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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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The point of preference

E-Learning Provocateur

As any L&D professional worth their salt will know, there is no weight of evidence to support the widely disseminated notion that some people learn more effectively visually, while others learn more effectively verbally.

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Using Mobile to Capture Informal Learning

Growth Engineering

Formal learning has a tendency to be just that – formal – and sometimes it fails to speak to the learner in a way they can identify with. The challenge to provide a regular stream of relevant content makes it tempting to tap the well of informal learning. What do we mean when we talk about capturing informal learning?

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Quiz: Have you got the New Workplace Learning mindset?

Jane Hart

2) Do you think that learning needs to be designed to solve every business or job problem? But, what is more unfortunate is that even those who have begun to realize that informal learning is an important part of workplace learning, still think that informal learning can be “designed”, or “blended” with the formal.

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Don’t drink the informal learning snake oil

Jay Cross

I fear that charlatans and dummies are taking informal learning down the same road. An Informal Learning Sequel? While it took six years to arrive, informal learning has become L&D’s flavor of the day. Numerous consultants are offering to help manage informal learning. (It No, no, no.

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AI and Meaningful Practice

Clark Quinn

Now, I’ve always maintained that such systems aren’t sufficient for real learning. Meaningful learning includes more: motivation and contextualized practice. Content presentation and quiz questions may be necessary, but by no means are they sufficient. Coupling the optimal execution with continual innovation.

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Open Source eLearning Tools

Tony Karrer

You can find a long list of tools broken into authoring tools, games/simulations, quiz/test tools, social media, delivery platforms, tracking and whether they support mobile. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs.