Informal learning community

I’ve been thinking more about my project and have sorted out what I’m going to be looking at.

I’ve been on Twitter for a while now and find it a really useful place to hang out – mostly because of the easy access to such an interesting network of people (that means you if you’ve come here from twitter).

I’ve been learning a lot in a number of fields – my network consists of journalists, elearning types, developers and just plain interesting folks – and this kind of informal learning where the network shares information and ideas really interests me.

One of the key issues for me is a how a group of like-minded professionals (or people with a shared interest) can use a web 2.0 service to share developments and use Twitter as part of a personal learning network. So that, in a nutshell, is what I’m interested in.

As a journalism trainer, I’m obviously interested in how this can be used by journalists (although as an elearning type I’m also interested in this area too). But I’m going to do a case study based around journalists.

I’ve spoken to a couple of people and asked if they mind being part of a case study (they kindly said yes!) and I’ll be contacting some more in the near future.

And in the meantime I’m doing the reading on communities, learning, communities of practice and more!