Kapp Notes

JULY 8, 2010

There has been a lot of talk about formal vs. informal learning in the educational blogosphere and when it comes right down to it, formal learning is the most effective. The processes have been formalized, in knowledge work, many of the processes are formalized. Here's why.

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ID Reflections

APRIL 22, 2010

What does Agile have to do with Informal Learning and Instructional Design? Agile means the willingness to be in a perpetual state of Beta, accepting that there is no closure, can be no closure with information, requirements, needs, business opportunities changing at lightning speed. It's all about the mindset.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 2, 2008

Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : Today, active involvement in informal learning, particularly through web-based communities, is key to remaining professional and creative in a field. Being a learning professional in a Web 2.0 world is becoming more about your network than your current knowledge. Tagging : What is this?

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The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 28, 2009

It also includes the Periodic Table of Agile Learning. Arguments For Informal Learning. Jay Cross lays out some excellent reasons for organizations to incorporate informal learning into their overall training strategy in this article. LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers. How cool is that? Tweet This!

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Clark Quinn

JULY 2, 2008

Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : Today, active involvement in informal learning, particularly through web-based communities, is key to remaining professional and creative in a field. Being a learning professional in a Web 2.0 world is becoming more about your network than your current knowledge. Tagging : What is this?

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Coach: In general, how do you compare the effect and impact of informal learning in the workplace versus formal, structured eLearning? So by shear volume, informal learning is the most powerful tool for learning in organizations. The impact of informal learning is huge. Email this to a friend?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 25, 2010

David has been a major influence on my views of knowledge management. The Gurteen Knowledge-Letter is a free monthly e-mail based KM newsletter for Knowledge Workers. It is sponsored by the Knowledge Management Forum of the Henley Business School, Oxfordshire, England. Tags: General.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

“Empowering individuals to learn through discovery how to lead from their strengths is a major fulcrum for my work,” says Cross, who has written extensively on the subject of self-directed and informal learning and its increasing relevance and effectiveness — as compared to company-provided training — in today’s knowledge economy.

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eLearning Learning Posts

JULY 14, 2009

LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009. New skills for learning professionals - Informal Learning , July 1, 2009. Social and Networked Learning , July 4, 2009. New skills for learning professionals , July 10, 2009. Knowledge (45). Tags: Best.

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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2009

The Role of Informal Learning – Application & Implementation. We embed task-relevant job aids (PSOs – informal learning tools) into the bear’s workflow. We practice using them in task-relevant simulations with stated intent that these are the same informal tools for use in the field…err…the woods. The woods.

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Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2013

It is a strange conundrum that most organisational learning that is presented in digital format is delivered through Learning Management Systems (LMS) - many of which are so poorly designed or difficult to navigate that employees and students tend to avoid using them. Finally, learning should be situated. References Godin, S.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2010

On the way home from the Swiss eLearning Conference, my mind was racing after three days of talking with interesting people and spreading the informal learning gospel. Not quite micro-learning, but a step in that direction. A workscape is a learning ecology. Tags: Increasing profitability.

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The Learning Circuits

JULY 1, 2008

So, if we have responsibility for informal learning, social learning, eLearning 2.0 , long tail learning , etc. Don't we have to conclude that learning professionals must be literate in these things? If so, then what should learning professionals do to become literate? I personally see this as much bigger.

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eLearning Learning Posts

APRIL 6, 2010

The plan is to provide a centralized location for examples of e-learning courses and details about the instructional design process used in creating them. Social Media for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , March 30, 2010 Lot s of information on different social media tools that knowledge workers should know about.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2009

When information abounds, peers take over. In a knowledge era, workers are the means of production. Knowledge workers do their best when challenged to figure things out for themselves. Think of learning as a partnership with learners, not “delivery.”. Tags: metalearning working_smarter.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Top 100 Tools for Learning: The Final List , Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day , November 16, 2009. Learning for the 21st Century - Informal Learning , December 17, 2008. LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009. Informal learning - what is it?

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eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Social Learning in the Workplace 2 - The E-Learning Curve , April 22, 2010 Lev Vygotsky’s argues that learning precedes development. Post from: The eLearning Coach How To Create A Visual Hierarchy …Tags: Tags: GRAPHICS MEDIA elearning design graphics for elearning screen design visual hierarch.

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Living in Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2009

That is a perfect example of the fifth learning moment of need – when things go wrong – and not covered by my prior knowledge and skills. To cover those unplanned moments of learning need, our jobs extend beyond the training role to that of supporting informal learning downstream from formal classroom or online transactions.

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 4, 2009

LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009 How to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. New skills for learning professionals - Informal Learning , July 1, 2009 Jay Cross response to this month’s big question “In a Learning 2.0

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 23, 2009

We are behind the flow of business, and many of us do design and develop solutions for the bigger slice of the learning opportunity pie. If knowledge workers are not in training, they must be at work. The type of learning that is rapidly trending upward is informal learning. Expanded Scope of Discovery.

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eLearning Learning Posts

OCTOBER 5, 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.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Focused on knowledge workers–people who use digital info in their jobs. not knowledge workers. Do you think many people at your organization can do this kind of learning without guidance? We are all in these communities so it’s easier for us–how do you help average knowledge workers?

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eLearning Learning Posts

MARCH 3, 2010

Formalizing informal learning? Learnlets , February 16, 2010 The Entreprise Collaborative has a new question , asking whether we can formalize informal learning. New Technology Supporting Informal Learning offers a great “state of the field” analysis of change pressures and tools/methods available as a response.

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Instancy

MARCH 23, 2021

Learning can happen within the work environment or business chat applications. For example, learning may be assessed within chat and work collaboration apps like Microsoft Teams. Learning can be pushed to the knowledge worker automatically using artificial techniques based on the work tasks being performed. .

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

This learning is closely related to Collaboration (my favorite word as people who know me will recognize). Background: I think most knowledge workers approach work from two perspectives. Most managers and management make the mistake of conflating information with involvement.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 24, 2010

L ast year I led workshops in London, Madrid , San Jose, Quebec, and Berlin on how to sell social networking and informal learning to senior management. Learning taints the conversation. I changed the name of my new book from Informal Learning in the Cloud to Working Smarter. Knowledge is inherently unmanageable.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 14, 2009

In the first hour-long segment, an Industry Perspectives panelist, Josh Bersin made an observation that validated one significant trend in particular – the rapid increase in the use of informal learning. In their work context is where informal learning opportunities surface as best of breed learning solutions.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2010

Training directors see learners; everyone else sees workers or employees.). Knowledge Workers. The knowledge worker’s objective is to learn what it takes to do the best she can. A great industrial worker might be half again as productive as his middle-of-the road peer. There’s more and more to learn.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 10, 2009

In the Age of Networks, customers can vanish and knowledge workers cross the chasm in the blink of an eye. Half of a high-school grads lack the fundamental skills required of an entry-level knowledge worker. Workers are learners, and learners are workers. Today, all knowledge workers are free agents.

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Janet Clarey

APRIL 2, 2009

Goals pretty evenly spread among rapid e-learning (consumption and development), reduce costs, support informal learning, improve productivity. Tagging/Bookmarking - described how they worked; relatively low adoption but may increase as more LMSs include. For knowledge management. As part of a learning plan.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

A superlative industrial worker was 25% more productive than average. An exemplary knowledge worker can be 200x more productive than average. So in addition to the baggage we inherit from schools, we inhabit an unpredictable world of rampant change, ambient information, disruptive volatility, and digital overload.

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

How to support informal learning - Informal Learning , July 12, 2010 Interview. Cross is a champion of informal learning, Web 2.0, Augmented Reality for Learning - eLearning Technology , July 26, 2010 A colleague just asked me if I knew anyone who was using Augmented Reality for learning.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

I announced the Informal Learning 2.0 Knowledge workers have replaced factory workers. Shareholders owned the factories, but workers own their minds. Information spreading through network connections empowers workers to make decisions and take responsibility for them. Tags: Just Jay.

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Jay Cross

JULY 17, 2012

However, go to any training conference, including ASTD’s own International Conference and Exhibition, and you don’t hear much about instructor-led training or self-paced learning. Training is not the same as learning. Real learning takes place elsewhere. Search, tags, indexes, rankings. Feeds, Tweets, streams. Know where.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 17, 2010

If workers produced one widget an hour, paying by the hour was equivalent to paying by the widget. For the knowledge worker, time on the job often is unrelated to output. Now visualize the workflow of a creative knowledge worker: nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, flash of brilliance, nothing, nothing, nothing.

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