This section provides guidance on uptake and engagement with results. Like monitoring and evaluation, a communication strategy and communication tools can be useful in facilitating looped learning. Below are examples of knowledge products that can help you to share your learning throughout your social learning journey. Scale and audience are two important factors to consider in this process. Depending on whether you wish to communicate with project stakeholders, institutions, or a more general audience, you may have different communication needs.
This section also provides a calendar of upcoming social learning-related events at which you can share your work, as well as a list of past events with links to resources that were shared at those events.
1. Examples of knowledge products, services and approaches
The sharing of knowledge created through a social learning approach should maintain the principles of social learning. This means that knowledge is accessible, open to comment and critique, and includes more informal and conversational styles alongside more formal and linear approaches. To be accessible to diverse audiences with different information capabilities and assets two or three channels of communication are usually necessary (e.g. radio, social media and print). To be open to comment and critique the chosen multiple channels should be linked and exploit opportunities for two way communication (e.g. radio phone in, social media discussion, and print postal feedback forms). More informal and conversational communication styles could involve more use of photos and drawings, audio and video interviews, stories and personal viewpoints.
Though participatory communication methods do not necessarily equate to social learning on their own, the feedback and learning that they can facilitate can then be incorporated into the next iteration, a step in the right direction. This iteration, which is so crucial to genuine social learning, should take place during a project and not just at the end of one.
Events can function as forums to share learning gained from your own experience of using social learning, gather feedback and hear about others' experiences, enabling you to compare experiences across other cases. Below, upcoming and past events are listed. Links for the past events provide access to examples of how such learning events have been structured and documented, and of their outcomes. We aim to update the following calendar of events quarterly. If you would like to add an event, please contact either Pete Cranston (pete.euforic@gmail.com) or Carl Jackson (carl.jackson@wkg.uk.net).
Cochrane Collaboration’s Annual Colloquium. Health care – has excellent user groups. Dipex database for patients’ experiences. Theme this year is “better knowledge for better health”.
Campbell Collaboration’s Annual Colloquium. The Colloquium will bring together leading researchers in the field of systematic reviews and policymakers from across the world to address crucial questions relating to the methodology and use of systematic reviews.
CCSL Framework and Toolkit
Communicating results and incorporating lessons learned
This section provides guidance on uptake and engagement with results. Like monitoring and evaluation, a communication strategy and communication tools can be useful in facilitating looped learning. Below are examples of knowledge products that can help you to share your learning throughout your social learning journey. Scale and audience are two important factors to consider in this process. Depending on whether you wish to communicate with project stakeholders, institutions, or a more general audience, you may have different communication needs.
This section also provides a calendar of upcoming social learning-related events at which you can share your work, as well as a list of past events with links to resources that were shared at those events.
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1. Examples of knowledge products, services and approaches
The sharing of knowledge created through a social learning approach should maintain the principles of social learning. This means that knowledge is accessible, open to comment and critique, and includes more informal and conversational styles alongside more formal and linear approaches. To be accessible to diverse audiences with different information capabilities and assets two or three channels of communication are usually necessary (e.g. radio, social media and print). To be open to comment and critique the chosen multiple channels should be linked and exploit opportunities for two way communication (e.g. radio phone in, social media discussion, and print postal feedback forms). More informal and conversational communication styles could involve more use of photos and drawings, audio and video interviews, stories and personal viewpoints.
Though participatory communication methods do not necessarily equate to social learning on their own, the feedback and learning that they can facilitate can then be incorporated into the next iteration, a step in the right direction. This iteration, which is so crucial to genuine social learning, should take place during a project and not just at the end of one.
2. Calendar of social learning events
Events can function as forums to share learning gained from your own experience of using social learning, gather feedback and hear about others' experiences, enabling you to compare experiences across other cases. Below, upcoming and past events are listed. Links for the past events provide access to examples of how such learning events have been structured and documented, and of their outcomes. We aim to update the following calendar of events quarterly. If you would like to add an event, please contact either Pete Cranston (pete.euforic@gmail.com) or Carl Jackson (carl.jackson@wkg.uk.net).
Upcoming Events
Past Events
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Dipex database for patients’ experiences. Theme this year is “better knowledge for better health”.
Week on Agricultural Innovation Systems in Africa (JOLISAA, Prolinnova, CCAFS, FSIFS)
researchers in the field of systematic reviews and policymakers from across the world to
address crucial questions relating to the methodology and use of systematic reviews.
(IDS, CCAFS, CDKN, GEF)
A meeting for CCAFS donors, partners and interested individuals'. (IIED, CCAFS)
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