Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 16, 2010
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.
Clark Quinn
MAY 24, 2012
Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about informal learning, which ends up sounding like formal learning, and this can be confusing. There are really two viewpoints: that of the learning and development (L&D) professional, and that of the performer. The performer is focused on the tasks they need to perform.
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Clark Quinn
JUNE 5, 2012
In my post on reconciling informal and informal, I suggested that there are practical things L&D groups can do about informal learning. work social media into formal learning to make it easier to facilitate the segue into the workplace. share best practices. provide performance support for social media.
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 18, 2010
Yesterday, I talked about how social added to formal learning. Today I want to extend social learning learning to informal learning. When I talked about the value social adds to formal, it was about processing the information in richer ways, to help facilitate learning. are our network.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 14, 2009
Overall, there seems to be no awareness of the whole thrust of social and informal learning. Ok, so Jay’s book on Informal Learning is relatively new, and the concrete steps may still be being sorted out, but there’s a lot there. But these aren’t the biggest misses, to me.
Clark Quinn
JANUARY 11, 2022
To be fair, suggesting that L&D take responsibility for informal learning could be considered a stretch. My argument is simply that informal learning has practices and policies that can optimize outcomes, and that it’s a necessary component of success going forward. (I We should anyway!
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 21, 2009
social, informal, [enter your own bizbuzz phrase here] strategy. Some are instituted from different organizations, like under the CIO, and others have emerged from the learning function with the organization. The interesting thing is how the actions are blurring the notion that there are tight boundaries between formal and informal.
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