In the February edition of CLO Magazine , I had the opportunity to write an editorial entitled “Time’s Up – Learning Will Forever Be Part Formal, Part Informal and Part Social”. It can and does occur in formal, informal and social ways every day in and out of your job. If so, I’d suggest some thicker skin, and quite honestly to focus your efforts on a concept like RPE (Return on Performance and Engagement) itself. evaluation formal informal kirkpatrick social social learningSuffice to say I’ve caused a bit of a stir in the Kirkpatrick camp. Reverse? MORE >>

Informal learning has answers to some of the most pressing educational challenges organizations face. In his 1977 book Social Learning Theory , he wrote: “Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others, one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.” MORE >>

harkened back to these findings after reading Xyleme CLO Jeffrey Katzman’s provocative  blog posting about new instructional design. He encourages instructional designers to relinquish control and cease reliance on “a process of extracting and interpreting information from the SME… ”  Katzman continues, “The expertise is out in the field …   In some cases the learner is the teacher, and teacher a learner.” If doubts and fears cause lame entries, training alone won’t improve performance. Many call it informal. Realistic? MORE >>

Learning Executives Briefing : Performance is a wonderful yardstick, and the world is still somewhat governed by accountants. Formal and informal never exist in isolation. LXB: Come next year, what trend or advice should the CLO ignore at his peril? Cross: The biggest thing for the CLO to do is to stop focusing on programs. Change Informal LearningLX Briefing. Mixing case studies, stories, and actionable recommendations together with humor and easy-to-understand language, Jay Cross provides much more than buzzwords and back-patting, or so says his bio. Period. MORE >>

By combining the power of the human brain with technology in a way that facilitates work, collaboration and communication, leaders can turn learning into multifaceted performance support. Former Thomson Reuters CLO Charles Jennings highlights the 70:20:10 framework for thinking about organizational learning: 10 percent of what we need to know to do our jobs comes from courses, 20 percent from mentoring or coaching, and 70 percent is learned on the job through independent initiative. The performance ecosystem is a suite of resources aligned for the individual. MORE >>