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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
So here are the top posts based on social signals via eLearning Learning for August 2010. My e-Learning Don’ts - MinuteBio , August 8, 2010 Here is a list I compiled of things I think should NOT be done when designing e-learning courses. It’s a good question for people involved in learning and development. Learn.
 
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
and The ILE and the FLE in harmony , I advocate the development of a virtual Informal Learning Environment (ILE) to work in tandem with the Formal Learning Environment (FLE) to support both the learning process and its administration. Informal learning. believe in the power of informal learning.
 
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
welcome distraction from my Learning Technology Learning. It fits in with my informal learning ethos and lends itself to the extraction of ideas which I can then weave together as I reflect. Hopefully I can achieve a good balance of learning from both in the future. So what's the place of informal learning?
 

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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.