Living in Learning

JUNE 7, 2019

By now content curation is a well-known activity that is credited for saving time in the search, retrieval and distribution of bulk knowledge/information.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

There’s been such a division between formal and informal; the fight for resources, mindspace, and the ability for people to get their mind around making informal concrete. We’re developed in communities of practice, with our learning distributed across time and across resources.

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Matrix

AUGUST 5, 2021

The most obvious benefit of blended learning is that it allows learners to actively engage with content in various ways. To counteract that, it’s important to build communities of practice. Read more: The differences between social professional networks and communities of practice. Encourage informal learning.

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Instancy

MARCH 9, 2023

Learners can design one or more learning communities with a built-in site editor. Each learning community can include social components such as discussion forums, expert and peer listings, learning activity feeds, and more. Members can edit and manage their profiles, including job roles , skills, education, and work history.

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Matrix

AUGUST 7, 2018

Without ruling out traditional L&D practices, informal learning should find its way into today’s workplace. Read more: The truth about informal learning: it happens all the time, anywhere. 8 practices to facilitate informal learning. First of all, it is very cost effective. Employee set-up CoPs. All in all.

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Web Courseworks

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

MedBiquitous is an international health organization and ANSI-accredited developer of information technology standards for healthcare education and quality improvement and a true community of practice fr innovative technologists in health education. The post The End of the PDF Certificate appeared first on Web Courseworks.

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Web Courseworks

JULY 16, 2019

If you are a professional instructional designer or online course developer, you probably belong to the community of practice called the eLearning Guild. They have their regular speaker experts and their annual conferences, and they have their industry vendors who help support the community. Get Discovered.

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 24, 2009

While the site shows 4,000 members, I would guess that truly active membership -- lots of posting, interaction, some argument -- is in the range of 50-100.

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Web Courseworks

AUGUST 24, 2017

National associations or “communities of practice” have been in the business of content curation for many years: publishing journals, books containing the community’s body of knowledge, and face to face educational sessions. I call this: making the informal digital learning nuggets formal.

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Jane Hart

APRIL 24, 2012

Furthermore, PKM is as much a life skill as a work skill – and actually one that needs to be acquired in schools, colleges and universities – to prepare students not just for the workplace but to help them make sense of all their online activities. The PKM framework is based on eight years of practical research and use.

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Jane Hart

JANUARY 27, 2012

These “programmes” will use a very informal, social, collaborative approach: there will be no formal classes and no monitoring/management of your learning in a LMS. How to create and sustain a community of practice. Guidance on how to set up and maintain a Community of Practice.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

In the context of this post, PLN stands for Personal Learning Network , and CoP stands for Communities of Practice. PLNs have been described as informal networks of people one specifically interacts with within their personal learning environments. The domain needs to be shared, and it needs to be formalised. Unported License.

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Web Courseworks

MAY 18, 2016

In the late 1960s professional organizations began actively to address the growing disconnect between advances in knowledge and the practitioners who were no longer involved in institutional learning. Knox structures his book as a melding of theory and practice. Active Learning. What type of information does Knox have in mind?

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Obsidian Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

When you’re designing learning, don’t overlook the importance of informal learning. This is learning that takes place outside of the classroom or the eLearning activity. In fact, we typically learn more from informal learning than from formal learning experiences. Build a body of best practices for use in operational activities.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2014

Key performance indicators for social and informal learning identify knowledge hubs and lead to better results. Where the changes show up is in the data points companies analyze in conjunction with social and informal learning. KPIs for social and informal learning should examine: • How many people use the system.

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learnWorlds

JANUARY 12, 2024

As we delve into each practice, consider them as the keys to unleashing the full potential of your virtual community , ensuring that it becomes a social network where members not only learn but actively contribute, connect, and find value in being part of a collective journey. Setting the Community Guardians ?️

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Learning with e's

AUGUST 22, 2014

In this post, I extend this idea into the work Lave did with Etienne Wenger, which has become known as Communities of Practice. The work of Lave and Wenger advances this concept, turning its focus to the people who make up the learning communities we are all a part of.

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 22, 2019

So much of what we learn comes from informal interactions with the people we know, whether we’re interacting in person or through social media. Here are some ways we can do that: Create communities of practice that either meet in person or virtually. Find ways to actively involve the learner.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2011

An instructional designer by profession who started her career anlayzing learner needs, creating micro-design documents, writing story-boards and discussing the nitty-gritty of course navigation with visual designers, I have long been interested in the power of social, collaborative and informal learning. Rangaswami , Venkatesh Rao , et al.

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Avilar

MAY 18, 2022

Remote and hybrid work does not lend itself to creating informal connections and relationships with others at work. Harvard Business Review identified these area as needing the most attention: Communication. Create group activities that spark creativity. Actively share and model the company’s core values and norms.

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Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

On the Real Workplace Learning blog, Jane Bozarth and I regularly share examples of workplace learning as it most often happens: through social informal and often serendipitous happenings. But too often there is talk of the need for “community management&#. . But we still talk about ‘management’ of communities!

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I prefer to see MOOCs through the lens of informal learning which values the learning over its bureaucracy. For example, it’s important that your intranet is mobile optimised, so when someone is away from their desk, they can quickly look up the information they need and put it into action. Community of Practice Case Study.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 5, 2012

training) and informal learning experiences (e.g., communities of practice). Managed by learning professionals who facilitate both formal and informal learning experiences. Hart writes further that learning professionals should, therefore, take on a new role, that of “Enterprise Learning Community Managers.”

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Leaders communicate that learning can happen in many different ways: face-to-face and online instruction, push training and pull learning, on-the-job activities, and social interaction. They believe that this potential is in everyone and can be unleashed by actively giving people the opportunity to acquire new knowledge and skills.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 4, 2012

So one approach that I have been promoting is, instead of thinking of Formal and Informal Leaning as polar opposites, rather to think in terms of a Social Workplace Learning Continuum (as shown diagrammatically in the image on the right).

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 6, 2012

We can also have a richer suite of coaching and mentoring happening through Communities of Practice, where anyone can be a coach or mentor, and be developed in those roles, too. Learner activity can be tracked, as well, leaving traces for later review. We can look up information as well, if our portals are well-designed.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

Dirty Words: Training, Learner, eLearning, Informal, Social, School, Learning What is the role of L&D specialists in working smarter? Companies are outsourcing their course development so internal L&D can focus on communicating and connecting. Becoming CURATORS of information – tagging, editing. Clark says yes.

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Matrix

MARCH 22, 2018

But it must also support all the informal learning that happens organically in the workplace. And this is where Communities of Practice — or CoPs — can jump in to save the day. It is more than a set of relationships; it has an identity as a community and thus shaped the identities of ts members. A CoP is not a team.

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TalentLMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

No information on what would happen next? Most firms believe that the employee onboarding are the activities taking place on the first day of work. And would it be possible to cram all company information, its culture, business processes and unique individuals into the new hire, in one day? Do you remember your first job?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Leaders communicate that learning can happen in many different ways: face-to-face and online instruction, push training and pull learning, on-the-job activities, and social interaction. They believe that this potential is in everyone and can be unleashed by actively giving people the opportunity to acquire new knowledge and skills.

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Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Social media practices can facilitate new forms of collaborative knowledge construction. It encourages civic engagement in broader communities of practice. And social media can encourage an environment of trust, where individuals share information about themselves and their interests.

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

To embrace informal learning we must empower learners to play a central and proactive part in the process. Similarly, formal learning can help shape and direct informal learning. If you throw people into a social environment it’s unlikely they’ll click into a thriving and supportive community of practice of their own accord.

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Web Courseworks

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As you may or may not already know, I like to refer to associations as our real “communities of practice.” This gathering is for creative thinkers who want to discover and reflect on the next big idea for their community of practice. Hope to see you there!

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Web Courseworks

DECEMBER 2, 2015

The ASAE Tech conference is designed for CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, CXOs, technology professionals, and marketing communications strategists. Those engaged in applying educational technology for communities of practice are also targeted. Here is a quick preview of what you might miss educationally if you do not attend.

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Web Courseworks

DECEMBER 2, 2015

The ASAE Tech conference is designed for CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, CXOs, technology professionals, and marketing communications strategists. Those engaged in applying educational technology for communities of practice are also targeted. Here is a quick preview of what you might miss educationally if you do not attend.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Will we still continue to speak about learning as an activity to be undertaken in order to be effective at work? How do we help organizations see that social and informal learning is not a new and fancy way to learn but an essential requirement in a complex, rapidly changing, and uber connected world? Only adults doing their work.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

One theory that has emerged from the social constructivist school, Activity Theory , suggests that all learning is shaped and motivated by social influences (Engeström et al , 1999). The manipulation of tools, a very specific human activity, carries with them an accumulation of cultural and social knowledge. Engeström, Y.,

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