Issue link: https://epubs.iltanet.org/i/50188
IMPLEMENTING A SOCIAL LEARNING COMMUNITY RECOMMENDATIONS We encourage you to get started with social learning by using informal learning and social medial tools to reinforce formal learning. Visit your learners, and encourage and facilitate storytelling. Support peer-to- peer coaching and voluntary informal mentoring. Be intentional, meaningful and connect emotionally. Think big, but start small. And remember that learning never ends! ILTA " " Classroom Learning in Law Firms … Fading Fast? F ormal learning and classroom training is fading fast. Informal learning is accelerating due to our fast pace (lack of time), information overload, demand for instant access to information and the habits of the next generation who want to control their learning. According to the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD), "Classroom use could drop to 50 percent in the next five years." During our recent ILTA-sponsored, 15-city roadshow, we took our ideas about social learning and ran them by the attendees. We assured them that the classroom format of learning is not dead; the goal of building a social learning community is not to take away classrooms, but to redefine what we do in the classroom and extend what is learned beyond the classroom. Learning Theory Learning Portal Learning or Tech Blogs Learning or KM Wikis Peer Experts as Tech SMEs Today 42 percent 16 percent 18 percent 16 percent During our roadshow, we surveyed participants to get their predictions on when firms will begin to consider or implement specific social learning technologies. We also combined predictions to forecast what the legal training environment might look like in two years. The results below are from our first 10 shows, which included 63 law firms/legal departments. ILTA Forecast (Two Years Out) 73 percent 53 percent 49 percent 43 percent Comments Waiting for SharePoint One firm tried, but it was not successful www.iltanet.org Tech Potpourri 33 Learning is a pr ocess not an event. —Elliott Masie " Learning things in advance losing game. Until the matter won ' t be r the knowledge is gone. elevant. And when it does arrive, ' ' just in case ' case ' " is a arrives, the subject —Jay Cr oss