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

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.

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Companies Strategy Communities of Practice Community 49

Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay Cross helps people work and live smarter. Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. The Internet Time Alliance , which he chairs, helps corporations and governments use networks to accelerate performance. He literally wrote the book on Informal Learning. Jay has keynoted conferences in the U.S.,

Blended Learning 113

Blended Learning Social Networks Internet Informal Learning 113

CLO Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Those programs quickly transformed into self-paced, e-learning or remote learning programs as the “new normal” to support ramp-ups and employee development. When formal training was not feasible, most organizations had to resort to field learning using peer support and more leverage of workflow coaching by senior employees.

Metrics 89

Metrics Lesson Performance Support Unison 89

Learnnovators

APRIL 14, 2015

Here is a heart warming story of how interacting with Siri helped an autistic child make sense of the world at his pace – How One Boy with Autism Became BFF with Apple’s Siri. However, it is in the news with events like NASA completing first successful 3-D printing project in space. Collaboration will replace competition.

Blended Learning 100

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Recognises that formal learning accounts for small % of how people learn in the organisation. Training often outsourced, on-demand access to self-paced learning, f2f networking important, facilitated collaborative/peer-learning available in the workflow. Informal learning. Social learning.

Blended Learning 198

Blended Learning Social Business Performance Support 198

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

Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

However, it is the discussions, collaborative project works, and user-generated content and context that often spill over outside the course boundary which differentiates a MOOC from any regular online course. ” Most learners are used to “solo” learning, both in the academic and the corporate world.

Diversity Training 154

Diversity Training Blended Learning Skills Learner 154

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

The 20 percent: learning through others. Learning is social. People learn with and through others. Conversations are the stem cells of learning. Effective managers encourage their team members to buddy up on projects, to shadow others and to participate in professional social networks. Communities of practice.

Diversity Training 51

Diversity Training Social Networks Communities of Practice Forum 51

The Learning Circuits

JULY 9, 2012

What we do (rather, how we do it) is influenced greatly by technologies that support more flexible means of communication and collaboration. We can explain communities of practice without once using the phrase "well, no, that's not really an example of what i'm talking about."! Except maybe they don't.

Network 83

Network Personal Learning Personal Personalization 83

Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

However, it is the discussions, collaborative project works, and user-generated content and context that often spill over outside the course boundary which differentiates a MOOC from any regular online course. Most learners are used to “solo” learning, both in the academic and the corporate world.

Diversity Training 100

Diversity Training Blended Learning Skills Learner 100

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

We need practical ways to build personal informal networks. Helping groups learn from mistakes and errors, practices to carry over learnings from project to project and improve corporate memory. Once again top level support, legitimization and walking the talk - leading via example is the key.

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Knowledge Management Issue Knowledge Wiki 100

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? And L&D must be able to enable such community building within organizations. What are the fundamental support required to enable this?

Diversity Training 133

Diversity Training Blended Learning PKM Community 133

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Branon Learning Management System App Stores Bob Little Apps, Not Courses Inge de Waard Augmented reality moves towards augmented learning with easy tools: Wikitude , Layar , ARToolKit. Situated learning (learning within context in a community of practice) grows thanks to augmented mobile reality.

Predictions 198

Predictions Diversity Training Compliance Training Authoring Tools 198

Limestone Learning

MARCH 30, 2020

The coronavirus may have robbed us of face-to-face interaction, but it can’t rob us of learning. There are tons of free webinars this month to keep you connected with your communities of practice. We hope they help you keep calm and carry on. Help employees learn how to learn.

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Free Brandon Hall Blended Learning Virtual Classroom 89

Learning Visions

JUNE 14, 2007

Thursday, June 14, 2007 Defining an e-Learning Strategy: Planning the Kickoff In the spirit of building a Community of Practice -- sharing ideas and processes -- I thought Id try and share what I can of a current project. My kickoff meeting experience has been historically very focused on a specific content project.

Learning Strategy 100

Learning Strategy eLearning Strategy Instructional Design Strategy 100

Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Blake Proberts is joined on the Strategic L&D Podcast by Josh Cardoz—an independent Digital Learning Strategist with over a decade’s experience helping organisations go digital the right way. So I'm an independent digital learning strategist. Data is just simply a conversation to help us do that. But I love it.

Digital 52

Digital Metrics Performance Support Performance 52

Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Blake Proberts is joined on the Strategic L&D Podcast by Josh Cardoz—an independent Digital Learning Strategist with over a decade’s experience helping organisations go digital the right way. So I'm an independent digital learning strategist. Data is just simply a conversation to help us do that. But I love it.

Digital 52

Digital Metrics Performance Support Performance 52

eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Why experts shouldn’t design online resources for novices - Good Practice , August 4, 2010 What does it take to be an expert? It’s a good question for people involved in learning and development. concepts and practices. Post from: The eLearning Coach How To Integrate Multimedia For Effective Learning. So we should know.

Augmented Reality 83

Augmented Reality Blended Learning Social Learning Social 83

ATD Learning Technologies

JANUARY 14, 2016

Enlisting the help of organizational influencers to model use of social technologies and involving users in designing learning opportunities also garnered responses of more than 50 percentage points. Make participation in social learning a formal job expectation for employees; 30%.

Social Media 40

Social Media Social Learning Social Media 40

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.

Technology 38

Technology Wiki Metrics CLO 38

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2008

Propose lean-and-mean approaches such as peer learning and performance support. Better that it’s your informed choice than someone else’s across-the-board cuts. Become the go-to person for social networks, informal learning, and podcasts. Empower communities of practice and project teams.

Social Networks 36

Social Networks Metrics Social Network Director 36

eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Twitter in the classroom: 10 useful resources - Social Media in Learning , August 12, 2009. 9 Free Tools That Help Me Build Better E-Learning , Rapid eLearning Blog , May 5, 2009. 7 Creative Ways to Introduce Social Media to Your Team - Learning Putty , October 22, 2009. Developing a PLE Using Web 2.0 ADDIE is dead!

Blended Learning 73

Blended Learning Social Networks Compliance Training Google Wave 73

eLearning Learning Posts

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

This can give you the deep insights required to understand learners and to create worthwhile learning experiences. Here are Saffron’s top ten tips for making sure videos are adding value to your e-learning rather than just adding megabytes to your course. Hopefully future postings will be more timely.

Google Wave 46

Google Wave PKM SharePoint Podcasts 46

Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2010

Stand-up instruction is giving way to peer learning. The training director’s objective is to help his sponsors achieve their goals. Business managers set objectives; training directors help achieve them. Here are some things one might add to any training director’s job description: • Supporting the informal learning process.

Business 52

Business Metrics Director Knowledge Worker 52

eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Hot Topic #2 - Social Media , Social Networks , Social Learning , and Informal Learning. Social media, social networks, communities for learning both formal and informal is bigger than I think we can even imagine at this point. What is Informal Learning , February 19, 2009. Community (1202).

Social Networks 49

Social Networks Google Wave LearnTrends Virtual Classroom 49

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. Digital Habitats posits the role of the community technology steward. Identifying and spreading good technology practices.

Skills 40

Skills Wiki LearnTrends Attitudes 40

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). Or collaborate on a project?

eLearning Strategy 89

eLearning Strategy Corporate eLearning Authoring Tools eLearning 89

Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2009

Understandably, seasoned executives, chief learning officers among them, are having a devil of a time shifting from the industrial age mindset of logic, certainty and bounded constraints to the network gestalt of interaction, self-organization, unpredictability and fewer limits to potential. It’s the language senior managers understand.

ROI 66

ROI Social Networks Network Authoring Tools 66

Jay Cross

JULY 17, 2012

Apologists who had fallen for the lure of computerizing all aspects of learning supplemented eLearning with face-to-face meetings and other forms of support and dubbed it “blended learning.”. Training directors learned enough accounting to talk about ROI. Training is not the same as learning. Know where.

Corporate eLearning 71

Corporate eLearning Compliance Training Blended Learning Training 71

Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

We worked with the responsible program element to help them gather and establish their data baselines. First, we partner as equals in the project. We do this by helping them map out their baselines and current state data, so that down the road we can look at organizational impact. Blended learning is good. Think bigger.

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Blended Learning Sexual Harassment Training Market Games 100

eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

5 Tips to help you Plan your Next Presentation - Free as in Freedom , April 26, 2010 “Presentation is the ‘Killer Skill’ we take into the real world. Cool e-learning for kids (and their grown-ups, too) - Spark Your Interest , April 9, 2010 I’m working with a school district to help them figure out how to incorporate web 2.0

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Google Buzz iPad Blended Learning Google 85