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Evaluating Informal Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Informal learning in organizations is finally being recognized as a key aspect of employee development and performance improvement. But how do you evaluate something that is as unpredictable and serendipitous as informal learning? How do you measure the impact of informal learning experiences?

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Designing eLearning for iPads – Webinar Recording and Q&A

Upside Learning

Finally, here’s everything you wanted to know about eLearning on iPads… and asked! mLearning and Tablet Learning. A: mLearning or Mobile Learning is designed specifically for mobile devices, mostly for learners who are constantly on the move or do not have regular access to traditional learning methodologies.

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15 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest –10

Upside Learning

Lists some of the best apps, available on the iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad (some of which may have Android and Blackberry equivalents), which will help you plan on the go , sketch out your presentations and rehearse almost anywhere. Reader’s Digest Hits the iPad. Informal Workplace Learning.

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Doctoring the Informal Learning Environment

E-Learning Provocateur

Recently Anne Marie blogged Location and Learning (which I have reproduced here) and she asked me whether or not I consider her central idea an example of an Informal Learning Environment (ILE). I know if I were a student doctor, I would completely immerse myself in this learning environment. I would check in every day.

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Online Tools for Evaluating Informal Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

She also suggests apps that can be used to log and document experiences and reactions to experiences on a mobile device (smart phone, iPad, etc.). New technologies are offering many useful ways of monitoring and assessing the impact of “informallearning. . These evaluation tools could easily be applied in work settings.

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eLearning Cyclops: Informal learning. Maybe I Can Informally.

eLearning Cyclops

Informal learning. Maybe I Can Informally Assess Its Impact #LCBQ. This months Big Question at Learning Circuits is regarding assessing the impact of informal learning. If you have identified specific things staff have learned and applied, look for how it has impacted the organization (results).

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9 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 19

Upside Learning

We have said this before and are saying it again; informal learning is the new ‘learning’. This is not to say that informal learning would act as a replacement to the formal mode of learning, but it is the synergy between these both that produces effective growth. The Five Myths of Informal Learning.