The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 2, 2015

Several excellent blog posts have recently come to my attention that, when combined, provide a how-to for creating a learning culture in organizations. One of these posts appears in Jane Hart ’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. In this post , she writes that workplace learning is: Structured learning experiences (e.g.,

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 15, 2019

I’ve argued that the community of practice should determine the curriculum to be a member of that community. Similarly, the resources to support progression in the community should come from the community, both within and outside the organization. ” Is that AI curation, or community curation?

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Clark Quinn

MAY 12, 2020

The domain’s likely built upon some predecessor concepts that may be familiar, but can a motivated and self-effective learner get this in a reasonable amount of time, or will they benefit from a learning experience? Until schools also develop effective communication and collaboration skills, L&D would be useful.

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Instancy

MARCH 9, 2023

Integrated with eLearning and Classroom Learning Integrating stand-alone social applications with a Learning Management System can be a challenge. That’s why Instancy has created a learning platform where self-paced eLearning, classrooms, and social learning can be brought together seamlessly.

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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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Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

Published in Chief Learning Officer, August 2009. Informal Learning 2.0. Some cutting-edge corporations are adopting a new bundle of practices — let’s call them informal learning 2.0 — in order to improve operating efficiency by: • Slashing time to performance. Increasing customer loyalty though learning.

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Web Courseworks

AUGUST 24, 2017

In the Learning & Development world there has been a lot of buzz recently around content curation and the skills associated with being a curator. Maybe not, but the Internet and its astonishing volumes of information published daily has created the need for digital curation.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2011

An instructional designer by profession who started her career anlayzing learner needs, creating micro-design documents, writing story-boards and discussing the nitty-gritty of course navigation with visual designers, I have long been interested in the power of social, collaborative and informal learning.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Informal Learning begins with these words: “THIS IS A BOOK about knowledge workers, twenty-first-century business, and informal learning. The workhorse of the knowledge economy has been, and continues to be, informal learning. Most teaming about how to do a job is informal. “Training&# ?

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Or will work itself subsume learning enabled by a transformed L&D / facilitators / coaches / mentors and the "right" organizational culture? How do we help organizations see that social and informal learning is not a new and fancy way to learn but an essential requirement in a complex, rapidly changing, and uber connected world?

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 22, 2019

Sometimes we as learning professionals don’t need to have “the answer” for the learner. Sometimes we instead help learners connect with people who can support their learning experience. Here are some ways we can do that: Create communities of practice that either meet in person or virtually.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

Companies are outsourcing their course development so internal L&D can focus on communicating and connecting. Becoming CURATORS of information – tagging, editing. Moderate social communities. Creating “cultures of continuous learning” Will mobile fundamentally alter the way we learn? Clark says yes.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Here are the most popular posts on the Informal Learning Blog in 2009. Business Impact of Social and Informal Learning. T o implement social/informal learning infrastructure projects, learning and development professionals need to shift their focus from learning to earning. Internet culture.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 6, 2015

When we worry about the status of their credentials or lose sleep over their completion rates, we’re perpetuating an out-dated paradigm of education based on formal learning. I prefer to see MOOCs through the lens of informal learning which values the learning over its bureaucracy. The 3 mindsets of m-learning.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. Jay has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix. A champion of informal learning and systems thinking, Jay’s calling is to create happier, more productive workplaces.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Angry Birds – the game – can certainly be used as a model for eLearning; it has all the attributes that make for effective game-based learning: immediate rewards and feedback, increasingly challenging tasks, focus on action and decision-making. Feedback] creates a sense of emotional support (e.g.,

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 22, 2013

My initial step would be to establish a social media system, supporting conversations and collaboration on work teams and communities of practice. They’d also be able to both create and share media, video, audio, and screencasts. Thus, any created job aids would be appropriately located.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

A MOOC is an intrinsically participative, collaborative mode of learning. A MOOC has a core topic and a set of created or curated content modules covering the topic to a desired depth and level. However, this is dependent on each individual’s willingness to perceive diverse world-views and frameworks as learning tools.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

Compare to other alternatives (formal/informal learning). Tom Stone: Or a common I hear about our wikis… “I feel enabled to actually create more valuable documentation than I did in the past. I actually record valuable informal conversations in the wiki, before the value of those just were lost over time.&#.

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Jay Cross

JULY 7, 2013

We’re seeing a more interactive model of learning. Think about how you learn a new software program. Communities of practice , a term coined by Institute for Research on Learning staff. Newcomers learn as they become members of that team. Learning is a condition of continuing membership in that community.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

community of practice. How can we create a system that changes as context changes? Posted in Informal Learning, Learning Communities. Tags: Informal Learning Learning Communities learning learntrends. This is post 3 of 3. Beyond Networks. George Siemens. inspiration.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. Jay has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix. A champion of informal learning and systems thinking, Jay’s calling is to create happier, more productive workplaces.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 8, 2012

Given that the goal of instructional designers and training developers is to improve employee performance, it’s surprising that many continue to create blended learning programs with little or no reliance on performance support tools or systems. Learning Portals – act as hubs for all the resources listed above.

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Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 24, 2018

Usage of learning portals for corporate training initiatives is gaining momentum. In this article, I share 4 examples of how you can use them for both formal and informal learning to increase employee engagement. Learning Portals For Corporate Training: What Are Their Key Characteristics? Recommended learning paths.

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Instilled

JULY 2, 2019

Capture Tacit Knowledge and Build Communities of Practice. Hyper-connected learners aren’t just connected to learning technology. With easy access to learning platforms and other technologies that support collaboration , L&D teams can foster social learning and encourage the creation and growth of communities of practice.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

A MOOC is an intrinsically participative, collaborative mode of learning. A MOOC has a core topic and a set of created or curated content modules covering the topic to a desired depth and level. However, this is dependent on each individual’s willingness to perceive diverse world-views and frameworks as learning tools.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

After my last blog post , a commenter asked a pertinent question: Many organizations/companies have multiple intranets, wiki sites, and so forth, often making it difficult for employees to know where to go when they want an answer or more information. If you have hundreds of user communities, you should have hundreds of portals.

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Litmos

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

When we are presented with learning material (hopefully as part of a learning experience), we process it. That is, we create an interpretation of what we have been exposed to. We create mental models that explain the world. And, importantly, once we’ve created models, they’re really hard to extinguish. In one way.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Creativity is a conversation--a tension--between individuals working on individual problems, and the professional communities they belong to. In a flattened learning system, there are fewer experts and more fellow learners on paths that may cross.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 2, 2008

What is e-learning 2.0? “The idea of learning through digital connections and peer collaboration enhanced by technologies driving Web 2.0. Users/Learners are empowered to search, create, and collaborate in order to fulfill intrinsic needs to learn new information.&#. Asynchronous e-learning is high.

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Jay Cross

MAY 1, 2012

Six years ago few people believed that informal learning made much of a difference. Today’s common wisdom is that most workplace learning is experiential, unplanned, social, and informal. Informal learning tops many training department agendas. Now we know we create them via artificial insemination.

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The Learning Circuits

JULY 9, 2012

Social media and mobile technologies have turned the spotlight on social learning concepts, which in turn have made more of us think about the large, ill-charted dark matter of culture : informal learning. Their work here is done , because everyone in your care now understands the value of social and informal learning.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

What I have learned in the last 3 years have been completely via social media. Social, informal learning. I am a part of a huge global network of educators and learned, a virtual community of practice. Knowledge in this community is constantly being reconstructed through dialogue, conversation, and debate.

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Recognises that formal learning accounts for small % of how people learn in the organisation. Training often outsourced, on-demand access to self-paced learning, f2f networking important, facilitated collaborative/peer-learning available in the workflow. Informal learning. Social learning. Technology.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Try Before You Buy Tools Used Better Conferences - Response Needed Roles in CoP's The science of learning Learning 2.0 My Top 25 blogs for 2008 Blogging as Reflective Practice The Elearning Apprentice Part 2: A four-level framework for evaluating social network ROI.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Libraries and 'seats of learning' were traditionally the places to be when formal learning was required. All around, communities and families were also there for informal learning processes to be supported. This in turn promotes new forms of learning. We can also manipulate context.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Hence, the importance of communities of practice. He described self-organizing learning ecologies (what I have called learnscapes and workscapes) in which communities of practice collide and overlap, continuously creating and consuming knowledge.

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