing to create new profiles and "feed" yet another social networking site, Knowledge Direct® integrates directly with Twitter. Now, learners can follow others within their organization or student profiles, using an embedded live Twitter feed.
This social learning feature even gives users the ability to pose questions and receive "near" real-time answers from selected peer groups; directly from the Knowledge Direct desktop.

Now that's something worth tweeting about!

I'm interested in hearing how others are using social learning to solve real problems or how you feel about social learning, in general. Leave me a comment, I'd love to hear from you!

Labels: CE, digitec, digitec interactive, elearning, JIT training, just in time training, knowledge direct, knowledge direct web, learning platform, social learning, social networking, tweets, twitter