Foreword
It is our hope that by leveraging socially based technologies the education industry can shape a new educational technology paradigm that realizes the promises of true “Social Learning”.
By understanding its applications we can create a unique opportunity to improve student engagement, student retention, academic success and overall educational outcomes.

– Stephen Gilfus, Gilfus Education Group

Since the post was all about our survey, thought that I might reply. It is interesting that you didn’t pick up the phone to chat, prior to doing a smear post, but that may be part of problem with the blogosphere

Our survey was just that. A quick pulse survey of learning colleagues around the world. In fact, we designed the questions in a seminar on Social Learning and sent it to 50,000 folks that subscribe to our newsletter. We had over 1,000 responses and it is an interesting set of patterns that popped up.

Organizations are fascinated, scared and experimenting with social media. And, it is an interesting dimension of how instructional designers are evolving their learning development.

Is there a lot of hype? SURE! Are there internal challengers? YES! Are IT groups struggling to see if it they should adopt a “social” platform or use ad hoc tools? Yes!

All of our surveys are done to provide a perspective that will extend dialogue. Once again, I wonder why you didn’t reach out if you were so offended by my published results. I have 30 years of collaborative experience and would have loved to share with you more of the data and have a cool conversation.

Ah…

Elliott

Robert’s response to this comment is available here