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Informal Learning and Black Swans

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So here is the lesson in learning Business learning today is designed to fill a skills or knowledge 'gap', to provide workers with skills and knowledge required in today's business world. In other words, 'predictable' learning needs lead to formal learning solutions - problem solved! Learning for learning sake.

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Fish are the last to recognise water = informal learning?

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I just twittered a thought - 'The benefit of Informal learning is that fish are the last to recognise water' - and then I started thinking. This is the real essence of informal learning. So what does this mean for workplace learning? design informal learning opportunities to meet the development needs of workers.

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Permission Learning - encouraging the informal

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It's strange how the mind works, I saw the title and I thought "mmm, that's how to get traction for informal learning in the workplace". From this position, Seth coined the term 'Permission Marketing' to describe a way forward for marketing messages in an world of information overload. So, to informal learning!

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My Top 10 'Learning' books from 2010

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A good deal of the work that I do is really about weaving stories for learners and I found that the book has provided many ideas to improve what I do. The book presents through a range of stories/case studies and provides glimpses of the creative/design process used within IDEO. Change by Design - Tim Brown.

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The Village of Twitter

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In an earlier post on Informal Learning I made the observation that social networks allow people to create their own villages of learning. Schools, universities and formal learning have been undoubted successes. Workers learn a great deal through formal channels. However this is now being questioned. Web/Tech.

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'Scared of first' - why business is resisting new learning.

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Over the last 4-5 years I have seen and heard so much about new technologies, elearning, informal learning and so forth. BUT I see businesses introducing 'click, click, click' 'powerpoint-style' elearning and believing that this means that their learning is 'modern'. Informal learning means losing control.

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Learning & Design Thinking - part 1

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I really wanted to encourage the audience to see learning design as just a subset of design generally and doing do provides us with an opportunity to borrow tools from the design profession and then mix them with traditional L&D tools. Design Thinking. Above are three tenets of Design Thinking.

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