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Help yourself

Learning with e's

In essence, it highlights the differences between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation , and the potentially different learning outcomes each might yield. Heutagogy can of course be viewed as an explanation of learning that occurs both inside and outside of formal contexts, but really comes into its own when applied to informal learning.

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[IN DEPTH ANALYSIS] Do your employees know how to learn?

KnowledgeOne

In this context, it is essential to make the most of informal learning, the spontaneous and unstructured learning that occurs in all workplaces and has an excellent, often untapped potential. Learning that needs to be known. And here is were online training could help! Customized for the future.

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The Real Truth about ROI – the Learning Performance Model

CrossKnowledge

Our recent academic research has resulted in the Learning Performance Model – a two-step model, which shows the potential value of L&D by linking it to financial and organizational performance by using employee performance as a bridge. Figure 3 – Presentation of the Learning Performance Model. . Also Rose et al.

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Blog Book Tour: Social Media for Trainers

Big Dog, Little Dog

In addition, we can bounce ideas off of them and are often a neutral source of information, which may help or speed several forms of instrumental learning (Conte, Paolucci, 2001). Thus to transform training from an event to a real process you have to support the informal learning that accompanies the majority of formal learning.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Dissertation: The Effective Integration of Digital Games and Learning Content by M.P.J. Habgood

Mark Oehlert

"This thesis provides a theoretical and empirical exploration of game designs that follow a more integrated approach, broadly known as intrinsic integration (Kafai, 2001). Habgood ( link ) Just getting into this but it looks promising. Habgood : Comments I’ve used other services before and I’ve always had problems. From the land of Huh?

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Agile Design: An Ethos for Creating Learning Platforms

Big Dog, Little Dog

And rather than being a methodology, it is more a philosophy or ethos that is best described by its manifesto (Agile Alliance, 2001): We are uncovering better ways of developing. Build other useful benefits into the learning process during the final iterations. References. Agile Alliance (2001). Boehm, B.; Turner (2004).

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Five Years later: A Review of Kirschner, Sweller and Clark's Why Minimal Guidance during Instruction Does Not Work

Big Dog, Little Dog

Formal and informal learning were supposed to be at odds which each other, even though each hour of formal learning spills over to four-hours of informal learning. All learning is social! While the majority of learning may be social we often still learn things on our own.