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.

Social Learning 167

Social Learning Community Social Social Media 167

ID Reflections

JUNE 5, 2009

Informal learnign, on the other hand, is like a solo bicycle ride. Tags: corporate training communities of practice collaborative learning social learning informal learning. I can change my own direction, go where I want, stop when I want to and take a break. A great simile.

Informal Learning 100

Informal Learning Informal Communities of Practice Collaborative Learning 100

Clark Quinn

MAY 12, 2020

The domain’s likely built upon some predecessor concepts that may be familiar, but can a motivated and self-effective learner get this in a reasonable amount of time, or will they benefit from a learning experience? Until schools also develop effective communication and collaboration skills, L&D would be useful.

Communities of Practice 222

Communities of Practice Community Roles Alternatives 222

Matrix

AUGUST 5, 2021

The same goes for promoting blended learning in the organization – to executives and employees as well. Promote communities as a way to overcome the remote effect. A blended learning approach needs to have an online infrastructure. To counteract that, it’s important to build communities of practice.

Blended Learning 97

Blended Learning Blended Communities of Practice Community 97

Jay Cross

AUGUST 2, 2013

Your organization has decided to tilt in the direction of informal learning. Masterclass for L&D managers, instructional designers, and senior instructors on the concept and implementation of informal learning. Introduction to informal learning. So now what do you do? Push vs. pull. The spectrum.

Informal Learning 70

Informal Learning Informal SAP Internet 70

Instancy

MARCH 9, 2023

Flexible Social Learning Toolbox Instancy provides a flexible learning experience platform that enables learners to design their learning portals to meet their unique business needs. Learners can design one or more learning communities with a built-in site editor.

Social Learning 52

Social Learning Wiki Social Social Networks 52

Jay Cross

JUNE 13, 2012

Next month I’ll be offering an experiential workshop on Informal Learning through Jane Hart’s Social Learning Center. Form an on-going community of practice. By the close of the workshop, you will be able to… understand what informal learning is, how it works, why it’s important.

Informal Learning 66

Informal Learning Informal Communities of Practice Learning 66

Matrix

AUGUST 7, 2018

Without ruling out traditional L&D practices, informal learning should find its way into today’s workplace. Read more: The truth about informal learning: it happens all the time, anywhere. 8 practices to facilitate informal learning. First of all, it is very cost effective. All in all.

Informal Learning 48

Informal Learning Informal Wiki Cognitive 48

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?

Network 202

Network Diversity Training PKM Communities of Practice 202

The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 5, 2012

One of these posts appears in Jane Hart’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. In this post , she writes that workplace learning is: Structured learning experiences (e.g., training) and informal learning experiences (e.g., communities of practice). Helping workers learn continuously on the job.

Social Networks 262

Social Networks Culture Organization Create 262

CLO Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2014

Key performance indicators for social and informal learning identify knowledge hubs and lead to better results. Just as social learning and technology have modernized the way learning occurs in companies today, they also have made a mark on the key performance indicators learning leaders should capture and measure.

Informal Learning 64

Informal Learning Social Informal Brandon Hall 64

Obsidian Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

When you’re designing learning, don’t overlook the importance of informal learning. This is learning that takes place outside of the classroom or the eLearning activity. In fact, we typically learn more from informal learning than from formal learning experiences. Build a Learning Culture.

Informal Learning 40

Informal Learning Classes Informal Wiki 40

Web Courseworks

AUGUST 24, 2017

In the Learning & Development world there has been a lot of buzz recently around content curation and the skills associated with being a curator. Most of this activity has been the domain of the membership department and the delivery is almost always on the “informal learning” side of the continuum.

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Association eLearning Strategy Education Strategy 124

Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

Published in Chief Learning Officer, August 2009. Informal Learning 2.0. Some cutting-edge corporations are adopting a new bundle of practices — let’s call them informal learning 2.0 — in order to improve operating efficiency by: • Slashing time to performance. Increasing customer loyalty though learning.

Learning 2.0 75

Learning 2.0 Informal Learning Informal Cognitive 75

Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

Companies are outsourcing their course development so internal L&D can focus on communicating and connecting. Becoming CURATORS of information – tagging, editing. Moderate social communities. Creating “cultures of continuous learning” Will mobile fundamentally alter the way we learn? Clark says yes.

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eLearning Guild Social Learning Social Metrics 208

Tony Karrer

JULY 18, 2006

Great post by Harold Jarche - Informal Learning and Performance Technology responding to my post - Informal Learning - Let's Get Real. Performance Interventions ** Learning Interventions Instructional Interventions (e.g., Performance Interventions ** Learning Interventions Instructional Interventions (e.g.,

Informal Learning 100

Informal Learning Wiki KM Informal 100

Matrix

MARCH 22, 2018

A sound L&D strategy can mean many things: from face-to-face formal courses to mentoring relationships to full-featured learning management systems and all the technology that helps people share ideas and learn. But it must also support all the informal learning that happens organically in the workplace.

Companies 49

Companies Strategy Communities of Practice Community 49

Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

Compare to other alternatives (formal/informal learning). I actually record valuable informal conversations in the wiki, before the value of those just were lost over time.&#. Examples (from The Social Enterprise Blog ): Caterpillar 3000 communities of practice = $75 million saved as of 5 years ago. It is opaque.

Social Networks 193

Social Networks Social Network ROI Network 193

E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 6, 2015

When we worry about the status of their credentials or lose sleep over their completion rates, we’re perpetuating an out-dated paradigm of education based on formal learning. I prefer to see MOOCs through the lens of informal learning which values the learning over its bureaucracy. The 3 mindsets of m-learning.

Blended Learning 100

Blended Learning Scanning Social Networks Instructional Design 100

The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 2, 2015

One of these posts appears in Jane Hart ’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. In this post , she writes that workplace learning is: Structured learning experiences (e.g., training) and informal learning experiences (e.g., communities of practice). Helping workers learn continuously on the job.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Culture Organization Create 100

Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

The emergent nature of MOOCs can have interesting outcomes: They can enable the formation of Communities of Interests (CoIs), which can evolve into Communities of Practices (CoPs) if participants are keen on building the domain knowledge and practices. The desire to reach out with the intent to learn is a mindset.

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Diversity Training Blended Learning Skills Learner 154

The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

More effective, sustainable learning occurs in the normal course of doing the work. 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.

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Culture Coaching Trust Performance Support 229

Adobe Captivate

APRIL 22, 2019

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

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Voice Social Learning Blended Learning Social 53

Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

community of practice. Posted in Informal Learning, Learning Communities. Tags: Informal Learning Learning Communities learning learntrends. I wanted to actually participate in the chat and watch Twitter too, and I couldn’t juggle all of it at the same time.

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Network LearnTrends Metrics Movie 170

Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Learning can only happen when a child is interested. To embrace informal learning we must empower learners to play a central and proactive part in the process. Similarly, formal learning can help shape and direct informal learning. SUPPORT AN ENGAGED, GROWTH MINDSET. CREATE REAL VALUE ON SOCIAL PLATFORMS.

Blended Learning 100

Blended Learning Performance Support Social Networks Create 100

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.

Blended Learning 167

Blended Learning Social Networks Internet Informal Learning 167

Jay Cross

JULY 7, 2013

Communities of practice , a term coined by Institute for Research on Learning staff. It’s more about a community and joining a community. Newcomers learn as they become members of that team. Learning is a condition of continuing membership in that community. It’s always informal.

Communities of Practice 85

Communities of Practice Community Learning Research 85

Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Informal Learning begins with these words: “THIS IS A BOOK about knowledge workers, twenty-first-century business, and informal learning. The workhorse of the knowledge economy has been, and continues to be, informal learning. Most teaming about how to do a job is informal. “Training&# ?

Informal Learning 47

Informal Learning Informal Knowledge Worker Communities of Practice 47

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. Take Linux or the GitHub community for example.

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eLearning Strategy Strategy Blended Learning Community 133

Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Teaching and learning practices benefit from the collective knowledge that social technology provides. Social media practices can facilitate new forms of collaborative knowledge construction. It encourages civic engagement in broader communities of practice.

Social Networks 66

Social Networks Summary Emergent Classroom 66

Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

The emergent nature of MOOCs can have interesting outcomes: They can enable the formation of Communities of Interests (CoIs), which can evolve into Communities of Practices (CoPs) if participants are keen on building the domain knowledge and practices. The desire to reach out with the intent to learn is a mindset.

Diversity Training 100

Diversity Training Blended Learning Skills Learner 100

Jane Hart

AUGUST 27, 2012

A Social Business is one that embraces and cultivates a spirit of collaboration and community throughout its organization—both internally and externally.”. Recognises that formal learning accounts for small % of how people learn in the organisation. Informal learning. Social learning. Community management.

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Blended Learning Social Business Performance Support 198

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.

Learning Technologies 40

Learning Technologies Technology Learner Communities of Practice 40

Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Another theory derived from social constructivism has been proposed by Lave and Wenger (1991) who argue that the formation of communities of practice can explain much of the informal learning that occurs for example in the workplace.

Social 88

Social Theory Compliance Training Communities of Practice 88

ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Creativity is a conversation--a tension--between individuals working on individual problems, and the professional communities they belong to. In a flattened learning system, there are fewer experts and more fellow learners on paths that may cross.

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Learning 2.0 Blended Learning Social Networks Gartner 132

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Here are the most popular posts on the Informal Learning Blog in 2009. Business Impact of Social and Informal Learning. T o implement social/informal learning infrastructure projects, learning and development professionals need to shift their focus from learning to earning.

Informal Learning 38

Informal Learning Informal Instructional Design Blogging 38

Clark Quinn

JANUARY 22, 2013

I decided to take this on, thinking about an org that was already in operation, with it’s goals, processes, and practices, and what I might do if I were to come in and get it going (with the support of the executive team to do what I thought was right). Thus, any created job aids would be appropriately located.

Cognitive 180

Cognitive Performance Support Screencast Compliance Training 180