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Can Games Transform the World? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Can Games Transform the World? According to Koreen, In his writings on Play Theory, Lloyd Rieber presents compelling evidence of the validity of games as a learning strategy. Download the whitepaper ยป Blog this!

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eLearning as Part of an Informal Learning Strategy

Integrated Learnings

Much of my learning came from brainstorming with peers, participating in online forums , reading (articles, books, blogs, etc.), Do you have a similar story of unstructured, experiential, informal learning? In contrast, only 20% of organizationsโ€™ learning budgets go toward enhancing informal learning.

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The Importance of Informal Learning at the Workplace

Origin Learning

Earlier blog posts have stressed on how workplace learning has evolved over the years and L&D managers are re-inventing the wheel to meet the demands of the โ€˜millennial audienceโ€™. In this blog post, we examine โ€˜informal learningโ€™ and see how it can play a major role in modern workplace learning.

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5 Ways Informal Learning Gets Learners Engaged and Excited

Docebo

Informal learning encourages learning in the flow of work โ€“ here are 5 ways to help you make it happen. In fact, those formal learning situations are becoming less of a fixture in L&D as awareness grows around the need to foster and encourage more informal learning opportunities. .

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ELC 060: How to Practice Evidence-informed Learning Design

The eLearning Coach

In this episode, I speak with Mirjam Neelen about the conclusions that learning researchers agree on, how to identify learning myths and how to incorporate evidence-informed learning strategies into your work. Mirjam is a coauthor of Evidence-Informed Learning Design: Creating training to improve performance.

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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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Reality bites

E-Learning Provocateur

Friends of my blog will already know that my undergraduate degree was in science, and although I graduated a thousand years ago, it forever equipped me with a lens through which I see the world.

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