15 Objections to Social Learning in 15 Days
Social learning advocate Kevin Jones of Engaged Learning has recently wrapped up a great series exploring fifteen common pain points in gaining acceptance for a knowledge sharing system. Kevin’s solid answers to these common questions are good enough to reuse for your own problems. My favorite response was on the question of control: “If we let everyone learn from each other, we give up control of that information!”.
That is right. For the most part, anyone can post anything. Be it right or wrong (which is tomorrow’s objection/post). And, as counterintuitive as this may seem at first, it is not all bad.
Number one, the training department didn’t need to ‘write’ it. Instead the employees taught each other. How great is that? Ya, it is not as pretty as a powerpoint presentation you may have given, nor quite as polished, but it was good information everyone needs to know and now anyone can find it!
Is Law 2.0 possible?
Wikinomics contributor Ming Kwan discusses perceived legal hurdles to the workplace adoption of knowledge sharing systems. She points out that e-mail was once strongly resisted as a liability and a distraction but that its undeniable benefits eventually secured its acceptance. Hopefully the upside of knowledge sharing will drive a similar workplace sea change towards accepting wikis and forums and other forms of public collaboration amongst teammates. Kwan’s article also links to some useful resources for crafting workable office publishing policies and getting legal advice on your knowledge sharing concerns.
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