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How Experience API (xAPI) - Tin Can API Tracks Informal Learning

Designing Digitally

Organizations can break free of the restrictions that learning management systems dictate and release learners to experience learning beyond the classroom. Learning doesn’t need to take place solely in front of a computer screen and keyboard. The individual learner is also able to keep track of his own learning information.

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4 Ways to Support Informal Learning

gomo learning

Rather, we gain knowledge through a variety of informal means and methods—such as searching the web, asking a coworker for help, or watching online tutorials. And, because these informal learning experiences are already happening in your organization, it’s important to know how to recognize and foster them. Making time to learn.

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Closing the Learning-Acquisition Gap with Informal Learning

Learnkit

Wacky but completely true (there is a great article here if you are curious to learn more) – it also highlights well the connection between training and rewards. To get it out of their heads, we need to shift our approach by making traditional formal training more flexible by incorporating more informal learning.

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Why Informal Learning Demands Informal Assessments

Degreed

And most of that on-the-job learning happens outside of training classes, in the job-related information you consume and tasks you complete each day. That’s a huge amount of informal learning over the course of a career. Almost every day you are reading articles, watching videos, searching online to find an answer.

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Why Investing In Informal Learning Makes Sense: Featuring 6 Examples Or Approaches

Adobe Captivate

Informal learning is integral to the way we learn, but organizations have several associated concerns about its value and impact. In this article, I address them and—through 6 informal learning examples— I also show you how you can use informal learning effectively. Acquire further knowledge.

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How (and Why) You Should Promote Informal Learning with Trainees (and the Boss)

Mindflash

Do they learn more about their job from formal training (classroom, online, etc.) or do they learn more informally (from peers, managers, etc.)? You should find out, and here’s why: Informal learning accounts for over 75% of the learning taking place in organizations today. Reality Check.

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The ongoing work of learning standards

Litmos

The ability to track learning, critical to a Learning Management System (which really is a Course Management System), requires knowing who has done what, and how well. If we need to track compliance, we may need to know not only that the person completed, but the amount of time spent or the successful completion.