The Learning Circuits

JULY 9, 2012

Social media and mobile technologies have turned the spotlight on social learning concepts, which in turn have made more of us think about the large, ill-charted dark matter of culture : informal learning. Their work here is done , because everyone in your care now understands the value of social and informal learning.

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Network Personal Learning Personal Personalization 83

Instancy

MARCH 9, 2023

Creating Communities of Practice Instancy’s social learning tools help learners to create communities of practice based on their interests. Each learning community may have its own unique site containing a content library, discussion forums, wiki knowledge base, polls, and more.

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Social Learning Wiki Social Social Networks 52

Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

Published in Chief Learning Officer, August 2009. Informal Learning 2.0. In the world of business, the era of networks is crowding out the Industrial Age. Networks reduce transfer costs to zero, enabling companies to focus on what they do best while outsourcing what others can do better.

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Learning 2.0 Informal Learning Informal Cognitive 75

Tony Karrer

JUNE 16, 2009

eLearning Technology , June 3, 2009 Student Guide: Introduction to ‘Wikis’ in Blackboard - Don't Waste Your Time , June 12, 2009 Discovering Instructional Design 11: The Kemp Model - The E-Learning Curve , June 10, 2009 I Say Instructional Designer, You Say Tomah-toe - Learning Visions , June 9, 2009 Attribution in a Web 2.0

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Social Networks Social Network Analysis Social Network Network 100

The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 5, 2012

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. Peer-to-peer learning that is “ lite on content and rich in interaction”.

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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.

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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.

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Informal Learning Classes Informal Wiki 40

ID Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2011

An instructional designer by profession who started her career anlayzing learner needs, creating micro-design documents, writing story-boards and discussing the nitty-gritty of course navigation with visual designers, I have long been interested in the power of social, collaborative and informal learning. Powered by enterprise2.0

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Instructional Design Community Enterprise Instructional 193

Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Chapter 9: “ Like, Comment, Share: Collaboration and Civic Engagement Within Social Network Sites ,” by Greenhow and Lee, in Emerging Technologies for the Classroom: A Learning Sciences Perspective. Social media and social networking sites allow individuals and groups to collaborate and learn together.

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Social Networks Summary Emergent Classroom 66

The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 2, 2015

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. Peer-to-peer learning that is “ lite on content and rich in interaction”.

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Social Networks Culture Organization Create 100

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.

Social Networks 172

Social Networks Cognitive Enterprise 2.0 Social Network 172

Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. The Internet Time Alliance , which he chairs, helps corporations and governments use networks to accelerate performance. Jay has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix.

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Blended Learning Social Networks Internet Informal Learning 167

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. Metcalfe’s Law.).

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Informal Learning Informal Instructional Design Blogging 38

Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

social networks (yammer, chatter). formal learning elements (micro videos, webinars, workshops). work based learning mechanisms (action learning projects) and much, much more. Learning can only happen when a child is interested. Similarly, formal learning can help shape and direct informal learning.

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Blended Learning Performance Support Social Networks Create 100

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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Blended Learning Scanning Social Networks Instructional Design 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. Networks have to be consciously created, cultivated and nurtured.

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Diversity Training Blended Learning Skills Learner 154

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 20, 2012

This model came from a look at how people act in the world and I was reminded of it during a conversation on informal learning. However, there may be times when we can’t rely on that well-practiced approach (say, for instance, if our usual route home is blocked for some reason).

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Performance Support Performance Communities of Practice Picture 187

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

For all the talk about networks and knowledge sharing, it appears many organizations aren’t practicing it. In the middle of 2008, a notice appeared on the Informal Learning blog (informl.com) requesting participation in a survey of informal and Web 2.0 learning practices. No time for reflection. •

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Network Communities of Practice Trends Wiki 36

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. It is a construct of the network, a constantly flowing and shifting set of paradigms and practices.

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Social Media Conference Courseware Virtual World 124

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

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

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.

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eLearning Strategy Strategy Blended Learning Community 133

Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. The Internet Time Alliance , which he chairs, helps corporations and governments use networks to accelerate performance. Jay has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix.

Blended Learning 113

Blended Learning Social Networks Internet Informal Learning 113

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

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.

Social Learning 167

Social Learning Community Social Social Media 167

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. Networks have to be consciously created, cultivated and nurtured.

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Diversity Training Blended Learning Skills Learner 100

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. has become mainstream.

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Social Networks MySpace Social Network Ratio 62

E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

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. I share my knowledge, and I learn a lot more in return. Personal applications. participatory culture.

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Twitter Scanning Social Networks Business 198

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Even without that, however, there are big offerings on the table for informal learning, via access to resources and networks. Social Formal Learning. You also have the opportunity to use the formal social learning as a way to introduce the learners into the communities of practice you can and should be building.

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Brain Performance Support Calendar Mobile 174

Jane Hart

AUGUST 27, 2012

to the ”blend” Learning in the flow or work, “smart” working. peer-learning, collaborative learning. networked mindset). How learning is understood. Learning = Telling/Training, Learning = Studying. Informal learning. Social learning. Community management.

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Blended Learning Social Business Performance Support 198

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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Performance Support Blended Learning Support Performance 190

Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Try Before You Buy Tools Used Better Conferences - Response Needed Roles in CoP's The science of learning Learning 2.0 My Top 25 blogs for 2008 Blogging as Reflective Practice The Elearning Apprentice Part 2: A four-level framework for evaluating social network ROI.

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Social Networks Blended Learning Authoring Tools PLE 139

Learnnovators

MAY 11, 2015

I have been writing about social learning and its related concepts – communities of practices , working out loud and skills for the networked world for quite some time now. The catch is that “social learning” cannot just be implemented or enforced. Learning and working have become one and the same.

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Social Learning Social Integrate Blended Learning 176

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. Anyone who maintains a personal learning network will clearly recognise this phenomenon.

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Social Theory Compliance Training Communities of Practice 88

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 10, 2010

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

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Case Study Social Networks Wiki SharePoint 72

Web Courseworks

MARCH 22, 2010

When it comes to eLearning, the Guild is a trusted source of information, networking and a true community of practice. Will Thalheimer and his session, Improving Systems Training by Adding Informal Learning to the Blend.

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Blended Learning Conference Expert eLearning Guild 100

Learning with e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Self regulation of learning is thought to be a characteristic of individual students (Beishuizen, 2008) but increasingly can be contextualised within social learning environments. A number of collaborative and social networking tools regularly play a role within the average student PLE. 2000) Informal Workplace Learning.

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