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Open Learning Network vs Informal Learning Environment

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In the comments section of my previous post, Mike Caulfield kindly pointed me to the article Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network by Jonathan Mott. Mott’s blueprint is the Open Learning Network (OLN). Mine is the Informal Learning Environment (ILE). It formalises the informal. We can have both.&#.

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Doctoring the Informal Learning Environment

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Recently Anne Marie blogged Location and Learning (which I have reproduced here) and she asked me whether or not I consider her central idea an example of an Informal Learning Environment (ILE). The network that they are tapping into is the same one that all the staff in the hospital use to keep themselves up to date.

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Social networking is king

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Another principle that resonated with me was, in my own words: Social networking is king. Social networking has been around since the dawn of time. Simple: it’s a social network for people who are interested in scrapbooking and crafts. Tags: conference social networking AMP e-learning enterprise 2.0

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I don’t know

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But I’d like to reiterate that in a typical organisational setting, having all the information we need at our fingertips is a myth. Moreover, as Schema Theory maintains, an efficient and effective worker quickly retrieves the knowledge they need on a daily basis from the network they’ve embedded in their longterm memory.

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Transformers

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Posting the video clip to the enterprise social network seeds a discussion, by which anyone and everyone can share their experiences and insights, and thus learn from one another. The consumption of content on the social network, for example, may be difficult to track and report. We’re all in this together.

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The foundations of innovation in L&D

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Another false idol to fall is the myth that all the information we need is at our fingertips. An enterprise social network covers the “in-betweens”, principally by empowering everyone to ask their own questions to the crowd, and to keep abreast of emergent knowledge in the moment. Clearly, not all our needs are generic.

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Connectivism and the modern learner

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Siemens describes connectivism as “the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organisation theories&#. If we view chaos through the lens of Network Theory , we see the universe as a massive, complex network. Meaning already exists in the world… but can you see it?

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