Rob Hubbard

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How to Harness Informal Learning

Rob Hubbard

Informal learning, like the scenario above, takes place constantly in most organisations. It is estimated that probably as much of 80% of learning within an organisation is informal, with formal training constituting the other 20%. What is informal learning? How can informal learning be harnessed?

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Power to the People – 5 Reasons to Embrace a Pull Learning Strategy

Rob Hubbard

This inspires confidence in learners and is very motivating; not only in terms of their learning itself but also in terms of how positively they view the organisation and their place in it as a whole. Information can be easily updated. A pull learning approach focuses much more on ‘performance’ than ‘training’.

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Coactivism – A Learning Model

Rob Hubbard

These questions measure only the effectiveness of the learner’s short-term memory; not whether they will retain the information or be able to put it into practice. We know from Ebbinghaus’ Forgetting Curve that we forget the majority of what we learn in a matter of days if we do nothing with that information.