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. It could be knowledge gained from reading, Web searching, or from colleagues and friends. Build a Learning Culture. Pershing (Ed.),

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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.

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Learning 2.0 Informal Learning Informal Cognitive 75

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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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Over the next two decades we can expect the knowledge of the world to be digitalised, with an exponential rise in user-generated content, "wise-crowd" application and open innovation applications." This has wide-ranging implication on learning and the future of work. Only adults doing their work.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

Leaders say how they will support learning and how they will recognize and reward those employees who continually acquire new knowledge and new skills. . Build trust - Employees will invest time and effort in learning if they trust their managers. This message is in the guiding principles of the business.

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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.

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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.

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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. Her system walks you through how to target real outcomes rather than transferring knowledge for knowledge sake. SUPPORT AN ENGAGED, GROWTH MINDSET.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

Great post by Denham Grey - Perennial KM issues that are very similar to the core problems that we deal with in eLearning: How to speed learning, increase awareness and share experiences. With an ever deceasing half-life of knowledge , just keeping up has become a major corporate imperative. practices ?

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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.,

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Matrix

MARCH 22, 2018

Today’s employees focus a lot on learning and development — both personal and professional — as they know that acquiring new knowledge and skills, and always improving these, is the way to a successful career. Therefore, getting the right learning opportunities makes them feel valued. What is a CoP and what it isn’t.

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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.

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Blended Learning Social Networks Internet Informal Learning 167

ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

Excerpts from the Best of T+D | 2007 - 2009 Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : As knowledge workers, we are like actors--only as good as our last performance. Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Professionals immeresed in communities of practice have a larger zone of proximal development.

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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

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.

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

1 Instructional Design Multimedia Learning Richard Mayer. 2 Workplace Learning The Fifth Discipline Peter Senge. 3 Workplace Learning Informal learning Jay Cross. 4 Workplace learning The Working Smarter Fieldbook Jay Cross. 5 Workplace Learning/Training Social Media for Trainers Jane Bozarth.

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Social Networks Cognitive Enterprise 2.0 Social Network 172

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.

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Social Networks Culture Organization Create 100

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.

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Informal Learning Informal Instructional Design Blogging 38

Instilled

JULY 2, 2019

A constant state of connection has grown increasingly common, especially for knowledge workers. Because of its on-demand consumability, microlearning can elevate productivity and performance—delivering concise, targeted learning content designed to close gaps in skills and knowledge. Capture tacit and institutional knowledge.

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Learning Technologies Technology Learner Communities of Practice 40

Jay Cross

JULY 7, 2013

We’re seeing a more interactive model of learning. Think about how you learn a new software program. Communities of practice , a term coined by Institute for Research on Learning staff. Learning is a condition of continuing membership in that community. It’s always informal. Barn raising.

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Communities of Practice Community Learning Research 85

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 113

Blended Learning Social Networks Internet Informal Learning 113

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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Diversity Training Blended Learning Skills Learner 154

Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Just about every day I find myself embroiled in a discussions about fundamentals of learning, the nature of knowledge and the processes of education. When I'm not talking about learning, I'm reading about it, researching it, thinking about it, and writing about it. This is known as the zone of proximal development (ZPD).

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Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Social media on the other hand supports research while also encouraging a learning process that is rich with peer to peer interaction. Teaching and learning practices benefit from the collective knowledge that social technology provides. It encourages civic engagement in broader communities of practice.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 20, 2010

Image via Wikipedia "Collaboration is a process through which people who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for the solution that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible." ~ Anecdote And informal learning is hinged on collaboration.

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Instructional Design Pattern Wikipedia Collaboration 137

ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. Working from home offers me plenty of solitude but not the intellectual stimulation and those over-the-shoulder conversations so crucial to serendipity, ambient awareness, and informal learning. Are you a knowledge worker working from home?

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ID Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

What I have learned in the last 3 years have been completely via social media. Social, informal learning. I am a part of a huge global network of educators and learned, a virtual community of practice. Knowledge in this community is constantly being reconstructed through dialogue, conversation, and debate.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 3, 2011

That means more than 16,000 videos were contributed by members of the Angry Birds Community of Practice. The clear distinction between the Angry Birds community and the average workplace community-of-practice is obvious: the AB folks are making money for producing content.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Let’s say you are the Director of a company’s Education/Training department and you want to move more toward information learning. As the Director, you want to harness the knowledge within and have the experts bring their conversations to a wiki site. Tap into the knowledge of your groups.

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The Learning Circuits

MAY 2, 2006

I'm currently preparing a project for European funding aiming at the development of communities of practice as a structured way of fostering and deepening transfer and sharing of skills, knowledge and competency. Clark and others will no doubt have an opinion, but that isn't really what concerns me today).

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Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 24, 2018

Usage of learning portals for corporate training initiatives is gaining momentum. In this article, I share 4 examples of how you can use them for both formal and informal learning to increase employee engagement. Learning Portals For Corporate Training: What Are Their Key Characteristics? Recommended learning paths.

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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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Diversity Training Blended Learning Skills Learner 100

E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Imagine interacting with your colleagues across the enterprise, asking questions, collaborating, sharing knowledge. This is a classic example of informal learning , and it’s central to the evolution and modernisation of workplace training. For example, I use Twitter as an international community of practice.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2012

e-learning/ OJT. to the ”blend” Learning in the flow or work, “smart” working. peer-learning, collaborative learning. knowledge sharing. How learning is understood. Learning = Telling/Training, Learning = Studying. Informal learning. Social learning. Management.

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Blended Learning Social Business Performance Support 198

Jane Hart

JUNE 4, 2012

Although, modern office spaces do provide open meeting areas which support informal gatherings, remember too that we also learn with others virtually – even when we are sitting on our own – so we also need to provide similar virtual informal (learning) spaces.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

As we get older, we consolidate what we have learnt, modifying our knowledge and skills as new information and techniques become known to us. This is contentious, but I believe learning is changing because what we can learn no longer has any boundaries. This in turn promotes new forms of learning.

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