ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

Mostly, business as usual at work and crisis situations at home took my time and attention. 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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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

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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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Today, as I sat reading ( once again ) Informal Learning by Jay Cross in a distant hotel room in Westbrook, Connecticut, the point on Organizational Network Analysis hit me. Using Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) to pinpoint the vulnerability of the informal organization, one of the key findings was that: ".the

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 17, 2009

Top Posts and other Items The ‘Least Assistance’ Principle eLearning is not the answer Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace Here’s How I Built That PowerPoint E-Learning Template Informal learning - what is it? What Goes in the LMS? Browse eLearning Content

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ID Reflections

APRIL 22, 2010

What does Agile have to do with Informal Learning and Instructional Design? Agile means the willingness to be in a perpetual state of Beta, accepting that there is no closure, can be no closure with information, requirements, needs, business opportunities changing at lightning speed. It's all about the mindset.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Or will work itself subsume learning enabled by a transformed L&D / facilitators / coaches / mentors and the "right" organizational culture? How do we help organizations see that social and informal learning is not a new and fancy way to learn but an essential requirement in a complex, rapidly changing, and uber connected world?

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2009

During the year, I’ve had fantastic conversations through LearnTrends around SharePoint , Examples and Tour of Different Kinds of eLearning , Social Learning , and the Business of Learning. Each of these allowed me to fast forward my learning and share knowledge effectively. eLearning 2.0 eLearning 2.0

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Kapp Notes

JULY 8, 2010

There has been a lot of talk about formal vs. informal learning in the educational blogosphere and when it comes right down to it, formal learning is the most effective. The processes have been formalized, in knowledge work, many of the processes are formalized. Here's why. Or discussed it in a chat room?

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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. A constant state of connection has grown increasingly common, especially for knowledge workers. Capture tacit and institutional knowledge.

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Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

2) Do you think that learning needs to be designed to solve every business or job problem? 2) Do you think that learning needs to be designed to solve every business or job problem? When in fact, by doing this, they are simply formalizing informal learning. It is still a formal learning intervention.

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 19, 2015

She blogs at www.sahanac.com on topics related to the future of work, the shifting digital trends, and their deep impact on how we will work, learn and live in the future. Her writings and articles have been published in papers like The Business Standard, Inside Learning Technologies Magazine, U.K., and others.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

According to Chris Tratar, senior director of product marketing at Saba, early adopters tend to have heavy focuses on knowledge worker industries, which include consulting, tech companies and any organization with a robust research and design process. There, pull learning can facilitate the need for collaboration and sharing.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2013

While we in the learning organization may find ourselves asked to build programs and curricula to develop deep skills in various topics, we know there are already plenty of experts floating around with far more skills than we already have. What is your role in this new world of expert-to-expert learning?

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Jay Cross

MAY 2, 2015

Learn for Yourself challenges readers to consider where they’ve been in their careers and where they’re headed. My career in the learning business is at a turning point. My history by type of learning is below. Discovered that learning was a field. informal learning. DIY learning.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Karl: The biggest problem is that in the learning field we sometimes get seduced by the technology and forget the underlying learning need and, even more importantly, the underlying business need. Learning initiatives are not altruistic for companies. The impact of informal learning is huge.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Learning content will be transformed for easier consumption. Success metrics for learning will be based on content access, views, involvement and downloads. Learning leaders will be more focused on relevancy of information. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0

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Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The 9:00 am to 5:00 pm notion of work is all but vanishing, at least for the knowledge workers. We live in an age of information abundance but lacking in insight and wisdom; it is almost impossible to make sense of it as an individual. Disruptive business models are upending traditional org structures.

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Learnnovators

JULY 20, 2015

Join us on this exciting journey as we engage with thought leaders and learning innovators to see what the future of our industry looks like. Some run their businesses as lifestyle businesses, while others aim to grow the business to the point where it can be acquired by others. THE INTERVIEW: 1. Learnnovators: Hi Bob.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Instead, we will call this "self-directed learning" and will do our best to support the workforce to learn it on their own with minimal guidance and support. But the reality was more than that as I explored in posts like Business of Learning and Models for Learning Questions. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0

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ID Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Organizational silos form because we don’t know what the teams across the hallway are working on leave alone being aware of what other business units and divisions are doing. Thus not only do we lose out on diverse inputs and knowledge, we also proverbially reinvent the wheel many times over and feed into systemic inefficiency.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 16, 2009

Well not quite, but it is pretty dang close to the definition of Management Consulting in Wikipedia: Management consulting refers to both the industry of, and the practice of, helping organizations improve their performance, primarily through the analysis of existing business problems and development of plans for improvement.

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eLearning Learning Posts

JULY 14, 2009

LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009. New skills for learning professionals - Informal Learning , July 1, 2009. E-Learning Authoring Tools Guide 2009 Released: Some Meditations on the Nature of Information - The E-Learning Curve , July 1, 2009. Hot Topics.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 25, 2010

David has been a major influence on my views of knowledge management. The Gurteen Knowledge-Letter is a free monthly e-mail based KM newsletter for Knowledge Workers. It is sponsored by the Knowledge Management Forum of the Henley Business School, Oxfordshire, England.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. They learn about twice as much from those conversations compared to structured courses and programs. It’s about making the business better. Serving enterprise customers. Silos crumble.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 13, 2015

As a consequence, the role of learning professionals has morphed from being mere providers of instructional support to facilitators who help workers manage their own learning. This, clubbed with the need for creative thinking to solve our business problems of today, is making us re-think the role of learning at workplaces.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 8, 2009

Business Casual , May 16, 2009 Audio in eLearning: Cultural Differences? Browse eLearning Content

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Social Networks Wiki Corporate eLearning Case Study 100

Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2010

On the way home from the Swiss eLearning Conference, my mind was racing after three days of talking with interesting people and spreading the informal learning gospel. Not quite micro-learning, but a step in that direction. Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable.

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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2009

This expansion does not mean that our formal training efforts are of no value, they are – and they always will be part of most learning solutions. However, if our contribution to the business mission is to create readiness and sustainability in the workforce, our scope and our skill sets need to expand. What could go wrong?

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Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2013

The Facebook clan (a sub-set of the global digital tribe) attracts in excess of one billion tribal members, many of whom are busy telling their stories, celebrating success, sharing images and videos, showing their allegiance to their idols (liking a pop star page or a movie premier), playing social games and engaging in frivolous behaviour.

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eLearning Learning Posts

APRIL 6, 2010

The plan is to provide a centralized location for examples of e-learning courses and details about the instructional design process used in creating them. Social Media for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , March 30, 2010 Lot s of information on different social media tools that knowledge workers should know about.

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Vignettes Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2015

What pushes the popularity of micro, small bites learning or learning by snippets and drips? There Is Strong Evidence of a Convergence of Forces Velocity of business is rapid - Organizations need to train people quickly to push products, support customers, comply with laws and others.

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Ideas Micro-Learning eLearning Strategy xapi 40

Clive on Learning

JULY 8, 2008

In the Learning Circuits Blog , Tony Karrer poses a whole series of questions related to the role of learning and development professionals in promoting informal learning / social learning / learning 2.0 within organisations: Q: Must learning professionals be literate in these things?

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Big Question Social Networks Wiki Social Network 40

Jay Cross

JUNE 2, 2013

Two days of the trip were paid work: One day I keynoted the Learning Innovations and Quality Conference and participated in the launch of the International Council for Open Research and Education ( ICORE ) in Rome. On another day I led a masterclass in informal learning and 702010 for a high-tech company and its customers in Utrecht.

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Communities of Practice Maslow Community Delicious 40

Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 27, 2008

This is a group that learns from nano-nuggets. The magic of Sun’s approach is that it accelerates informal learning. Performance is what matters, not how you learned to perform. Throughout the CLO Symposium, people grappled with ways to explain the value of learning to business leaders. Check this out.).

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 23, 2009

Learning is not shifting into the work context – it is catching up. We are behind the flow of business, and many of us do design and develop solutions for the bigger slice of the learning opportunity pie. If knowledge workers are not in training, they must be at work. What is the level of business urgency?

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Top 100 Tools for Learning: The Final List , Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day , November 16, 2009. Learning for the 21st Century - Informal Learning , December 17, 2008. LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009. Business Casual , December 14, 2008.

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Blended Learning Social Networks Compliance Training Google Wave 73

eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 4, 2009

The Business Case for Measurement of Learning. Your Social Learning System As A Profit Center. Better Than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning With Power Point. LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009 How to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work.

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