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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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

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.

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Instructional Design Community Enterprise Instructional 193

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. “Training&# ?

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Informal Learning Informal Knowledge Worker Communities of Practice 47

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

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

Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

The 4C’s of mobile: Content, Capture, Compute, Communicate Moving from event based model to “slow learning” – to match the way we learn and provide opportunities for repeated activation. What are the ingredients of building a Community of Practice? There are no such things as learning metrics.

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eLearning Guild Social Learning Social Metrics 208

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

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. Internet culture.

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Informal Learning Informal Instructional Design Blogging 38

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 113

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. Learning Portals – act as hubs for all the resources listed above.

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Performance Support Blended Learning Support Performance 190

Jay Cross

JULY 7, 2013

The mental model of “I teach/you learn” is fraught with problems. 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. It’s always informal. Barn raising.

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Communities of Practice Community Learning Research 85

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.

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Social Networks Summary Emergent Classroom 66

Mindflash

AUGUST 30, 2016

So why then are we spending so much time and effort designing and delivering formal training programs. Perhaps learning and development professionals do think about informal learning but do not really know what it is or how to implement it. Here are some practical approaches to informal learning.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Businesses that used to rely heavily on travel-intensive formal, instructor-led, classroom-type training programs almost came to a standstill during the pandemic. Those programs quickly transformed into self-paced, e-learning or remote learning programs as the “new normal” to support ramp-ups and employee development.

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Metrics Lesson Performance Support Unison 89

CLO Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2014

Furthermore, the Project Management Institute’s report “The Competitive Advantage of Effective Talent Management” from March 2013 discovered that organizations with strong talent management programs met 72 percent of their project goals as compared to 58 percent for organizations with a weaker career development focus.

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Blended Learning Virtual Classroom Blended Communities of Practice 60

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.

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Social Networks MySpace Social Network Ratio 62

Obsidian Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2015

One of the best ways is to encourage interaction and informal learning among learners after completing WBT. Here are a few ideas: Use wikis, blogs, or even Twitter (perhaps with a unique hashtag) to build virtual communities of practice. For more ideas, see our article on informal learning in the workplace.

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Budget Compliance Training Authoring Tools Blended Learning 40

Learning with e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Further, personal devices enable individuals to gain access and to participate at many levels within their communities of practice, from ‘entering by learning’ through to ‘transcending by developing’ (Ryberg & Christiansen, 2008). 2000) Informal Workplace Learning. Practice Application Brief No.

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Theory Social Networks Digital Cognitive 103

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

Mindflash

APRIL 25, 2011

So why then are we spending so much time and effort designing and delivering formal training programs. Perhaps learning and development professionals do think about informal learning but do not really know what it is or how to implement it. Here are some practical approaches to informal learning.

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Sales Wiki Job SocialText 69

Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

People learn more in an environment that encourages conversation, so make sure you’re fostering an environment where people talk to each other. A Community of Practice (CoP) is a social network of people who identify with one another professionally (e.g. An effective community of practice is like a beehive.

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Social Networks Social Network Communities of Practice Lesson 83

TalentLMS

MAY 16, 2016

Social learning creates the much in-demand informal learning setting where learners can network, share, collaborate, and exchange ideas on problem-solving. Let’s examine some top benefits of social learning in organizations. What is Social Learning? How Social Learning Helps.

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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.

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Social Learning Social Integrate Blended Learning 176

Jay Cross

JUNE 2, 2013

Two days of the trip were paid work: One day I keynoted the Learning Innovations and Quality Conference and participated in the launch of the International Council for Open Research and Education ( ICORE ) in Rome. On another day I led a masterclass in informal learning and 702010 for a high-tech company and its customers in Utrecht.

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Communities of Practice Maslow Community Delicious 40

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

MAY 24, 2009

Over the last year or so we have talked with hundreds of companies about their desire to transform their corporate training programs to take advantage of social networking, knowledge management, communities of practice, and better models of blended learning.

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Enterprise Social Networks Blended Learning Social Network 40

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

MAY 24, 2009

Over the last year or so we have talked with hundreds of companies about their desire to transform their corporate training programs to take advantage of social networking, knowledge management, communities of practice, and better models of blended learning.

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Enterprise Social Networks Blended Learning Social Network 40

Adobe Captivate

MARCH 12, 2018

How Can Content Curation Enhance Your Existing Learning Strategy? The typical learning strategy factors for formal and informal learning. It is an effective approach to promote Informal learning in workplace. so that you can reuse information in the future. Plan for archiving.

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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

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. Communities of Practice: Hot or Not?

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Network Communities of Practice Trends Wiki 36

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. Other times, there’s a need to forecast an ROI based on participant perception of program content. Join Bob Nelson, Ph.D.,

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Free Brandon Hall Blended Learning Virtual Classroom 86

EI Design

JANUARY 28, 2020

Mobile Learning. Mobile Apps for Learning. Personalized Learning. Digitization of ILT to Blended or Fully Online Learning. Informal Learning. Social Learning. Self-Directed Learning. Section 2: Trends featuring learning strategies that deliver high impact and immersive learning experiences.

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Trends Blended Learning eLearning Strategy Corporate eLearning 52

Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

There are many books and resources available that will provide the same information you’d get in any formal program. Combine that with the easy authoring tools and rich informal learning networks available today and you’re all set. The key to success if you go this route is to continually practice your craft.

Instructional Design 84

Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Design 84

Learnnovators

MAY 10, 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.

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Social Learning Social Integrate Blended Learning 100

EI Design

AUGUST 19, 2020

You can use it to meet the entire spectrum of your training needs, including Formal training, Instant/Just-in-time learning aids, Informal learning, Self-Directed Learning, as well as Social or Collaborative Learning. eLearning Trends in 2020 – Mobile Apps for Learning.

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Trends Blended Learning Compliance Training eLearning Strategy 75

Marcia Conner

JANUARY 26, 2012

The company had no formal mailboy-training program. I just walked around for an unspecified number of days with a senior mailboy, watching and learning, asking and listening. It involves memory, synapses, endorphins, and encoding, and, more often than not, those accidental and serendipitous moments we call informal learning.

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Blended Learning Instant Messaging Simulations Virtual Classroom 70

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.

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