Source: intrepidls.com Presentation 

What functions does social learning support well?

Consumpution

• How does SL support efficient consumption?

  • Use feedback such as visits, ratings, comments, and reviews to help learners identify and find the most useful learning content.
  • Which SL tools support consumption?

    • Views, Votes, Polls, Ratings, Tags, Comments, Group “games” MMORGs/simulations/scenarios
    • Some LMS’s have these tools

Collaboration and Co-Creation

• Crowd sourcing
• How does SL support collaboration?

  • Use the wisdom of the crowd to gather dispersed expertise or use “read/write” web to support collaboration.
  • Wikipedia
  • Which SL tools support creation and/or collaboration

    • Blogs
    • User-generated content (binary uploads)
    • Discussion boards
    • Wikis (and collaborative documents)

Connections

• Social connect, getting people together with a question and an answer
• How does SL support Connections?

  • Connect peers and experts to form groups for sharing and collaboration.
  • Which SL tools support connections?

    • Personal profiles
    • Microblogs
    • Socialcast
    • Yammer
    • Groups