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5 Ways Managers Can Encourage Staff To Do Professional Development Online

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How To Encourage Informal Professional Development At Work In my previous blog post, I wrote about how workers and job seekers likely undervalue the benefits of free online learning and professional development opportunities. eLearning blogs elearning elearning guild informal learning instructional design Web Courseworks'

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Content Curation & Association Education Strategy

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Maybe not, but the Internet and its astonishing volumes of information published daily has created the need for digital curation. Most of this activity has been the domain of the membership department and the delivery is almost always on the “informal learning” side of the continuum.

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Associations’ Mission to Teach: Social Media vs. Formal Education

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Social media discussions have become a common way to obtain information. Relying on listservs to share information among a community of practitioners has evolved into launching social media networks. Educators, however, would argue that “informal learning”, although [.]. “Just Google it”: a modern day mantra.

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5 Ways Managers Can Encourage Staff To Do Professional Development Online

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How To Encourage Informal Professional Development At Work. In my previous blog post, I wrote about how workers and job seekers likely undervalue the benefits of free online learning and professional development opportunities. Consider these five ways you can make this a priority in your workplace.

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Instructional Design Post-SCORM

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The only data points and information received from a course using SCORM is amount of time spent, status in course (in-progress, complete, failed), the completion score, and how the learner answered the questions. xAPI tracks any learning experience inside or outside the LMS, including informal learning done by the learner.

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Game To Teach Researching Skills

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With all the chatter about social learning and widely available information sources like Wikipedia, our students have been somewhat misguided at times about where to gather trustworthy information for research projects. Social gaming encourages informal learning. Teaches real world skills. High-score leader board.

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How Is xAPI Being Used in the eLearning Community?

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SCORM currently tracks the learning that takes place inside of an LMS without considering the learning that takes place outside of the LMS such as informal learning, classroom learning, or on-the-job learning. The learning data is stored in terms of activities that learners have completed.

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