ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Creativity is a conversation--a tension--between individuals working on individual problems, and the professional communities they belong to. In a flattened learning system, there are fewer experts and more fellow learners on paths that may cross.

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Learning 2.0 Blended Learning Social Networks Gartner 132

Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

Try Before You Buy Tools Used Better Conferences - Response Needed Roles in CoP's The science of learning Learning 2.0 My Top 25 blogs for 2008 Blogging as Reflective Practice The Elearning Apprentice Part 2: A four-level framework for evaluating social network ROI.

Social Networks 139

Social Networks Blended Learning Authoring Tools Corporate eLearning 139

Obsidian Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2015

One of the best ways is to encourage interaction and informal learning among learners after completing WBT. Here are a few ideas: Use wikis, blogs, or even Twitter (perhaps with a unique hashtag) to build virtual communities of practice. For more ideas, see our article on informal learning in the workplace.

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Budget Authoring Tools Compliance Training Blended Learning 40

Jane Hart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Recognises that formal learning accounts for small % of how people learn in the organisation. Training often outsourced, on-demand access to self-paced learning, f2f networking important, facilitated collaborative/peer-learning available in the workflow. Informal learning. Social learning.

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Blended Learning Social Business Performance Support 198

Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

Charles Jennings made 70:20:10 a guiding philosophy of learning during his eight-year tenure as Chief Learning Officer at Reuters, the world’s largest information company. He is the world authority on 70:20:10 and these posts draw heavily on his work.). Post 2 The 70 percent: learning from experience.

Social Networks 83

Social Networks Social Network Communities of Practice Lesson 83

Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The feeling is that we are now on the verge of a new phase in the development of e-Learning. Virtual worlds, Informal learning, learning on the job, lifelong learning, collaborative learning, adaptive learning, blended learning, game based learning, skill based learning, communities of practice, et cetera.

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Blended Learning CD-ROM Easygenerator Authoring Tools 139

Mindflash

MAY 23, 2012

In a series of blog posts, I plan to provide further detail on each of the five critical skills that co-author Mitchell Levy and I believe learning professionals can put to use right away. Learning pros should never wait for a class to be perfect. Social/Informal Learning. collaboration, and performance support.

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Enterprise 2.0 Authoring Tools Instructional Design Skills 91

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.

Predictions 198

Predictions Diversity Training Compliance Training Authoring Tools 198

Learnnovators

JULY 6, 2015

I spent the greater part of the weekend mulling over the practice of working out loud, what makes some folks adopt the habit with ease while others struggle, and what could be some of the possible enabling factors that support working out loud. A community grows through conversation, collaboration, and showcasing of work in progress.

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eLearning Strategy Strategy Blended Learning Community 133

Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2010

Ten years ago, the common wisdom was that you could not establish a community of practice. The authorities were wrong on both counts. The authorities were wrong on both counts. Thousands of corporations have established thriving communities of practice that advance both their members and their shared body of knowledge.

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Communities of Practice Confidentiality Community Job 41

Limestone Learning

MARCH 30, 2020

The coronavirus may have robbed us of face-to-face interaction, but it can’t rob us of learning. There are tons of free webinars this month to keep you connected with your communities of practice. author, and President of Nelson Motivation, Inc., We hope they help you keep calm and carry on. Join Bob Nelson, Ph.D.,

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Free Brandon Hall Blended Learning Virtual Classroom 86

Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

Communities of practice have been established for more 12 years, with well-defined policies and systems. On-demand approaches To support on-demand learning Shell has its own wiki, with 70,000 users and more than 40,000 articles. So it’s called informal learning or on-the-job learning.

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Wiki Blended Learning Diversity Training Compliance Training 71

Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2013

If you are immersed in technology mediated communication, there are no apparent barriers to membership of your community of practice. It is your virtual community. It is tribal because the global online community exhibits many of the characteristics of traditional, territorial tribal practice.

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Global Digital Social Networks Social Media 91

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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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

You don’t need a formal degree to learn the skills required to build good elearning courses. There are many books and resources available that will provide the same information you’d get in any formal program. Combine that with the easy authoring tools and rich informal learning networks available today and you’re all set.

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Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Design 84

Mindflash

DECEMBER 30, 2013

While a free-for-all learning strategy might not be the most effective way to run a training department, Stephanie Ivec argues for keeping informal learning, informal , “Trying to turn informal learning into formal learning diminishes [its] unique benefits” writes Ivec.

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Informal Learning Yammer Informal eLearning Strategy 82

Learning Visions

JANUARY 3, 2008

It is extremely flexible and really embraces a lot of the concepts around real learning versus regurgitation of facts. I focused on Communities of Practice and learned quite a bit. Much of what I learn feeds right into these changes we see in the industry with the focus on informal learning and social media.

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eLearning Learning Posts

JULY 8, 2009

New online book on mobile learning -available for free download - Ignatia Webs , June 12, 2009. Informal learning patterns - Informal Learning , June 26, 2009. Where Organizations Go Wrong With e-Learning - MinuteBio , June 20, 2009. Time Spent - The Learning Circuits Blog , June 1, 2009.

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Compliance Training Google Wave Social Networks eLearning Strategy 46

eLearning Learning Posts

JANUARY 3, 2011

Four roles for social media in workplace learning - Clive on Learning , September 28, 2010. Performance Learning Productivity , May 28, 2010. Course Content Authoring Tools – Open Source (Free) - eLearning 24-7 , June 7, 2010. Taxonomy of Learning Theories - E-Learning Provocateur , January 12, 2010.

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Blended Learning Instructional Design Corporate eLearning eLearning Strategy 105

Living in Learning

AUGUST 23, 2009

The type of learning that is rapidly trending upward is informal learning. My choice of new tactics is applying the concept of a learning continuum that takes a holistic approach to the whole learning pie, and at the same time, embracing the potential of five different moments of learning need.

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Performance Support Design Support Instructional Design 113

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

We thought we could take the instructors out of the learning process and let workers gobble up self-paced (i.e., “don’t expect help from us&# ) lessons on their own. PowerPoint became the authoring language of choice. Concepts at work in pull learning include: Learning on demand, immediate reinforcement.

Compliance Training 38

Compliance Training Corporate eLearning eLearning Simulations 38

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

We thought we could take the instructors out of the learning process and let workers gobble up self-paced (i.e., “don’t expect help from us&# ) lessons on their own. PowerPoint became the authoring language of choice. Concepts at work in pull learning include: Learning on demand, immediate reinforcement.

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Compliance Training Corporate eLearning eLearning Simulations 37

eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Hot Topic #2 - Social Media , Social Networks , Social Learning , and Informal Learning. Social media, social networks, communities for learning both formal and informal is bigger than I think we can even imagine at this point. What is Informal Learning , February 19, 2009. Community (1202).

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Social Networks Google Wave LearnTrends Virtual Classroom 49

The Learning Circuits

MAY 26, 2006

I saw this discussion as an opportunity to review some of our classic pedagogic strategies and made the following reply, highlighting some points about formal and informal learning as well as CoPs: I see this exercise as a first phase of creative thinking, and this for three reasons.

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Strategy Social Networks Case Study Social Network 40

Mark Oehlert

AUGUST 31, 2007

While at the Adaptive Path conference, UX Week 2007 , I had seen this session and thought it was quite good; " UX Design as Communities of Practice." The author, a PhD student named Jyri Engestrom , is interested "in the relationship between technical innovation and organizational transformation.

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 32

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Communities of practice. A Community of Practice (CoP) is a social network of people who identify with one another professionally (e.g. Chefs and workers in the kitchen who aspire to be chefs are a community of practice. Newcomers learn the ropes from working alongside veterans. About the author.

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Diversity Training Social Networks Communities of Practice Mentoring 51

Big Dog, Little Dog

NOVEMBER 8, 2004

Tools for prescribing learning, managing development pathways and goals and handling e-commerce and financial transactions related to learning. The utilities and capabilities for supporting informal learning, mentoring, communities of practice and other "non-training" interventions.

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CD-ROM Virtual Classroom Search IBM 32

eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

All you ever wanted to know about informal learning - Informal Learning , April 27, 2010 YouTube of Jay’s UMBC ISD Now! It captures my current thinking about informal learning. …Tags: Tags: Informal Learnin. On the future of Digital Games Based Learning in Corporate E-learning.

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Google Buzz iPad Blended Learning Google 85

Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I love not only having great communities of practice with people that are in the industry, but also obviously, helping that next generation of learning designer with the right mindset and skills to succeed. If you had to boil down one key lesson from your experience in the learning industry, what would it be?

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Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I love not only having great communities of practice with people that are in the industry, but also obviously, helping that next generation of learning designer with the right mindset and skills to succeed. If you had to boil down one key lesson from your experience in the learning industry, what would it be?

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Digital Metrics Performance Support Performance 52

eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The blank page and writer’s block are familar companions to all authors. What are Learning Analytics? elearnspace , August 25, 2010 Last week, I announced an upcoming conference in Banff on Learning Analytics ( call for papers can be found here). The first is that you are only as good as your last post. Unported License.

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Augmented Reality Blended Learning Social Learning Social 83

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Through their presentations at conferences, Allison Rossett, Elliott Masie, Gloria Gery, and scores of other awesome teachers have shaped the thinking of the greater learning and development community of practice. Response 31 high-quality participants with buying authority. over the years is wearing thin.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

It can manifest as a blended learning campaign or a simple course. Or it could be a complex five year plan with evaluation milestones, multiple 'sorties', a content strategy, community of practice, set of job aids, marketing collateral, partnership agreements, policy re-write, cultural adjustment planning (long game marketing), etc.

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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. May 5, 2010.

eLearning Strategy 89

eLearning Strategy Corporate eLearning Authoring Tools eLearning 89

E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 7, 2010

There’s method in my madness… The myth of rapid authoring. The proliferation of so-called rapid authoring tools over the last few years has coincided with an explosion in the number of online courses developed in-house. Enter the Informal Learning Environment (ILE). Unlike a PLE, an ILE is communal.

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Learning Objects Authoring Tools Online Course 252

Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2010

Stand-up instruction is giving way to peer learning. Usually this is the people with the authority and wherewithal to sign the checks. Here are some things one might add to any training director’s job description: • Supporting the informal learning process. Supplementing self-directed learning with mentors and experts.

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Metrics Business Director Knowledge Worker 52

Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2009

Several purported authorities on calculating ROI suggest taking intangibles into account by putting them on a list but refusing to estimate their value. At CapGemini, six months after the informal launch, the 900 communities of practice were using 500 forums, 500 wikis and more than 250 expertise- or project-focused blogs.

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