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The Lonely eLearner: Creating Social Learning Anchors | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

So how can we, as instructional designers and eLearning developers, avoid the problems created by eLearning-in-a-vacuum? I think we need to provide learners with some “social anchors&# in these types of eLearning programs to help facilitate the social learning process. But that is a topic for another day.

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How to Start an Informal Learning Library with Screencasts

TechSmith Camtasia

So why wouldn’t we do the same for something as important as learning? Informal Learning helps us do just that. Online libraries that store informal learning content can prove to be very useful for both the learner and the teacher. What is Informal Learning? This is where informal learning comes in.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Like many enterprise learning companies, we are actively brainstorming ways to incorporate collaborative Web 2.0 technologies into our training programs, but rarely do we find a client that wants to create a robust learning environment comprised of both formal and informal components. ILT vs. WBT vs. informal learning).

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Monitoring informal learning with a Learning Record Store

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Why invest in creating if you can use existing content? The children visit the museum and get a name tag. The tag can monitor what the children do at the museum, and this data is stored on the LRS. The teacher may use this information to adapt his class teachings. Enter content curation.

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Work as Improv Theater: Teaching the Right-Brained Learner.

Dashe & Thomson

To start answering these questions, we have to acknowledge that formal learning, as we know it today, will not be effective in the future. Instead, we will need to put the workers themselves in charge of their own learning. This position is well-articulated in this post by Jay Cross at his Informal Learning Blog.

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Creating a knowledge-sharing culture in your organization

Learning Pool

We learn, collaborate, and share knowledge every day as we use social media, search engines and wiki sites to discover how to do stuff. So, why not apply that way of learning to the workplace and create a learning and knowledge-sharing culture in your organization? Making the most of informal learning.

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Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network by Jolene on April 28, 2011 in Informal Learning , Instructional Design , Training Development , Video , social learning According to the 1996 report from the U.S.