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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning? Only recently has the training industry begun to tap into this realm of informal, social learning. I argued that they were both dead wrong. Properly d.

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Formal Training Vs. Informal Learning: Which Makes More Sense?

Mindflash

There’s been a great deal of discussion over the last few years related to informal learning. Today, just about any training magazine, website, or conference probably devotes significant time to talking about informal learning. It’s an excellent resource for learning about informal learning approaches.

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Awesome Quotes On The Evolving Nature Of Learning

Learnnovators

Acceptance to continuous learning. Organizations that have realized and accepted this have already started re-thinking and re-aligning their views in line with these shifts around organizational learning. “ If you are seeking strong retention and learning transfer, people need distributed learning and performance support.

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DevLearn - Google Wave - Organizational Learning - Best of eLearning Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Alternatives to PowerPoint in the classroom - Dont Waste Your Time , November 11, 2009. Put your learners on a diet - consider a pull-based learning approach - Free as in Freedom , November 6, 2009. The Modalities of Blended Learning - Element K Blog , November 8, 2009. Rypple - Informal Learning , November 8, 2009.

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Clive Shepherd – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

ABOUT CLIVE SHEPHERD (Founding Director – The More Than Blended Learning Company): Clive Shepherd is a consultant learning technologist. He is widely acknowledged as one of the UK’s foremost experts in workplace learning and development, with hundreds of published articles to his name.

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Jay Cross – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. Jay has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix. A champion of informal learning and systems thinking, Jay’s calling is to create happier, more productive workplaces.

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The Learning Curve and The Pivot Point

The Performance Improvement Blog

When Stephen Gill and I were researching and writing our latest book, Only Smart Companies Win, about what it means to create and work in a “Learning Culture”, we tried to imagine what it would mean to develop training programs in that culture. They go back to work as soon as the formal classroom or online program is finished.