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Is Informal Learning The Same As Social Learning?

Upside Learning

Social Learning Social Learning is participating with others to make sense of new ideas. Marcia Conner, author of The […]. Social Learning Informal Learning' Let's start by looking at their definitions.

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eLearning Industry's Guest Author Article Showcase [January 2024]

eLearning Industry

Preventing training burnout, leveraging AI for informal learning, and handling large online classes are just a few of the topics covered in our top eLI guest articles. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The key to informal learning is autonomy

Jane Hart

Jay Cross, the author of the 2007 seminal book, Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance , recently wrote a blog post in which he explained that although there has been a lot of talk about “informal learning” in the last five years, there has been very little action.

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7 thoughts on informal learning

KnowledgeOne

“Any occasion is good for learning!” ” could be the motto of informal learning, this type of learning without structure or organization that we all do on a daily basis without realizing it and whose possibilities are attracting increasing interest, especially in the workplace. Concrete examples.

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Doctoring the Informal Learning Environment

E-Learning Provocateur

She authors the blog Wishful thinking in medical education , which she uses to advance thinking about the training of student doctors. 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).

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DevLearn 2014: The dead of the corporate LMS and WYSIWYG authoring?

Challenge to Learn

One concurrent session about “Trends Leading to the End of the LMS” and one morning buzz session called “The Death of WYSIWYG Authoring?” And I believe that the LMS and WYSIWYG authoring will be among the victims. Adaptive learning. Learning is moving to the business : Informal learning, working smarter.

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Unbooks, Informal Learning, and Collaboration: The Age of Questions

ID Reflections

In an earlier post, The Meaning is the Message , I quoted from Stephen Downes' presentation: Knowledge has many authors , knowledge has many facets, it looks different to each different person, and it changes moment to moment. Unbooks make room for readers as well as authors. Unbooks put the author back in control.