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The Big Question: how to assess informal learning

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The Big Question on the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog is long enough to fill a post all by itself: How do you assess whether your informal learning, social learning, continuous learning, performance support initiatives have the desired impact or achieve the desired results? As for me, I just don’t get it.

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Insights: L&D is playing a key role in supporting informal learning

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This post continues my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. The second of the ten 'insights' in the report is that ‘L&D is playing a key role in supporting informal learning'. Perhaps we are expecting too much.

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Informal learning - less than a dollar a hit

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For some months now I've been carrying Jay Cross's new book Informal Learning around in my bag to read on train journeys. What's more, I believe that blended, formal programmes can provide an important bridge to informal learning.

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Shepherd accused of sensationalist claptrap

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When I started blogging, I saw it primarily as an activity for personal reflection, a way of clarifying and externalising my thoughts. And when you start blogging that's pretty well all you can do, because it takes time to attract readers. As a result, I came to the conclusion in 2009 that blogging is journalism , pure and simple.

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Can PeopleCloud support learning in all its contexts?

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Learning professionals have no real difficulty in supporting the formal element of their work, i.e. providing access to courses. The functionality of PeopleCloud will also support action learning and blogging, which help to maximise what is learned through experience. The first I want to examine is Saba's new PeopleCloud.

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In support of a little moderation

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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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The Big Question: What questions are you no longer asking?

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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.).