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Impact of informal learning: output learning #LCBQ

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The question of the month #LCBQ is: How do you assess whether your informal learning, social learning, continuous learning and performance support initiatives have the desired impact or if they achieve the desired results? Therefore if we want to measure the impact of learning (formal or informal) we need to measure that impact.

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Google is failing us: how to manage the information overflow?

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We are all struggling with the ever-increasing amount of information that we need to manage. Steve Rosenbaum pointed out in his key note address at DevLearn that search engines like Google become less reliable and that we have to find other ways to manage the information overflow. I decided to test Google myself.

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How subject matter experts can create more effective learning

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Subject matter experts often start with what we call a “PowerPoint mindset”; they are focussed on transferring the information as if they are creating a PowerPoint presentation. In 1885 the psychologist Ebbinghaus discovered that you will forget most information you learned within a matter of hours. This is called the forgetting curve.

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A helicopter view on our changing learning landscape

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Move towards informal learning. All these theories are telling us that informal learning is more important than learning, and that performance or behavior is more important than learning. Interestingly enough you see all the trends moving away from the “formal” quadrant to informal, skills, support and bottom-up.

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Best practice instead of malpractice

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The way Easygenerator allows informal knowledge to be shared across organizations makes sure that internal best practice is captured and spread as effectively as possible. . Indeed, along with its content curation facilities, gathering best practices is one of Easygenerator’s top features when it comes to informal learning.

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Improve your lessons: 3 ways to make them more effective

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The brain will forget the majority of the information that it receives in order to prevent overload. Just plain repetition is one thing, but the retention will increase significantly if the brain has to process the information, if your students have to think on it. Image: By Educ320 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0. But you have.

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DevLearn follow up: Not only curation but also moderation and didactics

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There is now software available that gathers information (based on RSS feeds), republishes it and stores it.The great thing about it that if you find an expert on a certain field that does this, you can tap in to his selection of content. And it really is a valuable source of information for me. No, it can’t. Moderation.

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