Learning in the Open

There are some great sites for e-learning professionals (I'll be blogging about them over the next few months) but Jane Hart's Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies has always been a particular favourite.
Jane always seems to pick up on so many conversations and I have her Tweet to thank for alerting me to Anne Marie Cunningham's recent blog posting about her social learning experience in the medical profession.
Anne Marie draws our attention to real-world experience using Twitter to document our social learning. I like this idea of publicly-available, auditable learning. I want to go and check sources. And I don't want my learning buried in a e-portfolio that I'll probably forget to keep up-to-date like my, er, CV. Donald Clark's post on e-portflio sums all this up very nicely.
It's fairly obvious that open or social learning is not for everyone. There are plenty of times when all of us feel what we ought to know something but we don't. I've attended training courses with doctors who are generally bullish and fun about what they do and do not know. A lot of people in other areas of life are a lot less confident. However, with more confident learners leaving their learning trails publicly on the web, the rest of us can happily follow in their footsteps.