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Informal Learning and Black Swans

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So here is the lesson in learning Business learning today is designed to fill a skills or knowledge 'gap', to provide workers with skills and knowledge required in today's business world. It provides learners with skills and knowledge they're highly likely to need, today and tomorrow. Then one day it's head is chopped off.

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Fish are the last to recognise water = informal learning?

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design informal learning opportunities to meet the development needs of workers. use the skills and knowledge of the group. So what does this mean for workplace learning? design opportunities to stretch your teams capabilities. provide easy access to organisational knowledge, preferably online. embrace enterprise-based social networks.

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The Village of Twitter

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He explain how children in the USA complete the California Achievement Test at the end of each school year to assess their maths and reading skills. But those that learn the most are surrounded by managers and co-workers who take an interest in their development, again informal learning.

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Permission Learning - encouraging the informal

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The ideal informal learning scenario is that workers have given their express permission for knowledge and skills updates/videos/etc to appear via links in their inbox. Personal relationships are good, but they take time to develop and are not transferable across the business. There is a potential upside to this level of permission.

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5 great speakers from the AITD conference - a summary of ideas

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A couple of weeks ago I flew up to Sydney for a few days to attend the Australian Institute of Training and Development's 2010 conference. Tania has broad interests and seemingly clearly superior time-management skills! I'd seen the program 6 months earlier and thought that there were a few sessions that looked pretty interesting.

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