Instilled

JULY 2, 2019

Capture Tacit Knowledge and Build Communities of Practice. Hyper-connected learners aren’t just connected to learning technology. With easy access to learning platforms and other technologies that support collaboration , L&D teams can foster social learning and encourage the creation and growth of communities of practice.

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Learnnovators

JULY 6, 2015

The more I thought about it, the more it seemed to me that it is one of the fundamental blocks of building a community of practice. A community grows around a domain where practitioners share their insights, knowledge and doubts, the work processes. This is where a community manager can be indispensable.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 29, 2011

Rob has achieved success by integrating formal and informal learning activities in pursuit of clear strategic business objectives. Each new employee is supported through the programme by a team of mentors. These communicate regularly using conference calls and get together face-to-face every two years.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of great learning architects in action. Rob has achieved success by integrating formal and informal learning activities in pursuit of clear strategic business objectives.

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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. Here, LMS functionality is provided within the context of your principal day-to-day tool for learning, knowledge-sharing and collaboration, not the other way round. However, there is a key difference.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2012

By combining the power of the human brain with technology in a way that facilitates work, collaboration and communication, leaders can turn learning into multifaceted performance support. Lots of the opportunities to improve come through the network, through the people we learn with and from.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Jay Cross - father of the Informal Learning Flow has been doing some great writing recently that look at the future of corporate training. You have to support electronic offerings with mentors, guides, help desks, FAQs, reinforcement, and organizational support. More on this below. But first some context.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 29, 2015

Here’s a summary of the Working Smarter Fieldbook : While learning is ascendant, training is in decline, for workers are embracing self-service learning; they learn in the context of work, not at some training class divorced from work. Finally, here’s a summary of Informal Learning.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 8, 2013

Despite recent and continued emphasis on social media to support learning, the most significant types of informal learning aren’t technology-based. This is because “shorter modules allow for more focused and concentrated learning chunks and greater engagement,” several CLOs said.

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Marcia Conner

JANUARY 26, 2012

It involves memory, synapses, endorphins, and encoding, and, more often than not, those accidental and serendipitous moments we call informal learning. Most real learning—the kind that sticks to the walls of the brain—is informal. Informal learning is what goes on around our formal learning process.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Collaboration gets things done and is the most powerful learning tool in the CLO’s playbook. Twenty years ago, colleagues at far-flung enterprises communicated by phone, mail and fax. The social learning revolution has only just begun. Every participant in the career advisor program has at least one mentor.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Of the "online services offered", roughly 80% of organisations are using formal materials and assessments, 60% performance support including job aids and online books, and 40% collaboration between learners, coaching and mentoring, communities of practice and tutor support (all of which are expected to grow significantly in the next three years).

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

And someone is always responsible for supporting your development – with coaching from your line manager and mentoring. Communities of practice have been established for more 12 years, with well-defined policies and systems. Backing this up is a knowledge management strategy based on the simple requirement to “ask, learn, share.”

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

You have to support electronic offerings with mentors, guides, help desks, FAQs, reinforcement, and organizational support. Concepts at work in pull learning include: Learning on demand, immediate reinforcement. Learning while working, not separate from working. Peer learning, communities of practice, collaboration.

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Jay Cross

MAY 30, 2009

That first round of e-learning largely failed for precisely this reason. You can’t remove the humans from learning. Companies should embrace network-supported informal learning because it works better, not because it reduces labor costs. New communities have different requirements than old.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

You have to support electronic offerings with mentors, guides, help desks, FAQs, reinforcement, and organizational support. Concepts at work in pull learning include: Learning on demand, immediate reinforcement. Learning while working, not separate from working. Peer learning, communities of practice, collaboration.

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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. How to Use This Free Screencasting Tool for E-Learning - Rapid eLearning Blog , August 25, 2009. Informal learning - what is it?

Blended Learning 73

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Communities of practice. A Community of Practice (CoP) is a social network of people who identify with one another professionally (e.g. Chefs and workers in the kitchen who aspire to be chefs are a community of practice. Newcomers learn the ropes from working alongside veterans.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

NOVEMBER 8, 2004

One of the first definitions for e-learning is ASTD's , who define it as covering a wide set of applications and processes, such as Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. Simulations, document repositories and publishing programs.

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Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I love not only having great communities of practice with people that are in the industry, but also obviously, helping that next generation of learning designer with the right mindset and skills to succeed. If you had to boil down one key lesson from your experience in the learning industry, what would it be?

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Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I love not only having great communities of practice with people that are in the industry, but also obviously, helping that next generation of learning designer with the right mindset and skills to succeed. If you had to boil down one key lesson from your experience in the learning industry, what would it be?

Digital 52

Digital Metrics Performance Support Performance 52

eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The Human Factor: Social Media as Mentoring Platforms by Mary Arnold - Learning Solutions Magazine , August 17, 2010 Have you ever thought of social learning platforms as knowledge management tools – ways to store an organization’s knowledge. Post from: The eLearning Coach How To Integrate Multimedia For Effective Learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Through their presentations at conferences, Allison Rossett, Elliott Masie, Gloria Gery, and scores of other awesome teachers have shaped the thinking of the greater learning and development community of practice. Provides an opportunity to interact with others and create collaborative work. Response 22. Response 23 1.

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Jay Cross

MAY 26, 2015

In the same vein, I talk about Working Smarter instead of informal learning, social learning, and so forth. Some people denigrate informal learning but nobody’s against Working Smarter. Your organization already has a workscape where people are learning to work smarter. The learning conservationist toolkit.

Metrics 36

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Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2010

Here are some things one might add to any training director’s job description: • Supporting the informal learning process. Supplementing self-directed learning with mentors and experts. Using smart tech to make it easier for workers to collaborate and network. Explicitly teaching workers how to learn.

Business 52

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 12, 2010

Cross is a champion of informal learning, Web 2.0, He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix three decades ago. Quality in eLearning (Bogota), LearnX (Melbourne), and Learning Technology (London).

Informal Learning 73

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Jay Cross

APRIL 16, 2013

The start-up stiffed me but the paper morphed into the Informal Learning book. I’ll be leading a series of master classes on informal learning and working smarter in Europe. Informal Learning – the other 80%. Because organizations are oblivious to informal learning, they fail to invest in it.

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Learnnovators

JULY 29, 2015

This allows them to exercise the value that emerges from collaborating with other humans on open-ended, creative endeavors. The key question we (as L&D/HR) need to think of is how are we going to support workplace learning to build such skills in the workforce?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 1, 2009

An active community of practice is a different animal from a bottom-up knowledge management network or a corporate news channel. New communities have different requirements than old. Furthermore, people throughout the organization will need to share the burden of helping everyone learn. We’re all in this together.

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