Social Media for Learning and Development

ASTD Study Shows Social Media has High Value for Learning and Development

A new research report, The Rise of Social Media: Enhancing Collaboration and Productivity across Generations finds that regardless of generation, workers in the United States believe that social media tools have an important role to play in workplace learning and development

The study also finds that most companies have a long way to go when it comes to implementing social media tools for the learning function. While the vast majority of respondents used social media in their personal lives, only 24 percent said their informal learning at work included social media.

However, more than 80 percent of survey respondents said social media tools would become an important part of the learning function within the next three years