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Are You Giving Informal Learning Short Shrift?

Mindflash

.” It may sound like the slogan of some bizarre independence movement, but the idea, as advocated on the blog, is actually a common-sense approach to ensuring your training practice lines up with what scientists know about how people actually learn. Are you short changing informal learning? ” Mixing and Matching.

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An amazing camera & ideal Christmas gift

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

If you’re shopping for a Christmas gift in the $400 range, check out this camera, the Canon S90. I’ve used lots of digital pocket cameras. What I really love is the camera’s ability to take bright photos in low-light conditions. (I All in all, this is a simply amazing camera. Its LCD is 3″ wide.

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Is informal training always to be preferred due to a human-centric approach? 

Creativ Technologies

It’s because of the natural way of learning when you pick up skills yourself. There are, however, many advantages and disadvantages of such a training process: No tests: The foremost benefit of informal learning is that adults don’t like giving exams. This is where the problem with informal learning lies.

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Giving your learners a nudge in the right direction

Logicearth

The smiling/frowning speed cameras are also great examples, in that they use social norms (‘we’ like you or do not like you as a result of your speed) to moderate behaviour (highly effectively, it turns out – these cameras are better than actual cameras). And now the learning bit.

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5 Reasons to Use Gamification in E-Learning

Origin Learning

From a very tender age, we are exposed to games: Chess, Monopoly, Scotland Yard… And that is for a reason, because games make learning not seem like ‘learning’. As we grow up, such informal learning is replaced with a more structured, more formal way of instruction – the effectiveness of which has been questioned time and again.

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This Week in mLearning Podcast – Episode 7 – Project Tin Can

mLearning Revolution

e- Facebook releases new Camera app for iPhone and iPod touch. 8- A new approach: learning experiences are not initiated in a LMS. How can this bring into play informal learning experiences? RJ Jacquez wrote about this here. 2- Project Tin Can: Introducing Aaron Silvers and Jason Haag.

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Giving your learners a nudge in the right direction

Logicearth

The smiling/frowning speed cameras are also great examples, in that they use social norms (‘we’ like you or do not like you as a result of your speed) to moderate behaviour (highly effectively, it turns out – these cameras are better than actual cameras). And now the learning bit.

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