Jane Hart

MARCH 11, 2013

In the first post I explained that “packaging learning” involves organizing and wrapping up everything an individual needs to learn in a neat parcel, delivering it to them on a plate, and making sure they do it, whilst “scaffolding” is about supporting learning in many other less top-down organized ways.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 4, 2012

So one approach that I have been promoting is, instead of thinking of Formal and Informal Leaning as polar opposites, rather to think in terms of a Social Workplace Learning Continuum (as shown diagrammatically in the image on the right). But in order to support the full SWL Continuum, there are 5 points to take on board.

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Performance Support Social Support eLearning Guild 210

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

TalentLMS

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Cognitive Apprenticeships and communities of practice also go hand-in-hand with situated cognition. Below you’ll find 4 best practices and 5 tips that can help you integrate situated cognition into your eLearning strategy. 4 Situated Cognition Best Practices. Expert support.

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Cognitive eLearning Strategy Simulations Case Study 48

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 19, 2010

Jay Cross is CEO of Internet Time Group and a thought leader in informal learning and organizational performance. In his 2001 book Kitchen Confidential , Anthony Bourdain describes how he became a professional chef and how he continues to support the community of professional chefs. Tags: Informal Learning.

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Communities of Practice Community Confidentiality Mentoring 52

LearningGuild

JANUARY 15, 2012

A key activity for learning and development groups is supporting the growth and effectiveness of. informal and collaborative learning among employees or members of a community of practice. Social and mobile technologies are essential to success, as this case study illustrates. essential (and inspiring) reading for all!

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Communities of Practice Case Study Community Collaborative Learning 76

Jane Hart

AUGUST 31, 2012

I am often asked how to support social collaboration in the workplace. 2 – recognising that most learning already happens in the workplace – informally and socially – as people connect and work with one another – as well as outside the organisation in their professional networks.

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Docebo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This becomes a major issue when SMEs make up over 70% of most supply chains and have fewer resources to access sustainability knowledge—creating a disparity between the haves and the have-nots in building informed sustainable strategies. says Mark Sugden, VP of Community of Practice.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

There’s been such a division between formal and informal; the fight for resources, mindspace, and the ability for people to get their mind around making informal concrete. We’re developed in communities of practice, with our learning distributed across time and across resources.

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Informal Pedagogy Communities of Practice Network 158

Jay Cross

JUNE 13, 2012

Next month I’ll be offering an experiential workshop on Informal Learning through Jane Hart’s Social Learning Center. Form an on-going community of practice. By the close of the workshop, you will be able to… understand what informal learning is, how it works, why it’s important. with Jay Cross.

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Informal Learning Informal Communities of Practice Learning 66

Matrix

AUGUST 5, 2021

To counteract that, it’s important to build communities of practice. Even if it takes effort and excellent organizational skills to set up communities of practice for geographically dispersed employees, the benefits are worth it. Read more: The differences between social professional networks and communities of practice.

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Blended Learning Blended Communities of Practice Community 97

Clark Quinn

JANUARY 15, 2019

I’ve argued that the community of practice should determine the curriculum to be a member of that community. Similarly, the resources to support progression in the community should come from the community, both within and outside the organization. ” Count me skeptical.

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Community Communities of Practice Learning Objects Trust 154

Clark Quinn

MAY 12, 2020

If, of course, we extend L&D to support informal learning (and I suggest we should ), there’s another opportunity. Until schools also develop effective communication and collaboration skills, L&D would be useful. There’s the further issue of creating a learning culture, too, where people share and cooperate.

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Communities of Practice Community Roles Alternatives 222

Jay Cross

AUGUST 2, 2013

Your organization has decided to tilt in the direction of informal learning. Masterclass for L&D managers, instructional designers, and senior instructors on the concept and implementation of informal learning. Introduction to informal learning. A dive into 70:20:10 as an example of informal, experiential learning.

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Informal Learning Informal SAP Internet 70

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. The challenge is supporting and encouraging learning as it occurs on a day-to-day basis, well beyond the formal curriculum. This is what they have always done and this is what others expect them to be doing.

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Performance Support Saba Support Blended Learning 95

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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Web Courseworks

JULY 16, 2019

If you are a professional instructional designer or online course developer, you probably belong to the community of practice called the eLearning Guild. They have their regular speaker experts and their annual conferences, and they have their industry vendors who help support the community. “Street” Cred.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

In the context of this post, PLN stands for Personal Learning Network , and CoP stands for Communities of Practice. PLNs have been described as informal networks of people one specifically interacts with within their personal learning environments. The domain needs to be shared, and it needs to be formalised. Unported License.

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Communities of Practice Social Media Community License 108

Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

They’ll give out wrong information. Communities emerge. and then figuring out how to best support them.” Communities of practice will continue to grow as knowledge artisans need to integrate their work and learning in a trusted space. They’ll talk about problems. They’ll talk about solutions. They’ll gripe.

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Social Learning Social Communities of Practice Community 120

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. . Communicate clearly and often – Do not assume that in this age of email, cell phones, text messaging, and Web conferencing, people are getting the information they need.

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

We can shed our obsession with isolated formal learning and embrace the real question: how can we best support organisations and individuals to develop a culture of continuous learning and high performance. SUPPORT AN ENGAGED, GROWTH MINDSET. SUPPORT REFLECTION. “ That’s where learning ecosystems come in.

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 12, 2018

Today, information access is immediate, but we end up spending a lot of time sourcing the right information we need. Today, the Internet provides access to information in seconds. The typical learning strategy factors for formal and informal learning. It is an effective approach to promote Informal learning in workplace.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 5, 2012

training) and informal learning experiences (e.g., communities of practice). An integral part of everything that is done in the organization, supported by technology and social networks. Managed by learning professionals who facilitate both formal and informal learning experiences.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 17, 2015

There are three layers: work teams composed of members from different communities of practice, that are connected outward to broader social networks. An important element is the flow of information within the model; ensuring that there are no barriers to making effective choices. As always, so what am I forgetting?

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Social Networks Communities of Practice Community Policies 100

Jane Hart

JANUARY 27, 2012

These “programmes” will use a very informal, social, collaborative approach: there will be no formal classes and no monitoring/management of your learning in a LMS. How social media is impacting the way that we work and learn in the workplace, and how L&D can support learning more widely in their organisations.

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Avilar

MAY 18, 2022

Remote and hybrid work does not lend itself to creating informal connections and relationships with others at work. Harvard Business Review identified these area as needing the most attention: Communication. Model connecting socially with others in the digital working world – and support and reward employees who do the same.

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Teams Skills Management Leadership 92

CLO Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2014

Key performance indicators for social and informal learning identify knowledge hubs and lead to better results. Where the changes show up is in the data points companies analyze in conjunction with social and informal learning. KPIs for social and informal learning should examine: • How many people use the system.

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Informal Learning Social Informal Brandon Hall 64

Living in Learning

JULY 12, 2009

When and where we support the performer becomes a crucial design consideration. When key learning environment attributes are considered, the end product of our design efforts – Performer Support – can take many forms. What I am suggesting is re-use of PSOs in both formal training venues and in informal Performer Support venues.

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Performance Support Agile Support Performance 100

Adobe Captivate

APRIL 22, 2019

So much of what we learn comes from informal interactions with the people we know, whether we’re interacting in person or through social media. Sometimes we instead help learners connect with people who can support their learning experience.

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Voice Social Learning Blended Learning Social 53

Clark Quinn

MARCH 6, 2012

As you might expect, I mentioned that it’s a framework for thinking august supporting people at work, but it also occurred to me that there might be a reason folks have not addressed the 90, because, in the past, there might have been little that they could do. Together, we can be supporting the 90 in fairly rich ways.

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Social Networks Wiki Mentoring Coaching 185

Kapp Notes

APRIL 29, 2011

The ICT Center is recognized nationally as a leader for its expertise in developing and distributing comprehensive ICT content supporting business and industry’s efforts to educate and train their ICT workforce.

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Classroom Mobile Develop Communities of Practice 177

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 16, 2013

I’d expect to see more performance support, easily accessible via user-centric portals and search and delivered when and where needed. Employees would be tightly coupled to their work teams, and more loosely coupled to their communities of practice. Teams would be diverse and flexible, and group work would be the norm.

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Change Performance Support Diversity Training Communities of Practice 173

Obsidian Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

When you’re designing learning, don’t overlook the importance of informal learning. In fact, we typically learn more from informal learning than from formal learning experiences. Here are a few ideas for encouraging informal learning in the workplace. Informal learning in the workplace appeared first on Obsidian Learning.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

How do you use social learning to support formal learning? Dirty Words: Training, Learner, eLearning, Informal, Social, School, Learning What is the role of L&D specialists in working smarter? Companies are outsourcing their course development so internal L&D can focus on communicating and connecting.

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eLearning Guild Social Learning Social Metrics 208

TalentLMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

No information on what would happen next? And would it be possible to cram all company information, its culture, business processes and unique individuals into the new hire, in one day? All we wanted was the right information at the right time without asking around too much. Employees need information at their fingertips.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 11, 2016

Indeed this observation doesn’t boast a wealth of empirical evidence to support it, although there is some – see here , here and here. After all, plenty of research can be cited to support the efficacy of on-the-job learning, social learning and formal training. These can form part of the assessment.

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Wiki Communities of Practice Poll Instructional Design 100

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

JUNE 3, 2010

Keeping the Wheels Turning: The Dynamics of Managing Networks of Practice. Journal of Management Studies, 47(1), 85-108 The authors make a distinction between NoPs and CoPs; networks of practice and communities of practice. Managers should support and energize communities, not neglect and ignore them.

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Network Management Communities of Practice Community 151