ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

Mostly, business as usual at work and crisis situations at home took my time and attention. Working from home offers me plenty of solitude but not the intellectual stimulation and those over-the-shoulder conversations so crucial to serendipity, ambient awareness, and informal learning.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

People learn more in an environment that encourages conversation, so make sure you’re fostering an environment where people talk to each other. A Community of Practice (CoP) is a social network of people who identify with one another professionally (e.g. An effective community of practice is like a beehive.

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Obsidian Learning

MARCH 31, 2015

This model consists of four elements: A ttention: getting learners’ attention (obviously), but also sparking curiosity and building engagement. The model assumes that if learners have a personal reason for learning the material, they will be motivated to succeed and will be satisfied with their newly acquired skills. References.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2012

Facilitating collaborative online learning More modern, informal learning approaches put the trainer as the ‘guide on the side’ rather than the ‘sage on the stage’. These days a great deal of that guiding is going to be online, using web sites, forums, wikis, blogs and all sorts of communities of practice.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 1, 2010

Strategy as Process, Not Product: The Learning Value Chain What did I learn: The importance of having a strategy in place before jumping into the tactics, and the need for a process before a product development work can start. What is Informal Learning? Similarly, learning shoveled at learners will be ineffective.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Social knowledge management consultant Harold Jarche suggests there are multiple layers, from collaborating in work teams, to collective learning in communities of practice, to cooperative learning with peers and friends in our networks (Figure 1). Learning leaders should facilitate this learning to optimize outcomes.

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EI Design

AUGUST 19, 2020

You can use it to meet the entire spectrum of your training needs, including Formal training, Instant/Just-in-time learning aids, Informal learning, Self-Directed Learning, as well as Social or Collaborative Learning. eLearning Trends in 2020 – Mobile Apps for Learning.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 21, 2012

This is a world of clear expectations and roles, organizational-driven development, structural talent management, competency mapping, Subject Matter Expert-focused (authoritative knowledge), planned innovation (business cases, calculated risks), planned careers, and large structured curricula. Informal learning thrives here.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Branon Learning Management System App Stores Bob Little Apps, Not Courses Inge de Waard Augmented reality moves towards augmented learning with easy tools: Wikitude , Layar , ARToolKit. Situated learning (learning within context in a community of practice) grows thanks to augmented mobile reality.

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The Learning Circuits

MARCH 3, 2008

One was a Chief Learning Officer panel discussion where it seemed that supporting informal learning or communities of practice was not something they were considering. Similarly, does the instructor have a responsibility to help students make sense of or deal with content he or she did not teach the students?

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eLearning Learning Posts

JULY 8, 2009

Top 100 Learning Game Resources - Upside Learning Blog , June 24, 2009. The Various Roles of Instructional Design (work in progress) - Jonathan’s ID , June 5, 2009. Business of Learning - eLearning Technology , June 15, 2009. SharePoint vs. Social Media - Engaged Learning , June 22, 2009.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 14, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, June 14, 2007 Defining an e-Learning Strategy: Planning the Kickoff In the spirit of building a Community of Practice -- sharing ideas and processes -- I thought Id try and share what I can of a current project.

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eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Key Social Learning Roles - Daretoshare , April 4, 2010 Premise : Learning communities or networks thrive because its members possess certain skills and capabilities. Community members should be able to perform one or more of the five roles described in the table that follows.

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eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Assign people into roles. Aiding in such things as increasing positive learner attitudes and providing a social role model for interactions. Creating a Personal Learning Network by Corinne Weisgerber. Related posts: PLE / Personal Learning Environment: What’s yours like? Technical Issues. Inject fun into the event.

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eLearning Learning Posts

JUNE 9, 2010

Workscape evolution - Informal Learning , May 7, 2010 This morning Jane Hart posted this 5-stage model of the evolution of workplace learning in an organization. I’ve re-worked the model to show: my domain is the workscape (the merger of work and learning, the learning ecosystem). Not even close.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 7, 2010

Now that I have your attention, please bear with me. If we dispense with online courses in favour of PDFs, how can we incorporate interactivity into the learning experience? Enter the Informal Learning Environment (ILE). Unlike a PLE, an ILE is communal. Rockin’ role. Informalise learning.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 16, 2013

The start-up stiffed me but the paper morphed into the Informal Learning book. I’ll be leading a series of master classes on informal learning and working smarter in Europe. Informal Learning – the other 80%. Because organizations are oblivious to informal learning, they fail to invest in it.

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