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Embedding Learning in Work: The Benefits and Challenges

Performance Learning Productivity

(a version of this article was originally written as background for an #OzLearn chat held on Twitter, 11th November 2014) The Power of Embedded Learning A common finding that has emerged from study after study over the past few years is that learning which is embedded in work seems to be more effective than learning away from work.

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Power of informal learning in developing managers

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Here’s a six-year old article on informal learning I discovered while Googling for material on learning transfer. Informal Learning and the Transfer of Learning: How Managers Develop Proficiency. 4, Winter 2003. Enos, Marijke Thamm Kehrhahn, Alexandra Bell. and trial-and-error” (p.

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Collaborative Learning: A Practical Guide

KnowledgeOne

Lundgren-Cayrol, 2003). Various tasks or activities can lend themselves to collaborative learning. learners with diverse profiles (training, professional activity, age, gender, knowledge or level of competence in the studied subject, etc.). Sainte-Foy, Canada : Presses Universitaires du Québec, 2003. ” (F.

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Improving Informal Learning

Big Dog, Little Dog

Harold notes the 80-20 funding ratio between formal and informal learning and Will Thalheimer questions this funding differential in the comment section. Of that, about $30 billion is spent on formal training, while the remainder, $180 billion is spent on informal or on-the-job training. So which chart do we believe?

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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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Nailed! How managers develop proficiency

Jay Cross

Informal Learning and the Transfer of Learning: How Managers Develop Proficiency. “Our study suggested that managers learn mostly from informal learning, that proficiency is the product of informal learning, and that metacognitive knowledge and self-regulation skills moderate informal learning and the transfer process.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Worlds for Study: Invitation - Virtual Worlds for Studying Real-World Business (and Law, and Politics, and Sociology, and.) (by Robert Bloomfield)

Mark Oehlert

Katie Salen) | Main | The Invention of Good Games:Understanding Learning Design in Commercial Video Games (Katrin Becker thesis) » February 27, 2008 Worlds for Study: Invitation - Virtual Worlds for Studying Real-World Business (and Law, and Politics, and Sociology, and.) (by stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us