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Formalizing informal learning?

Clark Quinn

The Entreprise Collaborative has a new question , asking whether we can formalize informal learning. To me, it’s not about formalizing informal learning so much as explicitly supporting it versus ignoring it. Like the proverbial ’stuff’, informal learning happens. I see two roles.

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Bob Mosher Workshop on Informal Learning

Learning Visions

I’ll be there with bells on – and not just because the workshop is being held five minutes from my house, but also because Bob Mosher is an amazingly dynamic and engaging speaker with lots of practical ideas for your learning organization. Tags: bob mosher ispi informal learning.

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How to Start an Informal Learning Library with Screencasts

TechSmith Camtasia

So why wouldn’t we do the same for something as important as learning? Informal Learning helps us do just that. Online libraries that store informal learning content can prove to be very useful for both the learner and the teacher. What is Informal Learning? This is where informal learning comes in.

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Online Tools for Evaluating Informal Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Learning occurs in "informal" (another term that I don’t like but is gaining traction) settings and online, as well as in the classroom. How can we know what is learned informally and what difference that learning makes to the success of an organization?

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Monitoring informal learning with a Learning Record Store

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

It was written on the basis of a session with Ben Betts organized by MOOCfactory called 'Meeting more minds'. Experience API, XAPI, Learning Record Stores, TinCan API do you know what this is about? In the past five years many organizations worked hard to make educational materials available to employees.

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Work as Improv Theater: Teaching the Right-Brained Learner.

Dashe & Thomson

The era of “left brain” dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which “right brain” qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate. I’ve often wondered what all this right-brained thinking means for the learning industry. Learning has become the work.

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military by Jim on May 19, 2011 in Gaming Theory Think game-based training doesn’t have anything to offer your organization in the way of savings? Properly d.