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More info here , if you want to learn how it works.). If you’re looking for my thoughts on working smarter, informal business, and accelerating time-to-performance, go to the Informal Learning blog. I admit it. couldn’t live without my daily drugs. Every day I take 5 to 7.5 milligrams of rat poison. 141 , 142.
 
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
On our weekly twitter learning fest, #lrnchat , I regularly identify myself as a learning experience design strategist.  First, I think it is important to stop thinking about content, and start thinking about learning experience.  When you think about creating learning experiences, you are talking about design. 
 

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Cross is a champion of informal learning, Web 2.0, He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix three decades ago. They are currently refining informal/web 2.0 learning management approaches that accelerate performance.
This question “what IS informal learning?&# 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. Advanced Web-Based Training Strategies: Unlocking Instructionally Sound Online Learning (p. 2005).
It captures my current thinking about informal learning. Tags: Informal Learning YouTube of Jay’s UMBC ISD Now! webinar. Warning: This sucker is 64 minutes long.
Informal learning takes place outside of traditional settings like classrooms, training rooms and self study programmes. Although humans have been learning informally for thousands of years, recently there has been a huge increase in technology enabled informal learning. Informal learning - what is it?
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.  62;  Motivation for learning. 62;  A culture that provides access to other people  who support learning in a wide variety of ways. Who are these coaches?  For
Harm told me about his team’s experience with informal learning in an engagement with Sara Lee. Sara Lee wanted to invest in technology in the domain of learning. At the beginning of this century, learning management systems were quite dominant, and therefore dominant on the radar screen of Sara Lee. Networking.
We may learn on our own but usually not by ourselves. People learn socially. One is internally focused, as in “How do I learn this?” and the other is external, as in “Who can help me learn this?”. Exchanging: We exchange and note ideas and information all of the time. Tags: Informal Learning Retrieve.
Every morning, my email is littered with very basic questions about informal learning. I’ve been ranting about informal and computer-supported learning in organizations for twelve years now. I’m the Johnny Appleseed of networked, social learning. Connie: What is your definition of informal learning?
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. Learning Environment Design. Learning environment design is more topic- or learner-driven. 
Telling people that we can “formalize informal learning&# is a not so subtle way of saying, “it’s OK, you don’t have to make any fundamental changes to the way you’ve been been doing training & development for the past half century&#. All learning is a bit of both. Tough.