Has Social Learning Been Forgotten?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Has Social Learning Been Forgotten?
Mark Britz, The Simple Shift, 2019/02/05
This article is pretty light and at times awkwardly written, but it does raise the interesting question, "has social learning been forgotten?" It's a good question. "Social learning isn’t seen first as learning but rather the emphasis is on the 'social' which to many still means chit-chat, Facebook friends and cats on a Roomba GIFs." And "Social learning, unlike its counterpart, formal learning, is a messy many-to-many rather than the neat one-to-many model of training." So it's hard to measure. More...