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Informal Learning For Beginners: Are You Ready To Engage Your Telecommuting Teams?

eLearning Industry

What is informal learning and how can it benefit your geographically dispersed staffers? This article covers the basics, benefits, and key characteristics. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Thoughts on informal learning

Sticky Learning

To continue to perform well requires continuing skills and knowledge growth, we are always beginners. The way we grow IS mostly through informal channels, whether we are 18 or 58. Perhaps the curse of knowledge is that as we grow older we only remember the formal learning of our younger years.

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Beware who's selling informal learning

Clive on Learning

There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that historically we have underplayed the importance of informal learning, whether that's experiential, on-demand or social. They cannot remember that once upon a time they too were beginners. We have forgotten what it's like to be a beginner.

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Beginner Instructional Designers – In Pursuit Of Awareness

Upside Learning

www.jarche.com – Harold Jarche’s blog is a great place to get introduced to ‘Informal Learning’. blog/ – Jane Hart provides news, resources, ideas and new thinking about social media for working and learning, from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT). www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/

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Thoughts on informal learning

Sticky Learning

To continue to perform well requires continuing skills and knowledge growth, we are always beginners. The way we grow IS mostly through informal channels, whether we are 18 or 58. Perhaps the curse of knowledge is that as we grow older we only remember the formal learning of our younger years.

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Thoughts on informal learning

Sticky Learning

To continue to perform well requires continuing skills and knowledge growth, we are always beginners. The way we grow IS mostly through informal channels, whether we are 18 or 58. Perhaps the curse of knowledge is that as we grow older we only remember the formal learning of our younger years.

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Informal Learning and Black Swans

Sticky Learning

In other words, 'predictable' learning needs lead to formal learning solutions - problem solved! Formal learning has it's place, definitely. This is where informal learning comes in. Let's try these descriptions of Informal Learning: Learning with no particular outcome in mind.