Over the last time, I’ve been working on the startup of a new research project. I’m doing this together with Robin Yap from Toronto, Canada. We’ve met two years ago during an AHRD conference in Oxford and stayed in touch ever since (off course through the use of web technologies).
The research we are working on concerns the issues that we have encountered as (organizational) learning consultants which is the often technology centered focus during implementations of social web technologies. Our aim with this study is to develop a model that could assist in determining how social learning technologies in the workplace can be leveraged to engage, build relationships, and enhance the learning of individuals in corporate environments.
Last week we have finished our first draft of a paper which is submitted as a proposal to the Networked Learning conference in Aalborg next year. From the literature review, we have noticed the importance of trust for leveraging social learning. The model we propose in this paper explores trust as a foundation for the development of social capital in organization and explored how HRD can contribute to that with the use of webtechnologies.
We would appreciate your feedback on this research in progress.
Download the paper: A model for leveraging social learning technologies in corporate environments
Your research is similar to my proposal for PhD.. but I’m more on Personal KM towards the Organisational KM which involves Change Management in terms of Organisational Culture etc…
Yes, Trust is the number one issue in terms of technology and in terms of why people use social media. I will look into this paper of yours and see if I have any more comments (so far, no time to read yet). Thanks for sharing, Sir!
Hi Shazz, thanx for your response. Is your phd more focused on the role of web 2.0 in transferring personal to organizational knowledge in terms like Donald Schön talks about it? I’d sure love to more about what ur doing there.
Please take the time to read, i’m looking forward to receive your feedback!
Nice paper. I think that ideas about the levels of trust are relevant from your perspective. As well as the theory about affordances of technologies. See as a start http://wilfredrubens.typepad.com/wilfred_rubens_weblog/2010/01/dit-is-er-in-je-organisatie-voor-nodig-om-social-media-met-succes-voor-leren-in-te-zetten-.html