Enterprise Social Network and eLearning Silvia Calegari DISCo, UNIMIB 24 November 2014

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Are there contact points amid an Enterprise Social Network and an eLearning platform?

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What is an ESN? 

Most people are aware of public social networks: non-private social networks used to connect different types of people.

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An Enterprise Social Network (ESN) is a private social network used to assist communication within a business. 

the social functionality of public social networks can be used within a private, secure corporate setting.

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ESN: Key Beneficts 

Build Strong Employee Networks that Boost Productivity 

Get work done faster by connecting people, discussions, apps, tasks, and content.

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Enable employees to collaborate with team members anytime, anywhere

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Save time and increase productivity by making it easy for employees to find subjects matter experts quickly

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Speed innovation with social ideation that recognizes and rewards employees for contributing their best ideas …

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ESN: Key Features 

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Social Suite 

A suite of social applications including: (micro)blogs, wikis, forums, media galleries, calendars, tag and tag clouds, WYSIWIG editing, web pages

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Social networking tools: people search, people profiles, friending, activity streams, events, polls, commenting, liking

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Community activities: message center featuring instant messaging, presence and real-time alerts for friend requests, feedback

Social Analytics 

Analytics for community health, responsiveness, participation and content that can be customized & shared anywhere

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Content recommendations that connect people to the content they need quickly and tailored network suggestions that help build their personal networks Silvia Calegari - Enterprise Social Network and eLearning

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ESN: Subjects – An example

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ESN: ‘YOU’ – The User

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ESN: ‘YOU’ – The User An example

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ESN: Market Leaders Vendors have been evaluated against 65 criteria

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eLearning and Social Networking 

Social Networking as an Educational Tool (Web 2.0) 

Sets the use of social networking in context, not as a revolutionary paradigm shift, but as an evolutionary development of online practices.

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Learning Activities in Social Network  

Social Network -> purpose of social interaction eLearning sites -> focused on learning process

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Social Learning 

The emergence of social networking technology into the learning system 

To create an active learning environment among students Social Newsfees Tasks & Announcements Learning Resources & Curriculum Mapping Personalized Learning Plan Assessments & Grading

“Harness the power of social networking to make

learning fun, collaborative and engaging. Create a safe & secure network for instructors and learners to interact and learn”

Chat …

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Social Learning 

ESN

A gap for ‘Social Profile’, ‘Peer Influence’, and ‘Insights’ exists

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ESN

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MOOCs

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Online learning has been seen as an addon (or experiments) in many universities

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Universities are resistant to strategic change

Possible strategic choices*: 

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Enhance existing provision: to provide blended learning for existing students (e.g. to develop online components for existing courses) Change existing provision: to focus more teaching time on two-way learning conversations with students rather than one-way lecturing the so called ‘flipped classroom’

* “Beyond MOOCs: Sustainable Online Learning in Institutions”. By Li Yuan, Stephen Powell, and Bill Oliver. CETIS, Centre for Educational Technology, Interoperability and Standards, 2014 Silvia Calegari - Enterprise Social Network and eLearning

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Courses like Subjects (ESN)?

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STUDENT LIKE ‘YOU’ (ESN)?

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