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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

There’s a new Big Question on the Learning Circuits blog and it’s about questions. Well, I have my own list, based on my own perspective of learning and development in the workplace. Whether the majority of what people learn at work is learned informally (through experience, conversations, exploration, etc.).

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JULY 8, 2010

I finally got round to reading David Wilkins lengthy and emotive post A Defense of the LMS on his Social Enterprise Blog. Any practitioner who has to run a real-life l&d function for a large organisation would laugh at the suggestion that all learning should be driven by learners, informally, as and when needed.

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JULY 19, 2012

For a guide to creating rapid e-learning and all forms of digital content, see Onlignment’s Digital learning content: A designer’s guide. Facilitating collaborative online learning More modern, informal learning approaches put the trainer as the ‘guide on the side’ rather than the ‘sage on the stage’.

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DECEMBER 13, 2007

I've gathered these together here into a list for easy reference, just in case you're looking for some e-learning stocking fillers this Christmas: Informal Learning by Jay Cross Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning by Wick, Pollock, Jefferson and Flanagan mLearning by David Metcalf Learning in Real (..)

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JULY 8, 2008

In the Learning Circuits Blog , Tony Karrer poses a whole series of questions related to the role of learning and development professionals in promoting informal learning / social learning / learning 2.0 within organisations: Q: Must learning professionals be literate in these things?

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JANUARY 13, 2010

The Big Question for January in the Learning Circuits Blog is, rather predictably, what are your predictions for 2010? In 2009 I predicted : Most of the cool stuff (informal learning, social media, games and sims, mobile learning) will have to stay on the back burner, because management will simply not be interested in experimenting.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Perhaps the most used feature of the system is the discussion forum, although there is a top-down element as well through corporate blogs, news and videos. The team also uses Bupa Live for more informal training needs analysis to gather requirements directly from the learner audience.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

In retrospect, Nick realises that it was a mistake to assume that people would engage with an internal network in the same way some would outside the firewall – blogging, cross-linking to each other’s resources and so on. Technology is helping to transform our view of learning, as it both supports and highlights the role of informal learning.

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JULY 17, 2007

Do we only subscribe to those blogs which are likely to support our own view of the world? This got me thinking, are we just preaching to the converted?

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DECEMBER 23, 2008

In the case of blended learning, following it into town came the bandwagon snappily labelled Learning 2.0, laden with musicians trumpeting blogs, wikis and social networks. After all, the Learning 2.0 Now, if I was cynical (and most Brits are), I’d spot an opportunity here.

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APRIL 6, 2007

April's big question in the Learning Circuits blog is 'ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors – What Should They Do? ', in particular about the fact that good content is now freely available on the web, customers want their classroom training in smaller and smaller chunks and various other adverse trends. I think not.

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JANUARY 12, 2009

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for January asks what are your challenges, plans and predictions for 2009? Plans I want to finish my project Learning in all Contexts , which has been on the back burner too long. Keeping the income flowing in when spending on external contractors could take a hit.

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MARCH 5, 2008

The Big Question for March on the Learning Circuits Blog is 'what is the scope of our responsibility as learning professionals?' I don't regard this question as just a topical response to the increased interest in informal learning - it's an issue that has been there as long as we have had learning professionals.

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DECEMBER 4, 2007

The Learning Circuits Blog has started up its monthly Big Question again and the question, perhaps appropriately as we see out what remains of the year, is 'what did you learn about learning in 2007?'

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JUNE 4, 2008

Social learning technologies Where my two-tier model failed was in the fact that it did not properly integrate with more recent developments in using web 2.0 tools for informal learning. Enter Nick Shackleton-Jones, Manager, Online & Informal Learning for the BBC.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2006

And yes, I wanted to emphasise that the courses I would be running on this site would be highly collaborative, making use of forums, chats, learner blogs and wikis (which is all rather Web 2.0). However, what I am doing is not informal learning. So I decided on learning 1.5.

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DECEMBER 21, 2006

Of the "e-learning technologies used", roughly 60% of employers are using an LMS, 40% are using virtual classrooms, chat rooms and discussion groups, games and sims, >30% are using open source tools (!!!), 20% mobile learning, blogs and wikis, 15% podcasts. All of these are expected to increase substantially in the next 3 years.

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JANUARY 3, 2006

As we enter 2006, there are something like 30 million blogs like this one, with more than 30 thousand being discovered daily. Blogs allow people like you and me to publish our thoughts and experiences to whoever will take notice. With the new tools, everyone's a publisher, everyone's a teacher.

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DECEMBER 31, 2008

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for December is 'what did you learn about learning in 2008?' November If you have a really bad teacher, you'll never learn however long the experience lasts, because you just give up. Recipes for second generation blended learning. Why it's not worth paying peanuts.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Informal learning has taken centre stage, acknowledging the obvious - that most learners do it for themselves. They probably always have, but there's little to stop them now, with the widespread utilisation of blogs, wikis, social networking tools and the like. That was cathartic.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2006

If David's right, we're wasting our time building collaborative experiences into formal learning interventions and informal learning strategies - we're just slowing things down and making it easier for the less able to ride on the back of their more productive colleagues.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Rather than delivering events, learning professionals will increasingly be establishing processes that blur the distinction between formal and informal learning. Perhaps they maintain a blog, interview experts for podcasts or put out video commentaries on hot topics.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Rather than delivering events, learning professionals will increasingly be establishing processes that blur the distinction between formal and informal learning. Perhaps they maintain a blog, interview experts for podcasts or put out video commentaries on hot topics.

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