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  • Social learning debate
  • Oxford Union 2010
  • Learning Technologies 2010
  • Oxford Union 2009
The E-learning Debate at Learning Technologies 2011
This house believes that as social learning grows, so the requirement for traditional training departments shrinks.

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Arguing for the motion

  • Donna Hamilton

    Donna Hamilton: Head of Group Learning at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, responsible for learning strategy, policy and infrastructure. RBS employs 150,000 employees globally and has 40 million customers.

  • Jane Hart

    Jane Hart : Leading thinker in the area of social learning and the Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT), one of the world's most visited learning websites.

The Arguments for

Donna Hamilton says:

The last thirty years have seen organisations change almost beyond recognition. The emergent workforce too has grown up in an on-demand, personalised and connected world. Yet a typical traditional training department would still be recognisable to someone beamed forward in time from the 1980s. We are failing to take advantage of developments in social learning that are fundamentally reshaping the relationship between people and information. Traditional training departments need to evolve or be relegated to corporate history.

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Arguing against the motion

  • Melissa Highton

    Melissa Highton: Head of the Learning Technologies Group at University of Oxford and Fellow of Kellogg College. She leads the University's strategic use of technology to support learning and teaching and is responsible for the management of IT skills training offered across the University.

  • Clive Shepherd

    Clive Shepherd: Consultant specialising in learning and communications in the workplace, with a long-term interest in the applications of new media technologies. He is partner in Onlignment Ltd and current chair of the eLearning Network.

The Arguments against

Melissa Highton says:

Imagine formal training built entirely from socially created content. Trainers could share and share-alike to sustain quality. As social learning grows the requirement for training departments will be that they take a less traditional approach to the training they provide and consider the social context in which they work. We must reconsider issues of content creation and accreditation.

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  • 13 January 2012 Prof Allison Rossett says include an intentional mix in your learning of the yin and yang (the informal and formal)... http://t.co/F2Gyz6Xj
  • 6 November 2011 Steven Goodwin says social learning and training depts are not mutually exclusive. Is he right? Join the debate at http://t.co/6RWKWoQL