Agenda

• Context & Landscape

• Creating a Dynamic Learning Environment for Social Workers

& Ots & Mental Health Professionals

• Learning and Development Digital Strategy

• Platforms Used for the Pilot Project

• Digital Champions

Context of the Pilot Project

• Social Work Practice operates in a fast paced policy landscape

– New legislation, policy, guidance, practices, skills, intervention methods and knowledge for social work.

• Professor David Croisdale-Appleby

– Three outcomes of a social worker: practitioner, professional, and as a social scientist are fundamental to the profession.

– ‘CPD must become a normal part of a social worker’s career.’ (Croisdale-Appleby, 2014:84)

The Pilot ProjectAims and Objectives

• Create a dynamic learning environment through creation of a platform that can support SW & OTs

• Create a continuous conversation that fosters and supports a culture of continuous learning

• Enable social workers and OTs to identify, record, and track their personal and professional development

• Support social workers and OTs to take responsibility for their own learning and development and to identify and meet their own learning needs

• Facilitate cross-organisational exchange of information and a collaborative culture of learning and problem solving

• Create a Community of Practice (CoP) and different Communities of Interest (CoI) and to foster a culture of coproduction and collective thinking

• Enable professionals to tap into CoP and CoI for support, sharing of information and collective and creative problem solving

Adult Learning Theory &Dialectical Constructivism

Teacher-Centred To Learner-Centred

Knowledgeable teaching one lacking the knowledge

To Co-production of knowledge

& learning

Information processing &

recall To

Co-production and process of knowledge generation

The Strategy

1. Involve practitioners from across the borough

2. Face-to-Face forum

3. Create a blended platform to support CoI and CoP

4. Draw on a number of platforms that can support the objectives of the project

5. Ensure added value for practitioners

6. Nominate Digital Champions to lead and motivate greater participation

Social Media Engagement

Face-2-Face

Yammer

Knowledge Hub

e-Portfolios

& Blogs

Inclusive: Collaborate

& Coproduce

Yammer• Transcend organisational silos/barriers and facilitate

communication across the organisation• Transcend organisational hierarchies and create an open

platform for communication• Tap into the power of sharing and social media while

maintaining the organisational space• Develop a culture of sharing and collective thinking by

empowering people to share their knowledge and experiences• Promote and enhance interprofessional and interdisciplinary

awareness, appreciation and collaboration• A crowdsourcing tool that allows the organisation to tap into

the collective intelligence of its people• Encourage and support creation of CoP and CoI

Sharing Experiences via Yammer

Knowledge Hub

• Ensure knowledge retention• Supports personal & professional

development & knowledge sharing;• Preserve & promote organisational

learning and innovation• Evaluate and promote local

performance and productivity• Empower through self assessment

and benchmarking• Ensure transparency of information• Support cross-sector collaboration

and creative working• Transform the workforce and services

through a culture of coproduction and excellence

Knowledge HubContinuous Professional Development

• Provide flexible CPD & make organisational knowledge & learning ubiquitous and accessible anytime, anywhere and flexible

• Support staff in their professional development and career progression

• Create and sustain a culture of continuous learning

• Innovate, Create, & Connect, to Collaborate & Coproduce

Example of Personal Profile Pages

e-Personal Development Learning PlansOverview

e-Personal Development Learning Plans Courses

e-Personal Development Learning Plans Objectives

e-Portfoliose-Personal Development Learning Plan

• Support a culture of learning and enable practitioners & managers to take responsibility for own learning &professional development

• Collect, select, and reflect on the process and products of learning and development

• Chronicle, display, and visibly present the diversity of the Enfield experience using multimedia

• Create digital evidence of the multiple intelligences of an individual’s growth over time

• This platform has the potential to incorporate assessment, appraisals and evaluations

• This platform has the potential for gamification to enhance motivation

Blogs

Twitter & Storify

Twitter

Meet the Team

Digital Champions