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What is Informal Learning?

LearnUpon

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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Great and small

E-Learning Provocateur

We may alternately use pedagogy to mean the general approach to teaching and learning. In this broader sense it’s an umbrella term that may also cover andragogy – the teaching of adults – and heutagogy – self-determined learning. And yet our language is nuanced. Not necessarily teaching, not necessarily children.

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They’re not like us

E-Learning Provocateur

As learning in the workplace becomes increasingly informal, the motivation of employees to drive their own development becomes increasingly pivotal to their performance. You see, we love learning. Of course, an alternative is to cultivate the participants’ intrinsic motivation instead. but apparently it works.

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10 hot tips for moocers

E-Learning Provocateur

Participate actively in the discussion forum. Reply to their posts, build upon their ideas and suggest alternative thoughts. More specifically, use your blog to articulate your learnings from the mooc. I found it helpful to use the discussion forum to post preliminary drafts of my ideas, refine them, then blog them.

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Workplace Learning – Formal or Informal?

Paradiso Solutions

What is formal and informal learning? Learning that is “given in a systematic planned fashion” is referred to as formal learning. It typically takes place in a face-to-face environment or through an online learning platform, like an LMS, and is planned and supervised by an instructor. Learn More.

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Thinking through social learning

Clark Quinn

In this representation, an individual, in creating an output such as a blogpost or a response to a discussion question in a forum, or a response to an assignment, has to do some reasonably robust processing. Then you have lots of alternate ideas, and re- processing going on. That, to me, is the power of social learning.

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Informal learning patterns

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Learnscaping describes a dozen learning patterns, e.g. processes that organizations are using to improve performance through networked informal learning. Andy McAfee , late of Harvard B-School and now crossing the Charles River to MIT, has gone me one better with his discussion of Enterprise 2.0 is an Alternative to 1.0.

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