Obsidian Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

When you’re designing learning, don’t overlook the importance of informal learning. This is learning that takes place outside of the classroom or the eLearning activity. In fact, we typically learn more from informal learning than from formal learning experiences. Build a Learning Culture.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2011

An instructional designer by profession who started her career anlayzing learner needs, creating micro-design documents, writing story-boards and discussing the nitty-gritty of course navigation with visual designers, I have long been interested in the power of social, collaborative and informal learning.

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The Learning Circuits

AUGUST 15, 2012

After nearly a decade and 500+ posts, we are shuttering the Learning Circuits Blog and posting exclusively on the ASTD Learning Technologies Blog. Well, ASTD’s website redesign in April enabled us to publish blogs through our own Communities of Practice—rather than externally house them.

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Blogging ASTD Communities of Practice Expertise 48

The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 5, 2012

Several excellent blog posts have recently come to my attention that, when combined, provide a how-to for creating a learning culture in organizations. One of these posts appears in Jane Hart’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. training) and informal learning experiences (e.g.,

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Social Networks Culture Organization Create 262

Tony Karrer

JULY 18, 2006

Great post by Harold Jarche - Informal Learning and Performance Technology responding to my post - Informal Learning - Let's Get Real. Performance Interventions ** Learning Interventions Instructional Interventions (e.g., Performance Interventions ** Learning Interventions Instructional Interventions (e.g.,

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 22, 2019

Sometimes we as learning professionals don’t need to have “the answer” for the learner. Sometimes we instead help learners connect with people who can support their learning experience. Here are some ways we can do that: Create communities of practice that either meet in person or virtually.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 2, 2015

Several excellent blog posts have recently come to my attention that, when combined, provide a how-to for creating a learning culture in organizations. One of these posts appears in Jane Hart ’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. training) and informal learning experiences (e.g.,

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Social Networks Culture Organization Create 100

Matrix

MARCH 22, 2018

A sound L&D strategy can mean many things: from face-to-face formal courses to mentoring relationships to full-featured learning management systems and all the technology that helps people share ideas and learn. But it must also support all the informal learning that happens organically in the workplace. Stay tuned!

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

These are my notes from the Learn Trends: Networked and Social Learning online mini-conference. This isn’t my usual comprehensive live blogging, just snippets of things that caught my interest. Measurement & ROI for Social & Network Learning. Compare to other alternatives (formal/informal learning).

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Social Networks Social Network ROI Network 193

E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 6, 2015

When we worry about the status of their credentials or lose sleep over their completion rates, we’re perpetuating an out-dated paradigm of education based on formal learning. I prefer to see MOOCs through the lens of informal learning which values the learning over its bureaucracy. The 3 mindsets of m-learning.

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Learning can only happen when a child is interested. To embrace informal learning we must empower learners to play a central and proactive part in the process. Similarly, formal learning can help shape and direct informal learning. SUPPORT AN ENGAGED, GROWTH MINDSET. CREATE REAL VALUE ON SOCIAL PLATFORMS.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

These are my live blogged notes from today’s eLearning Guild Webinars with members of the Internet Time Alliance (ITA): Harold Jarche, Charles Jennings, Clark Quinn, Jane Hart, Jay Cross Exploring Social Learning and Smarter Working The questions for the session were sourced from the crowd. There are no such things as learning metrics.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 20, 2010

Image via Wikipedia "Collaboration is a process through which people who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for the solution that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible." ~ Anecdote And informal learning is hinged on collaboration.

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Instructional Design Pattern Wikipedia Collaboration 137

Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

These are my notes from the Learn Trends: Networked and Social Learning online mini-conference. This isn’t my usual comprehensive live blogging, just snippets of things that caught my interest. community of practice. Posted in Informal Learning, Learning Communities. inspiration.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

When I'm not talking about learning, I'm reading about it, researching it, thinking about it, and writing about it. Today was particularly interesting because I had a conversation on this blog with ePortfolio Keith (Keith Brennan aka @wiltwhatman), who was commenting on my Three Things post. 1977) Social learning theory.

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Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Teaching and learning practices benefit from the collective knowledge that social technology provides. Social media practices can facilitate new forms of collaborative knowledge construction. It encourages civic engagement in broader communities of practice.

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Social Networks Summary Emergent Classroom 66

Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 3, 2011

That means more than 16,000 videos were contributed by members of the Angry Birds Community of Practice. The clear distinction between the Angry Birds community and the average workplace community-of-practice is obvious: the AB folks are making money for producing content.

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Social Learning Community Social Social Media 167

Instilled

JULY 2, 2019

The modern workforce is connected through an ecosystem comprised of business tools and learning technologies — like learning experience systems — and even personal devices. This blog post explores ways that L&D professionals can take advantage of having hyper-connected learners across the enterprise.

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Learning Technologies Technology Learner Communities of Practice 40

The Learning Circuits

MAY 2, 2006

I'm currently preparing a project for European funding aiming at the development of communities of practice as a structured way of fostering and deepening transfer and sharing of skills, knowledge and competency. Communities of practice are part of the response to the need to encourage informal learning and perpetuate its results.

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Informal Learning Culture Informal Simulations 40

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2010

In preparation for an event, he makes a blog post to organize his thoughts. Even without that, however, there are big offerings on the table for informal learning, via access to resources and networks. Social Formal Learning. My Internet Time Alliance colleague Harold Jarche is a clever guy.

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Brain Performance Support Calendar Mobile 174

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

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 10, 2010

Informal Case Studies. Informal Non-formal video. Informal Discussion group/ forum. Informal SharePoint. Informal RSS Feeds. Informal Communities of practice. Informal Community e-news. Informal Mentoring.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 4, 2012

Although, modern office spaces do provide open meeting areas which support informal gatherings, remember too that we also learn with others virtually – even when we are sitting on our own – so we also need to provide similar virtual informal (learning) spaces.

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Performance Support Social Support eLearning Guild 210

Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers Web 2.0 Applications in Learning Rethinking Learning Styles Understanding E-Learning 2.0

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Social Networks Blended Learning Authoring Tools PLE 139

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

After my last blog post , a commenter asked a pertinent question: Many organizations/companies have multiple intranets, wiki sites, and so forth, often making it difficult for employees to know where to go when they want an answer or more information.

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Portal Wiki Communities of Practice Site 150

Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Asynchronous e-learning is high. Communities of practice and wikis are highest 2.0. Blogs increased 20.7%. Communities of Practice increased 12.3%. Good question in the chat from Cathy Moore: Are blogs being used top-down or created by learners? 70% plan to apply more e-learning 2.0 approaches.

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Learning 2.0 Research Wiki Simulations 170

ID Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

I was introduced to the work, ideas and blogs of most of the speakers via Twitter. What I have learned in the last 3 years have been completely via social media. Social, informal learning. I am a part of a huge global network of educators and learned, a virtual community of practice.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2007

For some months now I've been carrying Jay Cross's new book Informal Learning around in my bag to read on train journeys. What's more, I believe that blended, formal programmes can provide an important bridge to informal learning.

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Informal Learning Blended Learning Informal Social Networks 40

Litmos

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

My editor here on the SAP Litmos blog, Samantha Lang , commented that she had been hearing quite a bit about “group versus individual learning” the previous week at a learning conference, and wondered whether I had anything to say on the subject. How social learning works. When have I not ? People will engage.

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Diversity Training SAP Cognitive Social Learning 76

Jay Cross

MAY 1, 2012

Six years ago few people believed that informal learning made much of a difference. Today’s common wisdom is that most workplace learning is experiential, unplanned, social, and informal. Informal learning tops many training department agendas. The information explosion has hit.

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Social Networks MySpace Social Network Ratio 62

Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 24, 2018

Usage of learning portals for corporate training initiatives is gaining momentum. In this article, I share 4 examples of how you can use them for both formal and informal learning to increase employee engagement. Learning Portals For Corporate Training: What Are Their Key Characteristics? Recommended learning paths.

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Learning Portal Portal Diversity Training Examples 45

Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2013

Learning professionals have no real difficulty in supporting the formal element of their work, i.e. providing access to courses. You could then be supported in meeting those goals through YouTube-style video channels, communities of practice, shared content, webinars run using Saba Meetings, and so on.

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Performance Support Saba Support Blended Learning 95

Tony Karrer

JUNE 16, 2009

eLearning Learning Hot List June 1, 2009 to June 12, 2009 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. World Part 2 - Social Enterprise Blog , June 6, 2009 Should you Care about Google Wave?

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Social Networks Social Network Analysis Social Network Network 100

ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

I have come back to blogging after a hiatus of almost 5 months. Working from home offers me plenty of solitude but not the intellectual stimulation and those over-the-shoulder conversations so crucial to serendipity, ambient awareness, and informal learning.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 1, 2010

That pondering took me back to all the blog posts by various bloggers that have most influenced my thought process and my posts in 2009. The posts that came to mind spontaneously and with surprising clarity ( in no particular order and not necessarily e-learning related) : 1. What is Informal Learning?

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

That likely will make the numbers around a term like mobile learning a bit problematic. If someone can get to your online reference (stored on a wiki) through their smart phone's browser, is that mobile learning? Big winners: Communities of Practice, Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts. However, that's still impressive.

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Methods Wiki Trends eLearningGuild 140

Learning with e's

APRIL 5, 2010

Wikis, blogs, podcasts, social bookmarking, RSS feeds, microblogs, social networking. and to learn. Formal learning is not the only type of learning possible, you see. You are learning something new now by reading this blog post, and I learnt something new while I was writing it. we are learning informally.

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