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Formalising the informal?

From the Coleface

There’s a popular myth in the learning industry that 80% of the learning that happens in organisations is informal whilst 20% is derived from formal learning interventions e.g. face to face courses and e-learning. How could you actually measure how much informal learning is actually happening with any degree of scientific robustness?

Informal 100
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Chat GPT kills formal learning?

From the Coleface

Learning experience: formal learning is more that information, it should be engaging, varied and memorable. There is a risk that ChatGPT users input confidential/commercial information that they should n’t and this gets leaked through incorporation into the language model. Where does formal learning win?

Long Tail 130
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Five valuable benefits that the disaggregation of training risks destroying

From the Coleface

The opportunity to meet counterparts from other offices (and sometimes countries) in an informal setting – spontaneous networking without the cringe factor. A way to informally benchmark yourself against your peers and learn from their experiences.

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Is the affective context model of memory true?

From the Coleface

Whilst emotion is powerful for memory, there are other types of meaningful that make a difference eg linkages and connections, information being presented in a coherent way, mnemonics, the generation effect (eg DeWinstanley and Bjork [link] ).

Games 130
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Curation 101

From the Coleface

Essentially the aim is the same: get content that is useful, informative and fun in a format that it is easy for your target audience to find (search for) and apply. The basic hurdle for digital content is to be at least two out of useful, informative and fun. Also the quality or cost of information may not be acceptable.

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Is Enterprise search the answer to L&D’s interruption problem?

From the Coleface

How easy is it to find the information that you need for your job within your organisation? Probably a lot more difficult and frustrating than using a search engine to find public information…. What information, navigation and learning needs do these evidence? Compliance? And what was the password?…).

Search 140
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Subject matter experts – time for a re-brand?

From the Coleface

The internet has democratised knowledge and information to the extent that it is almost a given. Key value that the best SMEs add is how to apply that information and put it into a real-life context that learners can relate to (which to most people is not implicit in the term SME).

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