Thought Leadership

Social Learning & Collaboration

View the webinar: The New Corporate Learning - Social, Mobile, Collaborative, Engaging and Fun

Social learning is not a new phenomenon. For as long as there has been work, there have been apprentices learning first-hand from their mentors. And it’s easy to see why. Learning that truly changes behavior and impacts job performance occurs most often during those “teachable moments” when employees have an urgent need for knowledge. That’s why collaborative work and social learning are here to stay.

However, many corporate managers steer clear of informal learning in favor of highly structured forms of instruction. Or, if informal learning is incorporated, it is in the form of a separate, standalone portal that serves to “check the box” on someone’s to-do list. Unfortunately, this leads to a disjointed user experience that ultimately gets abandoned. The informal component of learning needs to be integrated into learning programs in a way that makes sense – via a channel that is used in the course of everyday business.

Blackboard Learn™ for Corporations gives you the powerful collaboration and communications tools your learners need to enhance a synchronous formal learning program. More importantly, it also affords opportunities for more unstructured and asynchronous learning, where an open and collaborative community can gather whenever and wherever they encounter moments of need.