Web Courseworks

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Andy Hicken and I are contributing authors in 101 Ways to Make Learning Active Beyond the Classroom , a new e-learning book by my friend and colleague, Elaine Biech. The book’s front half lists 200 tips for “making training active and learning successful.” Active Training. Active Training.

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learnWorlds

JULY 31, 2023

To maximize training effectiveness, many companies add collaborative learning activities to their training courses. The main “selling point” of collaborative activities is that they’re highly interactive and don’t feel forced. Collaborative learning, on the other hand, is active.

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eLearning Industry

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Statistics say that 80% of learning happens in subconscious and informal settings. How can you take this unintended training and structure it more deliberately to achieve your organizational objectives? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Challenge to Learn

MARCH 3, 2011

The question of the month #LCBQ is: How do you assess whether your informal learning, social learning, continuous learning and performance support initiatives have the desired impact or if they achieve the desired results? So in fact you can ask the same question for formal learning activities.

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Jigsaw Interactive

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Research indicates that learners who engage in active learning, or activity-based learning, absorb far more than they do when they sit passively, listening to lectures. But wait,” I hear you say, “that’s all well and good for a traditional classroom, but how am I supposed to implement activity-based learning virtually?”.

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Docebo

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

And this makes sense, considering Gen-Z is the world’s first truly digitally-native generation, having grown up surrounded by smartphones, touch-screens, voice-activated AI, and social media. From a learning perspective, connecting with Gen-Z requires L&D activities that: Leverage mixed media and stimulating messages.

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KnowledgeOne

OCTOBER 22, 2019

“Any occasion is good for learning!” ” could be the motto of informal learning, this type of learning without structure or organization that we all do on a daily basis without realizing it and whose possibilities are attracting increasing interest, especially in the workplace.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 3, 2011

Recently Anne Marie blogged Location and Learning (which I have reproduced here) and she asked me whether or not I consider her central idea an example of an Informal Learning Environment (ILE). They generally have a haphazard learning experience.

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Litmos

MAY 21, 2019

My Internet Time Alliance colleague, Charles Jennings, pointed me to this interesting article by Andries De Grip, titled " The importance of informal learning at work" that has interesting implications for the design of learning experiences, particularly when employees are not desk-bound, and/or in high-turnover situations.

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LearnUpon

JUNE 20, 2019

These are all substantial aspects of learning, but in truth, learning isn’t always so by the numbers. Informal learning is a type of learning that happens every day, whether we realize it or not. But, smart businesses are now beginning to see the value of nurturing informal training too.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

She writes about “embedded evaluation”: Embedded evaluation integrates “invisible” tools for evaluation into the existing program activities. All activity in the online community can be tracked, and the ongoing development of the youth’s projects can be analyzed for more detail.

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Spark Your Interest

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Often, it is referred to as learning by experience or just as experience. Informal learning is a pervasive ongoing phenomenon of learning via participation or learning via knowledge creation, in contrast with the traditional view of teacher-centered learning via knowledge acquisition.

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eFront

OCTOBER 29, 2012

“It’s critical that training and development professionals not go overboard with command and control when they support informal learning. And since informal learning makes up the bulk of learning inside organizations, this could be a truly perilous move.” ~ Patti Shank, Director of Research at The eLearning Guild.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Mott’s blueprint is the Open Learning Network (OLN). Mine is the Informal Learning Environment (ILE). Within such a framework, any tool can securely interact with any other tool, passing user IDs and course and role information. We can have both.&#. Amen to that. But how do we bridge the gap? The ILE recapped.

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ProProfs

MARCH 22, 2017

If applied right, informal learning can become the competitive edge for every company. Why does informal learning demand equal importance as formal learning? If you are thinking how to approach this, here are few pointers that will throw light on why informal learning assumes relevance for a company.

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Trivantis

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Today, workers need to be able to learn on demand, as well as to maximize their annual training. Informal learning helps employees stay knowledgeable and ready for industry shifts. Want to initiate more informal learning in your organization? Use a flexible LMS that facilitates social and informal learning.

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Matrix

AUGUST 22, 2019

Adult learning is very much connected to need and usefulness and as a result it’s paramount for instructional designers to prove the importance of any material they present and allow for learners to go about finding what they think is of educational value at a certain point. Formal and informal learning – two peas in the same pod.

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Degreed

APRIL 14, 2017

According to the latest Bersin Corporate Learning Factbook, the best L&D organizations deliver significantly more on-demand resources like articles, videos and books, and up to 20% fewer hours via formal training (ILT, vILT, e-learning). But truly measuring the value of informal learning can be tricky.

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Matrix

AUGUST 7, 2018

Without ruling out traditional L&D practices, informal learning should find its way into today’s workplace. Read more: The truth about informal learning: it happens all the time, anywhere. 8 practices to facilitate informal learning. First of all, it is very cost effective. All in all.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning ….&#%!? Presented by Training Magazine Network Diagram of the learning process: Input: you can get input in lots of ways Organize Apply Evaluate (in a wheel – each of these is a subprocess) Looking first at learning. In a disconnected learning system: Need.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

JANUARY 17, 2016

Especially if you have the ambition to monitor both formal and informal activities of employees it might be useful. The most important and innovative feature of such a store is that it can collect data about different activities and different platforms. The main purpose of the monitoring is to improve the learning landscape.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Technology and the business environment are changing so quickly, structured training has by necessity taken a back seat to informal learning as the dominant approach to workplace development. Self-Directed Informal Learning Experience alone can be an inefficient instructor. “Our company is ambitious.

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Braidio

AUGUST 9, 2018

So why wouldn’t learning and training adapt in the same way? Businesses can save costs, time, and energy by utilizing active workflow listening. Employees can find solutions to workplace dilemmas and have questions answered in their daily workflow, seamlessly learning from mistakes colleagues have made in the past.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2014

Key performance indicators for social and informal learning identify knowledge hubs and lead to better results. Just as social learning and technology have modernized the way learning occurs in companies today, they also have made a mark on the key performance indicators learning leaders should capture and measure.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2013

It happens informally, between employees and peer groups. Leaders can promote this activity and track it to increase development and facilitate talent management. Learning leaders can support informal learning within systems, but all solutions are not rooted in technology. Record informal learning activities.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 11, 2009

There's a fantastic post by Stephen Downes - New Technology Supporting Informal Learning. For flow learners with flow learning goals, this likely worked quite well. Still the fact that within the context of a formal learning event, they heavily use student activity aggregated together is a very interesting model.

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eFront

JANUARY 24, 2017

Informal learning is impromptu. In this article, we’ll share 7 tips to use informal learning into your training strategy. How To Incorporate Informal Learning Into Your Corporate Training Strategy. How To Incorporate Informal Learning Into Your Corporate Training Strategy.

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eLearning Industry

AUGUST 15, 2020

Social media groups are a shortcut to social learning, but there’s an app for that too. What elements can you integrate into your native social training app? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2012

When the book on informal learning came out, nay-sayers attacked me as some kind of loony. QUESTION: How do you know that informal learning works? ANSWER: How did you learn to walk and talk? How did you learn to kiss? QUESTION: How can you measure what people learn? Can informal learning do any worse?

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eLearningMind

MARCH 2, 2023

L&D teams use it when building solutions to communicate learning activity within and between learning systems. xAPI then allows users to securely write and read those learning experience data to a Learning Record Store (LRS). And what is xAPI used for? What is the difference between API and xAPI?

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning [My notes from a webinar. Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning … &#%!? Formal learning is intentional. [I

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Obsidian Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

When you’re designing learning, don’t overlook the importance of informal learning. This is learning that takes place outside of the classroom or the eLearning activity. In fact, we typically learn more from informal learning than from formal learning experiences. Pershing (Ed.),

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It can comprehend and respond to user input, making it an ideal instrument for interactive and engaging learning experiences. According to Reuters , ChatGPT reportedly reached 100 million monthly active users within two months of its debut, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2023

The Internet Time Alliance Memorial Award , in memory of Jay Cross , is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay‘s lifetime of work. She actively shares her expertise and insights.

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Sticky Learning

AUGUST 18, 2010

So, we extrapolate on imperfect information. Everyday it wakes up, is fed, does a small range of other chicken activities and goes to sleep. This is where informal learning comes in. Let's try these descriptions of Informal Learning: Learning with no particular outcome in mind. Imagine a chicken.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 22, 2020

We also start looking at informal learning, the continual innovation. It starts where if there’s network usage, it’s not org-originated, through some units having a system, to having an organizational focus on communication, and then actively facilitating social learning.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 24, 2023

As a meme or reference model, it both validates the importance of Formal Courses – the “10” as well as opening up the opportunity of intentionally activating Learning from Challenging Assignments – the “70” and Learning from Others – the “20.” Implications 1. It’s now time to put this knowledge into action.

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