With the deployment of SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Online
within Office 365, SharePoint is currently undergoing a
renaissance. We’ve always known that it’s a great system for
storing documents in, but use for wider collaboration in the
enterprise is increasing in leaps and bounds. Most organizations
have SharePoint and most of these are looking to how we can expand
its use. We use SharePoint heavily within my company and I’m keen
to learn how we can use it better. I’m personally looking forward
to the European SharePoint Conference to increase my own learning
in SharePoint and to meet and share experiences with others.

My main area of interest is in using SharePoint for learning and
assessments. With the realization that most learning in corporate
settings is done informally and during work rather than in formal
training sessions, use of SharePoint to encourage, support and
facilitate learning is growing fast. I’m speaking at the conference
about measuring social learning with assessments and will update
you on how assessments can helpful in SharePoint to support formal
and informal learning, and for compliance. I’ll also be explaining
some recent psychological research which shows that answering
questions on something helps you retain it better for the long term
than simply studying something – and so why including
knowledge-check or other quizzes with learning material makes that
learning material more likely to be retained.