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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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

L&D executives, business professionals and training thought leaders learned the importance of formulating effective strategies for the future to be at par with their competitors. 5 major lessons learned in 2021. These dynamics made many organizations press their employees to learn faster.

Metrics 89

Metrics Lesson Performance Support Unison 89

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?

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Learning Portal Portal Diversity Training Examples 45

Clark Quinn

JANUARY 22, 2013

I decided to take this on, thinking about an org that was already in operation, with it’s goals, processes, and practices, and what I might do if I were to come in and get it going (with the support of the executive team to do what I thought was right). Again, with a performance strategy focus.

Cognitive 180

Cognitive Performance Support Screencast Compliance Training 180

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 167

Blended Learning Social Networks Internet Informal Learning 167

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

CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2012

By combining the power of the human brain with technology in a way that facilitates work, collaboration and communication, leaders can turn learning into multifaceted performance support. Learning leaders should facilitate this learning to optimize outcomes.

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Performance Support Performance Mentoring Suite 72

Jane Hart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Although the advent of e-technology in the late 1990s changed businesses into e-businesses, this was essentially about automating existing business thinking and practices. Similarly e-learning was also about automating traditional training practices. peer-learning, collaborative learning. Informal learning.

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Blended Learning Social Business Performance Support 198

ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

They are not predominantly directly related to learning or instructional design or theory (except for one or two); however, they all helped me to see the larger picture, to understand where workplace learning and training fits in, and why and where change is needed. 1 Instructional Design Multimedia Learning Richard Mayer.

Social Networks 172

Social Networks Cognitive Enterprise 2.0 Social Network 172

EI Design

AUGUST 19, 2020

This year, the COVID-19 crisis has reset the trends leaving HR leaders and L&D teams to rethink the way they manage and train the workforce. Training remote learners and driving performance gain over distance is the new reality. Trends that foster continuous learning. eLearning Trends in 2020 – Mobile Learning.

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Trends Blended Learning Compliance Training eLearning Strategy 75

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., Training) Non-Instructional Interventions (e.g.,

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Informal Learning Wiki KM Informal 100

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?

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Network Diversity Training PKM Communities of Practice 202

Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

Reasons to measure learning: Prove benefits. Support learning. Traditionally, we focus only on the training intervention & formal learning. Hopefully that leads to OTJ performance, then individual fulfillment and organizational results. Compare to other alternatives (formal/informal learning).

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Social Networks Social Network ROI Network 193

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

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Social Network Analysis Social Network Network 100

Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

How do you use social learning to support formal learning? How do you motivate people to participate in social learning when their schedules are already full? How can we sell the idea of social learning to skeptical managers? Tell your managers what you have learned! Social learning is something you DO.

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eLearning Guild Social Learning Social Metrics 208

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

Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Previously, I was the head of digital learning experience at a large professional services firm. And prior to that I was head of the solutions design team for, sort of, a creative digital learning agency. I also teach at the University of Toronto, I teach a certificate program on learning experience design. But I love it.

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Digital Metrics Performance Support Performance 52

Acorn Labs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Previously, I was the head of digital learning experience at a large professional services firm. And prior to that I was head of the solutions design team for, sort of, a creative digital learning agency. I also teach at the University of Toronto, I teach a certificate program on learning experience design. But I love it.

Digital 52

Digital Metrics Performance Support Performance 52

EI Design

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This gap can be addressed through Content Curation that provides users the curated or relevant information they seek. The use of Content Curation for corporate training is on a steady increase and it is being leveraged by L&D teams to support formal training as well as informal training.

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Corporate eLearning eLearning Strategy Strategy Content 40

Instilled

JULY 2, 2019

Rather than delivering learning that requires employees to take time from their roles to complete, L&D teams can harness the hyperconnectivity that pervades the modern workplace to seamlessly integrate training and development into the learner’s day-to-day tasks. Capture Tacit Knowledge and Build Communities of Practice.

Learning Technologies 40

Learning Technologies Technology Learner Communities of Practice 40

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. How many people really have the opportunity to pursue the Future of Corporate Training? To me eLearning definitely includes all of these other electronic means of providing support.

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Corporate eLearning Courseware Training Train 112

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. They needn’t worry.

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Informal Learning Informal Instructional Design Blogging 38

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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Learning 2.0 Blended Learning Social Networks Gartner 132

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.

Diversity Training 154

Diversity Training Blended Learning Skills Learner 154

Living in Learning

AUGUST 23, 2009

The concept of a learning shift represents a course correction by the USS Training Department. Choose a metaphor of your own; bottom-line is painfully clear – the learning game has changed, and our tactics and methodologies that worked so well in a traditional “training war” are not as effective in a non-traditional battle.

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Performance Support Design Support Instructional Design 113

EI Design

JANUARY 28, 2020

Section 1: eLearning Trends in 2020 that will help you achieve high learner engagement, performance gain, and behavioral change. Mobile Learning. Mobile Apps for Learning. Personalized Learning. Digitization of ILT to Blended or Fully Online Learning. Performance Support Tools. Informal Learning.

Trends 52

Trends Blended Learning eLearning Strategy Corporate eLearning 52

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. Social learning” cannot be assigned as one would a course or a module.

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Social Learning Social Integrate Blended Learning 176

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. In this post, I want to focus on the support and environment needed to get people started.

eLearning Strategy 133

eLearning Strategy Strategy Blended Learning Community 133

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 24, 2009

eLearning Acupuncture Breakthrough eLearning Discovery Through eLearning eLearning Weekly Engaged Learning eLearning Community 2.0 eLearning Acupuncture Breakthrough eLearning Discovery Through eLearning eLearning Weekly Engaged Learning eLearning Community 2.0

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Blogging Corporate eLearning eLearning Consultant eLearning Strategy 152

Mindflash

MAY 23, 2012

Each week for the next five weeks, I will write a blog post on each of the five critical skills: business acumen, rapid instructional design, social/informal learning, enterprise 2.0 collaboration, and performance support. I was a new training manager. It was about the performance, not the training.

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Enterprise 2.0 Authoring Tools Instructional Design Skills 91

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. Written by our Guest Blogger, Sahana Chattopadhyay.

Diversity Training 100

Diversity Training Blended Learning Skills Learner 100

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

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. Craig holds a B.A.

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Network Personal Learning Personal Personalization 83

Learning with e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

One challenge for education providers is to decide whether they will support the desire of students to self regulate their learning activities using personal technologies. 2006) Informal Learning: Rediscovering the natural pathways that inspire innovation and performance. 2000) Simple Moments of Learning.

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Theory Social Networks Digital Cognitive 103

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. The three weeks of residential classroom training are interspersed with assignments and conference calls.

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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

Litmos

JANUARY 16, 2019

There’s no claim that this list is comprehensive, but it is grounded in a ‘performance ecosystem ’ perspective. There are other causes of performance problems in organizations besides skill gaps. Performance support and social networks are two other key elements, and don’t neglect them. Don’t stop with courses.

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Social Networks Cognitive Performance Support Diversity Training 51