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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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. How can the chef help the dessert chef advance to sous-chef? Ten years ago, the common wisdom was that you could not establish a community of practice.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2023

There are numerous ways to use internal resources to support learning, including coaching, mentoring, apprenticing, job shadowing and engaging in trial or stretch projects. Essentially, they help employees make lasting relationships in an inclusive environment.

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TalentLMS

DECEMBER 7, 2015

In this article, I’ll shed light on the situated cognition theory, from its core principles to tips that will help you use it in your next eLearning course. Cognitive Apprenticeships and communities of practice also go hand-in-hand with situated cognition. 4 Situated Cognition Best Practices. Expert support.

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I’ve been working with a number of organisations recently as they’ve been making the move “into social”, and one thing was clear, that “helping” their people with this didn’t require old-school training. Of course, helping them how to use the technology could be partly approached in this way – but even that wasn’t quite the same.

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Jane Hart

MARCH 11, 2013

In the first post I explained that “packaging learning” involves organizing and wrapping up everything an individual needs to learn in a neat parcel, delivering it to them on a plate, and making sure they do it, whilst “scaffolding” is about supporting learning in many other less top-down organized ways.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 3, 2011

I’m interested in something more than Angry Birds’ gaming dynamics, though; I’m interested in the Angry Birds community. That means more than 16,000 videos were contributed by members of the Angry Birds Community of Practice. Unfortunately, this sounds too good to be true, and it is. Probably not.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

DECEMBER 9, 2018

My thinking was sharpened, but I also took away really practical lessons for the things I am working on (like the idea to embed peergradio in Moodle for instance.) Communities of practice are powerful but not appealing A powerful things happened in the very last session at 17.00 and new relationships. We decided to exchange.

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 31, 2012

I am often asked how to support social collaboration in the workplace. 1 – moving from a focus on organising and managing training (which includes e-learning and blended learning) FOR others, to helping individuals and teams address their OWN performance problems. In other words, it means.

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Learning Pool

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Launching AI Conversations, a generative AI offering that allows employees to practice challenging workplace conversations, in October 2023, we’re proud to have placed in two categories at the Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Awards. It’s a breakthrough way for companies in any industry to ensure productive workplace conversations.

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Docebo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

“Data from the Improvement areas that are identified on our clients’ scorecards has increased rapidly with our network growth, and, along with feedback from customers, has given us a clear picture of the most important education and guidance needed to help companies improve,” Emily Rakowski, CMO of EcoVadis. “We

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

But this has bugged me, so I naturally tried to make a diagram that helps me think about it. Less intently, it may be a ‘show your work’ type of thing, where the organizational culture is supporting sharing, but it’s also an expectation. So here’s a stab an unpacking collaboration and cooperation.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 8, 2012

Given that the goal of instructional designers and training developers is to improve employee performance, it’s surprising that many continue to create blended learning programs with little or no reliance on performance support tools or systems. Build performance support into every blended learning effort.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 4, 2012

But in order to support the full SWL Continuum, there are 5 points to take on board. The term “course” is clearly inappropriate to describe an initiative that involves supporting informal learning, e.g. helping teams to establish Communities of Practice for knowledge sharing and continuous learning and performance improvement.

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Instancy

MARCH 9, 2023

In this digital age, many social learning apps are available to help learners maximize their learning experience. This article will introduce one such platform, Instancy, and its features that help learners to make the most of their social learning experience. They can also create links to external resources.

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Matrix

AUGUST 5, 2021

Promote communities as a way to overcome the remote effect. To counteract that, it’s important to build communities of practice. Even if it takes effort and excellent organizational skills to set up communities of practice for geographically dispersed employees, the benefits are worth it. Closing thoughts.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 31, 2018

Communities of Practice served as a model for this thinking. The solution includes continuous assessment, mobile performance support, and coaching. A ‘yellow pages’ to find ‘in the moment’ help was also a part. A ‘yellow pages’ to find ‘in the moment’ help was also a part.

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Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

They’ll help each other out. Communities emerge. and then figuring out how to best support them.” Communities of practice will continue to grow as knowledge artisans need to integrate their work and learning in a trusted space. You know you are in a real community of practice when it changes your practice.

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Web Courseworks

JULY 16, 2019

If you are a professional instructional designer or online course developer, you probably belong to the community of practice called the eLearning Guild. They have their regular speaker experts and their annual conferences, and they have their industry vendors who help support the community.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I was having a discussion the other day with my ITA colleague Jay Cross, and the topic wandered over to how to use the social approaches we foster under the umbrella of the Coherent Organization to help organizations become one. And I went feral. Do we work top down, or bottom up? I’m suggesting that this is a path to get there.

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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. The challenge is supporting and encouraging learning as it occurs on a day-to-day basis, well beyond the formal curriculum. This is what they have always done and this is what others expect them to be doing.

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ID Reflections

JULY 20, 2011

Lurking and its role in communities has been on the forefront of my mind for the past few days. It has received a lot of attention in the past from the thought leaders in the realm of learning and the role of communities in personal as well as organizational learning. This is especially true of communities in enterprises.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 5, 2012

communities of practice). Helping workers learn continuously on the job. An integral part of everything that is done in the organization, supported by technology and social networks. Hart writes further that learning professionals should, therefore, take on a new role, that of “Enterprise Learning Community Managers.”

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Avilar

MAY 18, 2022

Model connecting socially with others in the digital working world – and support and reward employees who do the same. Find ways to connect new managers into your network of more seasoned managers, so they have a ready community of others facing the same remote work challenges and opportunities. Communities of practice.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

Using new social technologies to help people get on with their jobs. How do you use social learning to support formal learning? The future of the training department” (article by Harold and Jay) L&D people should be focused on removing barriers – helping people work smarter or better. Moderate social communities.

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Learnnovators

JULY 6, 2015

I spent the greater part of the weekend mulling over the practice of working out loud, what makes some folks adopt the habit with ease while others struggle, and what could be some of the possible enabling factors that support working out loud. A community grows through conversation, collaboration, and showcasing of work in progress.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2023

In the CIPD report , only 20 percent of respondents strongly agreed that they are prioritizing the skills needed to help their organizations in the future and this “lack of priority from the business” impacts the quality of all development opportunities.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

allisonanderson Learning Together: How Intel’s Learning Community of Practice Role Models “New” Learning with Allison Anderson 50+learning orgs at Intel – well over 650 people taking care of learning…Most people don’t have learning or training in their titles…hard to say exactly how many. My live blogged notes from CU Week.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

JUNE 3, 2010

Journal of Management Studies, 47(1), 85-108 The authors make a distinction between NoPs and CoPs; networks of practice and communities of practice. CoP or NoP doesn't matter, there are important insights into the management interventions to support NoPs (or CoPs I'd say.).

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 21, 2020

Heat-shock proteins : special proteins are released under threat to help protect other proteins. For each of these there are organizational corollaries that we can consider, and then we can look at how technology and learning & development can help. And that builds those bonds that will help an organization weather tough times.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

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? Will we still continue to speak about learning as an activity to be undertaken in order to be effective at work?

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

We can shed our obsession with isolated formal learning and embrace the real question: how can we best support organisations and individuals to develop a culture of continuous learning and high performance. The underlying aim is to help people develop in ways they need, when they need to, in the ways that are most effective to them.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 3, 2015

The design models in chapter 4 are probably familiar to many with experience in the field but very helpful to beginners who want to do more than just the same type of course and interaction for every situation. ” All of Allen’s books are focused on helping people design e-learning that is interactive, engaging, and useful.

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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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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 22, 2019

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. Sometimes we as learning professionals don’t need to have “the answer” for the learner.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 6, 2012

As you might expect, I mentioned that it’s a framework for thinking august supporting people at work, but it also occurred to me that there might be a reason folks have not addressed the 90, because, in the past, there might have been little that they could do. Together, we can be supporting the 90 in fairly rich ways.

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learnWorlds

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Instructor Interactions and Direct Communication. Built-in Community Inside Every School. How the Community Works in LearnWorlds. Manage and Control your Community. Where instructors such as you are nurturing a community and students learn through multi-layered networking and interactivity. An Ecology of Learning.

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