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Thursday, February 19, 2009
This question “what IS informal learning?” came up in a meeting the other day. The answer that was given was interesting - but it focused on educational technology. Today’s post will attempt to define informal, and in another post I’ll tackle some technologies that can be used to enhance informal learning.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Informal learning takes place outside of traditional settings like classrooms, training rooms and self study programmes. It is essentially tacit knowledge which we obtain or locate from talking to the correct person. Although humans have been learning informally for thousands of years, recently there has been a huge increase in technology enabled informal learning.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
We constantly go through a process of looking at bits of information and trying to make sense of them by adding to our existing knowledge or testing out new patterns in our sense-making efforts. The Web has given us more ways to connect with others in our learning but many people only see the information overload aspect of our digital society....
...Tags: Informal Learning.
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Friday, July 14, 2006
I can understand the desire to allow for end-user contribution and an evolving system, but my software development background gives me great pause. I've written about exactly this issue several times: Elves, Measuring Results and Informal Learning Informal Learning is Too Important to Leave to Chance Guidance Needed - Are we Misguided in Informal Learning and Collaborative Learning Techniques and have read lots about this.
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Saturday, May 9, 2009
Looking back over recent posts, it starts to become clearer to me what is needed for an informal learning strategy to be effective in the workplace....
Informal learning - by definition – requires a learner to set his or her own goals and to monitor progress toward those goals.
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the idea of “formalizing” informal learning. We all seem to be trying to figure out how to use informal learning to support our workplace learning agendas.
If informal learning is unstructured, and unscheduled, and learner-driven, then what are we doing mucking around in it anyway?
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Monday, May 14, 2007
Posts on the topic of Informal Learning: Formalizing and Investing in Informal Learning No Informal Learning and Blended Learning Mix - CLO Panel Surprises Action on Informal Learning - Leads to Great Questions Numbers and Informal Learning The Real Challenge around Informal Learning More on the Form of Informal The Paradox of Informal Learning (Form of Informal?
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Monday, May 11, 2009
There's a fantastic post by Stephen Downes - New Technology Supporting Informal Learning . In his post, he really is looking primarily at the University of Manitoba's Connectivism Course that he designed and delivered with George Siemens to 2200 students in Fall 2008 and you can tell that he's busy thinking about the technology behind the Fall 2009 course.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Undirected learning is not a straight-line sort of process. It’s easy to fall into the same trap Gina Minks describes in a recent post on informal learning:
“I am easily distracted with shiny, interesting, technical things. Sometimes I don’t realize my search for answers has gone off topic until I have been playing with the shiny new idea for an hour or so.”
Of course, those shiny new ideas often bear fruit down the road – but not in a way that can be easily tracked or monitored...)?
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
I just saw a post by David Wilson - Real metrics on Informal Learning that asks about a subject that we would all like to know. Is investing in informal learning effective? Do you get return? This is a fascinating subject for me, because it leads us straight into The Paradox of Informal Learning (Form of Informal?
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