Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 19, 2010

In his 2001 book Kitchen Confidential , Anthony Bourdain describes how he became a professional chef and how he continues to support the community of professional chefs. In his book, Bourdain describes how he started out as a dishwasher in a restaurant on Cape Cod. Have you assessed who might form natural communities?

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The Learning Circuits

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

As Ryann mentioned in a previous post, I’m the Community of Practice Manager for Learning Technologies at ASTD. In this role, I engage with the community and help build ASTD’s portfolio of content—from T+D articles to books to educational programs to conferences and beyond.

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

I have listed down a few books that have shaped my thinking over the last one year. 6 Knowledge Management Cultivating Communities of Practice Etienne Wegner, et al. 10 Design/Communication/Business/Presentation The Back of the Napkin Dan Roam. 11 Communication/Presentation/Business Made to Stick Dan and Chip Heath.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 16, 2019

This is a compilation and update of my book list and book review posts. Design For How People Le arn by Julie Dirksen is one of my favorite books in the field. The book includes practical tips on working with SMEs and avoiding interactivity and multimedia for the sake of being flashy. Instructional Design.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2022

In her recent book, Dare to Un-lead, Céline asks, “Can there be liberty, equality, and fraternity at work?” As Head of Quality Innovation & Engagement at Sanofi Pasteur Céline helped to create the ‘Break Dengue’ global community to fight dengue fever. Céline understands the power of community.

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

#SoMe for Trainers: Beating the Forgetting Curve This is the 9th stop of the Blog Book Tour for Jane Bozarth's new book, S ocial Media for Trainers. This book addresses the sceptics, the doubting and the uninitiated as well as those experienced in using the tools. This book is a case in a point.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 17, 2017

If your New Year’s Resolution is to read more books, you’ve found the right post. This is a compilation and update of my previous book list and review posts. Design For How People Learn by Julie Dirksen is one of my favorite books in the field. Read my full review about this practical book.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 31, 2018

Communities of Practice served as a model for this thinking. For an internal self-help solution, Allison Anderson developed a community of practice with events, portal, and a networking platform. In the book, they tell the stories in their own words.

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Learningtogo

DECEMBER 6, 2022

If you want to learn more about this exciting frontier, join the Human Capital Institute (HCI) at their Augmented Cognition conference in Greece later this year or discuss the issue here in the Science of Learning Community of Practice. Book Your BrainyBot™ Discovery Session with Margie. The Internet of Everything Is Us.

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Instancy

MARCH 9, 2023

Creating Communities of Practice Instancy’s social learning tools help learners to create communities of practice based on their interests. Each learning community may have its own unique site containing a content library, discussion forums, wiki knowledge base, polls, and more.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 8, 2024

I was asked to write a book in 2018 addressing the persistent training myths hindering our industry. This needs to happen within communities of practice, within the organization, and with the field as a whole. Of course, they’re not directly applicable, so we’ll need some inference.

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Web Courseworks

AUGUST 24, 2017

National associations or “communities of practice” have been in the business of content curation for many years: publishing journals, books containing the community’s body of knowledge, and face to face educational sessions. Yep, museums hire curators to assemble artifacts to display and tell a story.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 8, 2024

I was asked to write a book in 2018 addressing the persistent training myths hindering our industry. This needs to happen within communities of practice, within the organization, and with the field as a whole. Of course, they’re not directly applicable, so we’ll need some inference.

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Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 11, 2011

Granted there have been several books written about social learning (small S, small L) and sometimes a writer will go as far as to capitalize the term every now and then, but has anyone really claimed it to be a proper noun? Informal learning includes certain social learning tools like wikis, communities of practice, expert directories, etc.,

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

JANUARY 15, 2018

Both Online Both Typical interventions Scaffolding Communities of practice Social network inventory – looking for existing communities Introduce an Enterprise social network Stimulate use of social media Working Outloud Groupwork Peerreview Adding interaction to e-learning Result Collective learning Online networks Learning from peers.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I started working within the framework of knowledge management and communities of practice. And communities are hijacked by the marketeers for client communities. Communities of practice as still a very powerful environment to stimulate professional innovation at an individual and collective level.

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Web Courseworks

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I’ve interviewed them and reviewed their books for this blog. Jeff’s book Leading the Learning Revolution is a reflective masterpiece that touches those of us who have been in educational technology since the pre-dot-com days. Not only that: it provides a pathway to creating successful adult learning businesses.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Nancy has been my go to person for all things Communities and Networks and worked with me to create Communities and Networks Connection. So naturally when Nancy and John (with Etienne Wenger) put out the book Digital Habitats; Stewarding Technology for Communities I was very excited. This is a really awesome book.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2011

showed the direction to the future of work All of this led to my growing interest in communities, communities of practices and the art of community managment, further fueled by Jono Bacon's The Art of Community. Folks like Andrew McAfee , Dion Hinchcliffe , Sameer Patel , Bill Ives , Riitta Raesmaa , J.P.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Two books I have recently read influence my thoughts in this post. These are The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here by Dr. Lynda Gratton (a book review coming up soon), and The Second Machine Age by Andrew Mcafee and Erik Brynjolfsson. Most of us do a retrospection of the year gone by, and a future-spection of the year to come.

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Web Courseworks

MAY 18, 2016

In his recent book Improving Professional Learning: Twelve Strategies to Enhance Performance , Knox offers a distillation of what he has learned over the course of his long and distinguished career. As could probably be deduced from its subtitle, Improving Professional Learning is first and foremost an immediately practical book.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

I have been busy writing a new book, and the last month has involved a lot of research and writing, completing, editing and polishing of my manuscript for final submission later this month. It's a book I was commissioned to write for Kogan Page, and will be aimed at the learning and development (L and D) sector. Unported License.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

One of the items that led to lower trade publication subscription rates is that a lot of information that use to be found only in the trade publication can now be found all over the Internet with no cost to the person who needs to learn the information or become part of a community of practice.

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Web Courseworks

APRIL 14, 2016

Since the publication of his book, Leading the Learning Revolution , Jeff Cobb and partner Celisa Steele have built a great business around their Leading Learning brand. Tagoras’s LTD conference will provide a unique experience for attendees.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The other day I caught up with Catherine Lombardozzi who is the principle behind the firm called Learning4Learning Professionals and author of a brand new book. And she has recently penned a new book. Kapp: You’ve got a great new book out, can you tell me why you decided to write this book? Or from Amazon.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

What are the ingredients of building a Community of Practice? Groups of individuals in same team, other teams, other companies even – they come together to improve their practice. Managers often don’t like words like ‘social’ and ‘collaboration’ – but ‘communities of practice’ seems to resonate.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 26, 2012

Not surprisingly, I believe simulation games are the best form of deep practice to help cement skills. I believe so strongly I wrote a book about it ;). And the cross-pollination: I believe that we’ll be passing on responsibility for defining curricular paths to competency in areas to the associated communities of practice.

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Learningtogo

DECEMBER 2, 2016

In her new book, Show Your Work , Dr. Jane Bozarth urges learning professionals to share their work in unfinished form, so that you can get feedback before investing too much time in producing a “finished” work. That’s the power of giving your brain a problem to solve and getting out of the way. A Mood Board is an Example of Working Out Loud.

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Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I’ve since started writing chapter summaries (here is the last article ) so people can “preview” some of the great books out there and hopefully end up reading them! For the full text, here’s a Springer Link , which is free with subscription, or you can purchase the chapter or book.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2023

The idea of a group of people coming together to form systematic peer-to-peer support is an old one, but our contemporary understanding of the technique was outlined by Napoleon Hill in his seminal book, “Think and Grow Rich.”

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

JANUARY 24, 2019

Before I became connected and before I used the Internet for collaboration I read books for pleasure, I never read a newspaper (sometimes watched news on TV), and I rarely read ‘business’ or non-fiction books (beyond an occasional biography). But I’d not considered the Internet for online learning.

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Hurix Digital

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Before the invention of the desktop, typesetting was mainly outsourced to a select few who had the technology available to bring this craft tradition into practice, such as book typesetters. This is done with the guidance of communities of practice and the traditions that typesetting represents in the modern world.

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Nick Leffler

JANUARY 27, 2016

One of the most recent examples I can think of is the ports on the Mac Book, simplified down to one. Communities of Practice Need Some Practice. The changes they make to their products which are truly innovative and new are simple and relatively small. You might also enjoy: Idea Management and Design – You Mean PKM?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

This informal learning is facilitated by coaching, mentoring, communities-of-practice, experiments, action-learning and any of a myriad of other methods including the various forms of social media. In this kind of culture, formal classroom training is probably the least effective. In some cases, a few minutes will do.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

Social physics may prove incredibly powerful for both classroom and virtual channels, and potentially even for communities of practice, digital coaching, mentorship initiatives, longer-term/cross-channel leadership development programs and more. What Is Social Physics?

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 20, 2010

The book is a synthesis of years of collective experience, know-how, knowledge and deep passion for improving and enabling human performance. As an L&D professional, for me the book is a practical guide to the implementation of a more efficacious "workscape" and even tells me what my elevator pitch should be.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 29, 2013

In terms of supporting the moocers in the organisation, I envisage L&D pro’s undertaking activities such as facilitating communities of practice, setting up buddy programs, and organising external meetups. This will involve an analysis of the curriculum pre-study, and an evaluation of the learning experience post-study.

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