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.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 10, 2010

Informal Learnshop. Informal Case Studies. Informal Non-formal video. Informal Discussion group/ forum. Informal SharePoint. Informal RSS Feeds. Informal Communities of practice. Informal Community e-news.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

With upwards of 20 million Twitter users around the world, companies should at the very least be scanning this massive public forum to keep tabs on what people are saying about them. This is a classic example of informal learning , and it’s central to the evolution and modernisation of workplace training.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

After my last blog post , a commenter asked a pertinent question: Many organizations/companies have multiple intranets, wiki sites, and so forth, often making it difficult for employees to know where to go when they want an answer or more information.

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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.

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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. You could then be supported in meeting those goals through YouTube-style video channels, communities of practice, shared content, webinars run using Saba Meetings, and so on.

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Jay Cross

MAY 1, 2012

Six years ago few people believed that informal learning made much of a difference. Today’s common wisdom is that most workplace learning is experiential, unplanned, social, and informal. Informal learning tops many training department agendas. The information explosion has hit.

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Obsidian Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2015

One of the best ways is to encourage interaction and informal learning among learners after completing WBT. Here are a few ideas: Use wikis, blogs, or even Twitter (perhaps with a unique hashtag) to build virtual communities of practice. For more ideas, see our article on informal learning in the workplace.

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EI Design

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Content Curation is a great way to foster a culture of continuous learning. It encourages informal learning (just-in-time learning that particularly is useful for Performance Support intervention) and, more specifically, Self-Directed Learning. As learning resources that provide just-in-time help.

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TalentLMS

MAY 16, 2016

Social learning creates the much in-demand informal learning setting where learners can network, share, collaborate, and exchange ideas on problem-solving. Let’s examine some top benefits of social learning in organizations. What is Social Learning? This has led to a positive growth in job performance.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2012

Facilitating collaborative online learning More modern, informal learning approaches put the trainer as the ‘guide on the side’ rather than the ‘sage on the stage’. These days a great deal of that guiding is going to be online, using web sites, forums, wikis, blogs and all sorts of communities of practice.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

Providing environments, tools and processes that encourage informal learning, knowledge sharing of effective practices and stimulate innovation. Open space methods, creating forums and 'Ba' for trusted exchanges, blogging and informal wikis may help.

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Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

It offers learners facilities like a forum, blogs and wiki’s to share knowledge and to experience the learning process together. The feeling is that we are now on the verge of a new phase in the development of e-Learning. Studies show that already 80% of what we learn is informal learning.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Social knowledge management consultant Harold Jarche suggests there are multiple layers, from collaborating in work teams, to collective learning in communities of practice, to cooperative learning with peers and friends in our networks (Figure 1). Learning leaders should facilitate this learning to optimize outcomes.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

Communities of practice have been established for more 12 years, with well-defined policies and systems. On-demand approaches To support on-demand learning Shell has its own wiki, with 70,000 users and more than 40,000 articles. So it’s called informal learning or on-the-job learning.

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The Learning Circuits

AUGUST 23, 2005

Recently while researching on the web on topics regarding Communities of Practice I came across the Community Intelligence Labs (CoIL) website. Among them I found the following 14 guidelines on How to Optimize Organizational Learning written by Entienne Wenger in the summer of 1996 for the Healthcare Forum Journal.

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eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

- The E-Learning Curve , September 15, 2009. Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank - eLearning Technology , September 15, 2009. Podcasting for E-Learning: Recording Audio - The E-Learning Curve , September 14, 2009. The Free e-Learning Page Hits 100 - MinuteBio , September 13, 2009.

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Janet Clarey

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

This is a full social networking and communities environment, complete with professional networking features (rich user profiles, communities of practice, expertise location, alumni networks, etc.) features (blogs, wikis, syndication, surveys/polls, discussion forums, tag clouds, file/document/video/podcast libraries, etc.).

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The social learning revolution has only just begun. Corporations that understand the value of knowledge sharing, teamwork, informal learning and joint problem solving are investing heavily in collaboration technology and are reaping the early rewards. The problem?

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Jay Cross

JULY 6, 2009

The top posts from sources selected for Informal Learning Flow in the first six months of 2009: Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles - OReilly Radar , January 11, 2009. Ten years after - Informal Learning , January 10, 2009. Dimensions of Social Groups - Workplace Learning Today , May 18, 2009.

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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. Watch out for it.

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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. Response 48 Information that can easily be translated into action - solutions. Response 38. Response 39.

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eLearning Learning Posts

JUNE 9, 2010

Workscape evolution - Informal Learning , May 7, 2010 This morning Jane Hart posted this 5-stage model of the evolution of workplace learning in an organization. I’ve re-worked the model to show: my domain is the workscape (the merger of work and learning, the learning ecosystem). Not even close.

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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. Helping workers learn how to improve their learning skills. Explicitly teaching workers how to learn.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

It can manifest as a blended learning campaign or a simple course. Or it could be a complex five year plan with evaluation milestones, multiple 'sorties', a content strategy, community of practice, set of job aids, marketing collateral, partnership agreements, policy re-write, cultural adjustment planning (long game marketing), etc.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2009

At CapGemini, six months after the informal launch, the 900 communities of practice were using 500 forums, 500 wikis and more than 250 expertise- or project-focused blogs. Business results as defined in the previous paragraph are not long behind. Increase in Connection to Valuable Third Parties.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 7, 2010

If we dispense with online courses in favour of PDFs, how can we incorporate interactivity into the learning experience? Enter the Informal Learning Environment (ILE). Essentially, an ILE is a space (like a website or intranet site) that centralises relevant learning resources in a particular domain. Informalise learning.

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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

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? The overarching requirement is to develop workers who think for themselves, who can drive their own learning and are not restrained by the norms and processes of the past.

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