Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 19, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Freemium Three: Three Free Tools That Will Work Wonders For Your Next Training Project. Wrike.com Wrike is a tool that I’ve only recently come across, but it strikes me as being a very flexible project management resource.

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Social Networks Wiki Blended Learning Free 124

The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

She writes about “embedded evaluation”: Embedded evaluation integrates “invisible” tools for evaluation into the existing program activities. These evaluation tools could easily be applied in work settings. Employee teams could post the progress and results of their projects on a Web site (e.g., internal wiki).

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Evalution Informal Learning Informal Wiki 147

Dashe & Thomson

MAY 4, 2011

Like many enterprise learning companies, we are actively brainstorming ways to incorporate collaborative Web 2.0 technologies into our training programs, but rarely do we find a client that wants to create a robust learning environment comprised of both formal and informal components. Can you say future book deal?

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Social Networks Social Learning Social Blended Learning 182

Upside Learning

JANUARY 25, 2011

The past weeks have seen a flurry of Web activity – bloggers making predictions for the coming months; retrospections on the year gone by; new product releases; top lists, summary posts being pulled up, and more. At Upside Learning, we have been doing our bit in spreading knowledge. Informal Workplace Learning.

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Social Networks Media Learning Technologies iPad 252

E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

He articulates his position as such: “…a one-or-the-other choice between the two is a false choice between knowledge-dissemination technologies and community-building tools. Mott’s blueprint is the Open Learning Network (OLN). Mine is the Informal Learning Environment (ILE). We can have both.&#.

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Learning Environment Network Informal Learning Environment 162

Upside Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2010

The final list of top 100 tools for learning for 2010 is now out on Jane Hart’s website. I understand this list is more inclined towards tools that learning professionals use for their own learning as opposed to those used for creating learning programs or training sessions. Wordpress – blogging tool.

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Social Networks Survey VoiceThread Tools 259

Origin Learning

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

A little effort to channelize their usage in the intended direction can make them wondrous tools of social learning at the workplace. Now social learning can be enabled through mobile in a number of ways: Generic Apps. Subscribe to our newsletter for best learning solutions & practices.

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Social Learning Social Mobile Tools 195

gomo learning

MAY 14, 2019

Rather, we gain knowledge through a variety of informal means and methods—such as searching the web, asking a coworker for help, or watching online tutorials. And, because these informal learning experiences are already happening in your organization, it’s important to know how to recognize and foster them.

Informal Learning 40

Informal Learning Informal Support Evernote 40

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Suppliers of eLearning courses are looking for tools for better high quality program creation, produce them faster and create them for low cost. In 90s, the standards like AICC and SCORM were developed along with LMS and other tools. Later first generation tools came in which helped developer create courses with similar objectives.

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Change AICC Low Cost eLearning Tools 161

Matrix

AUGUST 22, 2019

Adult learning is very much connected to need and usefulness and as a result it’s paramount for instructional designers to prove the importance of any material they present and allow for learners to go about finding what they think is of educational value at a certain point. Formal and informal learning – two peas in the same pod.

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Informal Learning Informal LMS Specialist 69

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2010

I primarily used the eLearning Learning and Communities and Networks sites and used Conference , Online Facilitation of Conferences , Online Interaction in Conferences , Moderating Online Interaction , and others. When developing PowerPoint slides to use in web conference training follow these guidelines: Simplify content.

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Conference Web Resources Social Networks 199

Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning ….&#%!? Presented by Training Magazine Network Diagram of the learning process: Input: you can get input in lots of ways Organize Apply Evaluate (in a wheel – each of these is a subprocess) Looking first at learning. In a disconnected learning system: Need.

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Informal Learning Informal Metrics Wiki 100

Clark Quinn

MAY 4, 2010

Last October I toured the expo associated with O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 One of the questions I was asking was about tracking the potential benefits of social media in the enterprise, particularly the outcomes of informal learning: rate of problem solving, products and services generated, etc.

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Web Google Docs Doc SharePoint 140

Learning with e's

MARCH 1, 2014

Ivan Illich hoped for a time when the transmission model of education, or ''funnels'', would be replaced by ''educational webs'' - his notion of what we now recognise as social networks. I wrote a post about the contrast between educational funnels and webs in 2011. What would Illich have made of the social web? was emerging.

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Social Media Media Social Tools 87

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 3, 2010

I nformal Learning has been getting a lot of buzz lately. Many vendors claim to offer informal learning, or even “informal learning management&# without having changed anything beyond the words in their advertising. Informal Learning: Five Ways to Do More with Less. Register here. Register here.

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Informal Learning Informal Learn.com Free 75

Tony Karrer

MAY 11, 2009

There's a fantastic post by Stephen Downes - New Technology Supporting Informal Learning. When I look at this from more the PWLE ( Personal WORK and learning environment ) perspective, I find that there are similar functions, but possibly a different mind set. eLearning Technology. Browse eLearning Content

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Informal Learning Informal Learning Technologies PLE 100

Mindflash

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Do they learn more about their job from formal training (classroom, online, etc.) or do they learn more informally (from peers, managers, etc.)? You should find out, and here’s why: Informal learning accounts for over 75% of the learning taking place in organizations today. Reality Check.

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Informal Learning Informal Google Docs Low Cost 108

Learning with e's

JULY 24, 2012

In Deschooling Society , Illich called for personal learning through informal learning networks, and rejected the funnelling approach of mass, unidirectional, instructivist education systems. When they use these tools, he says, children are in their element. It's starting, but it's slow progress.

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Web Education License Creative Commons 72

Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning [My notes from a webinar. Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning … &#%!? Formal learning is intentional. [I

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Informal Learning Informal Metrics Wiki 100

Obsidian Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

When you’re designing learning, don’t overlook the importance of informal learning. This is learning that takes place outside of the classroom or the eLearning activity. It could be knowledge gained from reading, Web searching, or from colleagues and friends. Build a Learning Culture. Pershing (Ed.),

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Informal Learning Classes Informal Wiki 40

eLearning Cyclops

JUNE 20, 2011

Cool Tools to Liven Up The Classroom. I just read an article in T&D Magazine titled "Beef Up Your Training Toolbox with Web Tool." Green , offered suggestions for how you can use web tools to increase engagement in the traditional classroom. Jeff - How I make e-learning fun! Informal learning.

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eLearning Tools Classroom Authoring Tools Tools 110

Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 24, 2023

He has been studying and supporting it for many years and is co-author of the highly acclaimed Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results (Pfeiffer, 2010). And this learning culture leads to higher performance as employees embrace continuous development on the job.

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Research Examples Sample Performance Support 130

TOPYX LMS

AUGUST 15, 2017

One of those things is leveraging webinars as a learning tool. A webinar, or a web-based seminar, is a presentation, workshop, seminar, or lecture that takes place online through video conferencing software. Webinars are an ideal tool for increasing employee engagement. A webinar is both social/informal and formal.

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LMS Webcast WebEx Learning Management System 145

The eLearning Coach

DECEMBER 28, 2009

12 Top Notch Online Presentation Tools. Whether yours are formal or informal, this list of online presentation applications from SitePoint might be useful to you. It also includes the Periodic Table of Agile Learning. Arguments For Informal Learning. Learning Styles, Multiple Intelligences and Web Tools.

Web 73

Web Social Networks eLearning Strategy Brandon Hall 73

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

This set me thinking about how I manage my personal knowledge and from there it led to the tools I use to do in this networked world. Lately, I have started using a number of Web tools actively. Resource links, suggestions, insights that have taught me more in a year than I learned in the previous five 2.

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Tools Evernote Delicious Wiki 104

Upside Learning

MAY 29, 2012

Last week Microsoft launched a new network called so.cl – pronounced ‘social’ – which is being discussed all over the web. It is described as “an experimental research project, developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, focused on exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of learning.”

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Social Networks Social Search Microsoft Search 228

eLearning Cyclops

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Jane Hart is gathering top ten lists for e-learning tools. Thus far, 203 people in the e-learning field have submitted their list. I have posted my e-learning toolkit in the past, but not what I necessarily consider my "top e-learning tools." So, here are my top 10 e-learning tools.

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DHTML Authoring Tools Outstart Tools 100

Big Dog, Little Dog

AUGUST 27, 2008

This should be shocking enough to force some sort of change in e-Learning design, but it hasn't. to informal learning to learning 2.0 informal learning/learning 2.0. So lets meet in the middle and put formal learning at 25% and informal learning at 75%. s benefits.

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eLearning 2.0 Learning 2.0 Informal Learning Web 32

Learnnovators

JANUARY 18, 2014

The year saw many interesting developments directly impacting e-learning in areas like: Courseware Authoring Tools. LMSs, LCMSs, and Learning Management Platforms. Learning Standards/Specifications (Experience API). Learning Analytics. Learning Styles (Personalized & Adaptive). Mobile Learning.

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Predictions Authoring Tools Gamification Analytics 186

Tony Karrer

JULY 14, 2006

I've written about exactly this issue several times: Elves, Measuring Results and Informal Learning Informal Learning is Too Important to Leave to Chance Guidance Needed - Are we Misguided in Informal Learning and Collaborative Learning Techniques and have read lots about this. Is that all we've got?

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Informal Learning Instructional Design Informal ADDIE 100

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 29, 2010

Top Informal Learning links for the first month of 2010. Tools for Finding Creative Commons Images - Full Circle , January 2, 2010. Top Tools For Tracking Topics on the Web - ReadWriteWeb , January 21, 2010. The K-factor Lesson: How Social Ecosystems Grow (Or Not) - Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0

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Informal Learning Informal Cognitive eLearning Guild 43

Docebo

JULY 8, 2021

While there remains a need for formal training environments to meet specific learning outcomes, the necessity for organizations to leverage platforms that enable social and informal learning, where learners network, share, collaborate, and exchange ideas to solve problems, is paramount. What is social learning?

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Social Learning Adoption Adopt Social 241

Litmos

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Consider the internet; developments on top of the TCP/IP protocol like SMTP and HTML allowed a variety of tools to work together to bring us email and the world wide web. Which is a preface to talk about learning standards, and the field is quite dynamic right now. Learning Standards. This is all learning.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 6, 2006

The Real Challenge around Informal Learning Over the last few days I've had a blog conversation with Stephen Downes around what is informal learning: The Form of Informal - 2 More on the Form of Informal The Form of Informal The Paradox of Informal Learning (Form of Informal?)

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Informal Learning Informal Performance Support eLearning 2.0 100

Upside Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2009

In the workplace, a successful learning strategy must necessarily include elements of social media/tools and mobile learning because that’s what a lot of users need - tools to support social informal learning.

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Social Media Media Social Mobile 255

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 10, 2006

Like… how can you prevent garbage from being posted on blogs, do companies need to hire professional announcers for their podcasts how will organizations incorporate the next “hot” technology into their learning toolkit. It is basically a question of how can we really use these Web 2.0 We better stop bad mouthing Web 2.0

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Informal Learning Informal Games Mash-up 100

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Informal Learning Flow. Next month, a new aggregator on Working Smarter from Internet Time Alliance , sponsored by Xyleme , will replace Informal Learning Flow. Open Source eLearning Tools - eLearning Technology , October 13, 2010. Creating tone of voice in eLearning. - Learning Visions , October 15, 2010.

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Informal Learning Social Networks Informal Learn.com 53