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. But then, we shouldn’t leave that to chance.

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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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Obsidian Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

When you’re designing learning, don’t overlook the importance of informal learning. This is learning that takes place outside of the classroom or the eLearning activity. In fact, we typically learn more from informal learning than from formal learning experiences. Build a Learning Culture.

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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. Most of this activity has been the domain of the membership department and the delivery is almost always on the “informal learning” side of the continuum.

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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

Learners need to believe that what they are learning is valued, that their managers will help them find opportunities to apply that learning on the job, and that their bosses will not block their development and advancement in the organization. More effective, sustainable learning occurs in the normal course of doing the work.

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

In contrast, social and experiential learning continue to be veritable goldmines of productivity, placing learners at the centre of their story and demanding a major shift from Learning & Development professionals. formal learning elements (micro videos, webinars, workshops). social networks (yammer, chatter).

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Tony Karrer

JULY 18, 2006

Great post by Harold Jarche - Informal Learning and Performance Technology responding to my post - Informal Learning - Let's Get Real. Performance Interventions ** Learning Interventions Instructional Interventions (e.g., Performance Interventions ** Learning Interventions Instructional Interventions (e.g.,

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 5, 2012

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., training) and informal learning experiences (e.g., communities of practice). Helping workers learn continuously on the job.

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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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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.

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Matrix

MARCH 22, 2018

Today’s employees focus a lot on learning and development — both personal and professional — as they know that acquiring new knowledge and skills, and always improving these, is the way to a successful career. Therefore, getting the right learning opportunities makes them feel valued. What is a CoP and what it isn’t.

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 22, 2019

Social learning is an important developing aspect of the learning technology industry. So much of what we learn comes from informal interactions with the people we know, whether we’re interacting in person or through social media. You can find out more in the below video.

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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. I’d make sure that folks could establish dialogs, work together on documents, and share files, quick pointers, and more fully developed thoughts.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 2, 2015

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., training) and informal learning experiences (e.g., communities of practice). Helping workers learn continuously on the job.

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Social Networks Culture Organization Create 100

Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

The role of L&D is to communicate and connect those who are doing the work (at the top of the pyramid) and management whose job is to support them. Companies are outsourcing their course development so internal L&D can focus on communicating and connecting. Becoming CURATORS of information – tagging, editing.

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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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Blended Learning Social Networks Internet Informal Learning 113

ATD Learning Technologies

MARCH 22, 2016

Even those of use working in talent development can be overwhelmed by the constant flow of learning technology trends. Often, the surge new tech can leave us wondering how to keep up with all the fads—and how to incorporate useful new tools into our learning initiatives. Look for ways to immediately use what you learned.

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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. Shared practices create bonds between people. We are all members of multiple communities of practice.

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

I believe they are all very essential reads for today’s learning and development folks. 1 Instructional Design Multimedia Learning Richard Mayer. 2 Workplace Learning The Fifth Discipline Peter Senge. 3 Workplace Learning Informal learning Jay Cross. SoMe/Collaboration/Workplace learning Enterprise 2.0

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Social Networks Cognitive Enterprise 2.0 Social Network 172

Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

The emergent nature of MOOCs can have interesting outcomes: They can enable the formation of Communities of Interests (CoIs), which can evolve into Communities of Practices (CoPs) if participants are keen on building the domain knowledge and practices. It is only through dialogue and discourse that patterns evolve.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

community of practice. System can be changing faster than training can be developed. information & message shaping. Posted in Informal Learning, Learning Communities. Tags: Informal Learning Learning Communities learning learntrends. This is post 3 of 3.

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Instilled

JULY 2, 2019

Rather than delivering learning that requires employees to take time from their roles to complete, L&D teams can harness the hyperconnectivity that pervades the modern workplace to seamlessly integrate training and development into the learner’s day-to-day tasks. Capture Tacit Knowledge and Build Communities of Practice.

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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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Learning 2.0 Blended Learning Social Networks Gartner 132

Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

In essence, Vygotskii's argument is that all humans learn within rich social and cultural situations, and that children and novices learn better when they are in the presence of knowledgeable or more experienced others than they do when they are on their own. This is known as the zone of proximal development (ZPD).

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 20, 2010

Image via Wikipedia "Collaboration is a process through which people who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for the solution that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible." ~ Anecdote And informal learning is hinged on collaboration.

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Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Teaching and learning practices benefit from the collective knowledge that social technology provides. Social media practices can facilitate new forms of collaborative knowledge construction. It encourages civic engagement in broader communities of practice.

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Social Networks Summary Emergent Classroom 66

The Learning Circuits

MAY 2, 2006

I'm currently preparing a project for European funding aiming at the development of communities of practice as a structured way of fostering and deepening transfer and sharing of skills, knowledge and competency. Clark and others will no doubt have an opinion, but that isn't really what concerns me today).

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Jane Hart

JUNE 4, 2012

Although, modern office spaces do provide open meeting areas which support informal gatherings, remember too that we also learn with others virtually – even when we are sitting on our own – so we also need to provide similar virtual informal (learning) spaces.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

More than anything else, there was a significant shift in the strategic thinking of learning and development leaders. During this time, learning leaders understood how the speed of employee development was an unmatchable competitive weapon. Leveraging the lessons. An integrated ecosystem supersedes separate efforts.

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Metrics Lesson Performance Support Unison 89

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 20, 2012

This model came from a look at how people act in the world and I was reminded of it during a conversation on informal learning. However, there may be times when we can’t rely on that well-practiced approach (say, for instance, if our usual route home is blocked for some reason).

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Mindflash

AUGUST 30, 2016

Perhaps learning and development professionals do think about informal learning but do not really know what it is or how to implement it. Here are some practical approaches to informal learning. The new salesperson will learn more quickly with high-touch contact with a experienced sales person.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Even without that, however, there are big offerings on the table for informal learning, via access to resources and networks. Social Formal Learning. The additional benefit is the connection between formal and informal. Performance Ecosystem (Workscape) Strategy. Performance Ecosystem (Workscape) Strategy.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

The emergent nature of MOOCs can have interesting outcomes: They can enable the formation of Communities of Interests (CoIs), which can evolve into Communities of Practices (CoPs) if participants are keen on building the domain knowledge and practices. Hence, these require learners to “pull” their own learning.

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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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