session overview

CA1: 11:15 – 12:25

Collaborative learning: Tools and techniques for building a learning community

Nic Laycock, Managing Director, Amos Laycock Consulting

In this interactive session, Nic explores the means and methods for creating and sustaining a learning community and draws on other examples of good practice in the private sector and in education.

How do you identify and share the best ideas in your community, and how do you bring people together to create new materials? Nic will examine some of the key issues in this field, including:

• How to inspire experts to give their time for free to collaborate?
• Using Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools effectively
• Making sense of the information flood
• Growing your own Personal Learning Environment that works
• Making best use of Google Docs, blogs and other collaborative tools