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. Create a mentorship program and provide a framework for mentors and mentees to collaborate effectively.

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Voice Social Learning Blended Learning Social 53

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

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.

Communities of Practice 85

Communities of Practice Community Learning Research 85

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 10, 2010

Informal SharePoint. Informal RSS Feeds. Informal Communities of practice. Informal Community e-news. Informal Guerilla video (Flip cams). Informal iPad Leadership Channel. Informal SpacedEd Reinforcement.

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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.

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Learning Technologies Technology Learner Communities of Practice 40

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

That likely will make the numbers around a term like mobile learning a bit problematic. If someone can get to your online reference (stored on a wiki) through their smart phone's browser, is that mobile learning? Big winners: Communities of Practice, Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts. Look at mobile learning in education.

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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

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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Performance Support Saba Support Blended Learning 95

Clive on Learning

APRIL 29, 2011

Rob has achieved success by integrating formal and informal learning activities in pursuit of clear strategic business objectives. Each new employee is supported through the programme by a team of mentors. For this profile we turn to Rob Bartlett from Farm Credit in Canada.

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Communities of Practice SharePoint SAP Mentoring 77

Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of great learning architects in action. Rob has achieved success by integrating formal and informal learning activities in pursuit of clear strategic business objectives.

Communities of Practice 75

Communities of Practice SharePoint SAP Mentoring 75

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Jay Cross - father of the Informal Learning Flow has been doing some great writing recently that look at the future of corporate training. You have to support electronic offerings with mentors, guides, help desks, FAQs, reinforcement, and organizational support. More on this below. But first some context.

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Corporate eLearning Courseware Training Train 112

Jay Cross

MARCH 29, 2015

Here’s a summary of the Working Smarter Fieldbook : While learning is ascendant, training is in decline, for workers are embracing self-service learning; they learn in the context of work, not at some training class divorced from work. Finally, here’s a summary of Informal Learning.

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Social Networks Wiki Summary Social Network Analysis 36

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.

eLearning Strategy 133

eLearning Strategy Strategy Blended Learning Community 133

CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Former Thomson Reuters CLO Charles Jennings highlights the 70:20:10 framework for thinking about organizational learning: 10 percent of what we need to know to do our jobs comes from courses, 20 percent from mentoring or coaching, and 70 percent is learned on the job through independent initiative.

Performance Support 72

Performance Support Performance Mentoring Suite 72

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

Providing environments, tools and processes that encourage informal learning, knowledge sharing of effective practices and stimulate innovation. Not many firms recognize or care about sub-optimal performance in this area - the results you see, are diffuse, obtuse and difficult to fit into classic ROI models.

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Marcia Conner

JANUARY 26, 2012

It involves memory, synapses, endorphins, and encoding, and, more often than not, those accidental and serendipitous moments we call informal learning. Most real learning—the kind that sticks to the walls of the brain—is informal. Informal learning is what goes on around our formal learning process.

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Blended Learning Instant Messaging Simulations Virtual Classroom 70

CLO Magazine

JULY 8, 2013

Despite recent and continued emphasis on social media to support learning, the most significant types of informal learning aren’t technology-based. “More social learning efforts, connecting experts with learners real-time as learning is happening on the job,” said one CLO.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

And someone is always responsible for supporting your development – with coaching from your line manager and mentoring. Communities of practice have been established for more 12 years, with well-defined policies and systems. So it’s called informal learning or on-the-job learning.

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Wiki Blended Learning Diversity Training Compliance Training 71

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Of the "online services offered", roughly 80% of organisations are using formal materials and assessments, 60% performance support including job aids and online books, and 40% collaboration between learners, coaching and mentoring, communities of practice and tutor support (all of which are expected to grow significantly in the next three years).

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Research Virtual Classroom Wiki Blended Learning 40

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. Every participant in the career advisor program has at least one mentor.

Social Networks 40

Social Networks Wiki IBM Metrics 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.

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Technology Wiki Metrics CLO 38

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

You have to support electronic offerings with mentors, guides, help desks, FAQs, reinforcement, and organizational support. Concepts at work in pull learning include: Learning on demand, immediate reinforcement. Learning while working, not separate from working. Peer learning, communities of practice, collaboration.

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Compliance Training Corporate eLearning eLearning Simulations 38

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

You have to support electronic offerings with mentors, guides, help desks, FAQs, reinforcement, and organizational support. Concepts at work in pull learning include: Learning on demand, immediate reinforcement. Learning while working, not separate from working. Peer learning, communities of practice, collaboration.

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Compliance Training Corporate eLearning eLearning Simulations 37

eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Top 100 Tools for Learning: The Final List , Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day , November 16, 2009. Learning for the 21st Century - Informal Learning , December 17, 2008. How to Use This Free Screencasting Tool for E-Learning - Rapid eLearning Blog , August 25, 2009. Informal learning - what is it?

Blended Learning 73

Blended Learning Social Networks Compliance Training Google Wave 73

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.

Diversity Training 51

Diversity Training Social Networks Communities of Practice Forum 51

Living in Learning

AUGUST 23, 2009

The type of learning that is rapidly trending upward is informal learning. My choice of new tactics is applying the concept of a learning continuum that takes a holistic approach to the whole learning pie, and at the same time, embracing the potential of five different moments of learning need.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

NOVEMBER 8, 2004

Tools for prescribing learning, managing development pathways and goals and handling e-commerce and financial transactions related to learning. The utilities and capabilities for supporting informal learning, mentoring, communities of practice and other "non-training" interventions.

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Virtual Classroom CD-ROM Search IBM 32

Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I love not only having great communities of practice with people that are in the industry, but also obviously, helping that next generation of learning designer with the right mindset and skills to succeed. If you had to boil down one key lesson from your experience in the learning industry, what would it be?

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Digital Metrics Performance Support Performance 52

Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I love not only having great communities of practice with people that are in the industry, but also obviously, helping that next generation of learning designer with the right mindset and skills to succeed. If you had to boil down one key lesson from your experience in the learning industry, what would it be?

Digital 52

Digital Metrics Performance Support Performance 52

eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The Human Factor: Social Media as Mentoring Platforms by Mary Arnold - Learning Solutions Magazine , August 17, 2010 Have you ever thought of social learning platforms as knowledge management tools – ways to store an organization’s knowledge. Post from: The eLearning Coach How To Integrate Multimedia For Effective Learning.

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Augmented Reality Blended Learning Social Learning Social 83

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. Conference attendance have played a vital role in our professional development. over the years is wearing thin. (let

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Conference Authoring Tools Diversity Training Compliance Training 36

Jay Cross

MAY 26, 2015

In the same vein, I talk about Working Smarter instead of informal learning, social learning, and so forth. Some people denigrate informal learning but nobody’s against Working Smarter. Your organization already has a workscape where people are learning to work smarter. Mentors, coaching.

Metrics 36

Metrics Compliance Training Social Networks IBM 36

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

We are potentially stuck in a situation where we have moderately experienced apprentice-journeymen, even at senior levels, once those that received proper coaching and mentoring depart the organization. It can manifest as a blended learning campaign or a simple course. This results in a serious shortage of journeymen and masters.

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Blended Learning Sexual Harassment Training Market Games 100

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 12, 2010

Cross is a champion of informal learning, Web 2.0, He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix three decades ago. Quality in eLearning (Bogota), LearnX (Melbourne), and Learning Technology (London).

Informal Learning 73

Informal Learning Performance Support Informal Support 73

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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Informal Learning Informal Blended Learning Authoring Tools 98

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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