Enabling Informal Learning: Integrating Knowledge Management and Learning
Training Industry
MAY 9, 2018
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2023 ITA Jay Cross Memorial Award: Keeley Sorokti
Clark Quinn
JULY 5, 2023
The Internet Time Alliance Memorial Award , in memory of Jay Cross , is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay‘s lifetime of work. They share their work in public and often challenge conventional wisdom.
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Social Technology, Community Management & Organizational Development
Learnnovators
AUGUST 6, 2015
While I cannot profess that L&D/OD specialists can change the nature of management, I can say that well-informed and skilled professionals from this field can enable an organization to empower its employees and management to acquire those skills that will get them to use the social technologies with greater efficacy.
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6 Benefits of Informal Learning
TalentLMS
NOVEMBER 25, 2015
Perhaps the highest level of learning with the deepest cognitive impact is informal learning. It’s what we call those precious learning moments where passion and curiosity meet to break all motivation and knowledge barriers. Informal learning is a great outlet for reflective practice or experiential learning.
Informal Learning 2.0
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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Class is over; now what? Informal learning in the workplace
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. It could be knowledge gained from reading, Web searching, or from colleagues and friends. Build a Learning Culture. Pershing (Ed.),
Learning Communities List
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 21, 2008
As we are wrapping up the week for Learn Trends , one of the questions we faced was what to do with the Ning community that sprung up to support the conference. I'm pretty sure we are going to leave it up, but I'm also pretty sure that it will sit fairly dormant until the next learning event. Lots of members and discussion.
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Becoming a Social Business – Beyond Culture Change
Learnnovators
DECEMBER 13, 2015
The German word Weltanschauung —used to represent the mode of apprehending reality of a community—was first used by Kant and later popularized by Hegel. Weltanschauung represents the collective consciousness of a community of a certain experience. In this context, I had a bit of an epiphany. Let me make a disclaimer.
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Informal Learning - Harold Tells Us Where To Put It - Now What
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., Performance Interventions ** Learning Interventions Instructional Interventions (e.g.,
Sahana Chattopadhyay – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators
Learnnovators
AUGUST 19, 2015
Her work with various companies like Tata Interactive Systems, Zensar Technologies, ThoughtWorks and Future Group has given her a width of experience that spans instructional design, workplace learning strategy, knowledge management, social learning and community management, and people development.
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7 Strategies to Facilitate “Working Out Loud”
Learnnovators
JULY 6, 2015
The more I thought about it, the more it seemed to me that it is one of the fundamental blocks of building a community of practice. A community grows around a domain where practitioners share their insights, knowledge and doubts, the work processes. Explicit and tacit knowledge gets shared.
Knowledge Management Core Issues
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 20, 2006
We need practical ways to build personal informal networks. Helping groups learn from mistakes and errors, practices to carry over learnings from project to project and improve corporate memory. Open space methods, creating forums and 'Ba' for trusted exchanges, blogging and informal wikis may help.
Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009
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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132 Summer Camp starts Monday 16 July
Jane Hart
JULY 11, 2012
Our Summer Camp provides an opportunity to learn with peers and gain some of the essential skills needed to support learning in the networked world. informal learning. social learning. mobile learning. Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). online communities. We’ll be discussing.
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The Changing Nature of Workplace Learning
Learnnovators
MAY 4, 2015
While the former reflects the redesigning of workplace as a physical manifestation of this change with its focus on enabling communities and collaboration, the second one squarely focuses on empowering autonomous learning and facilitating the building of trusted networks. In theory, we know this is what will work in the long run.
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The Top Six Things Organizations Must Do to Enable Emergent Learning
Learnnovators
JANUARY 10, 2016
Mobile enabled learning accessible anytime, anywhere, on any device of the user’s choice. MOOCs which straddle the line between social learning and e-learning with learner communities. These are essentially “pull” and collaborative learning modes and cannot be imposed. Shift from networks to communities.
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100 Re-imagining Work & Learning in a Networked World
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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Demystifying Working Out Loud
Learnnovators
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Working out loud has been steadily gaining popularity and has become a topic of conversation on many forums including the Facebook community of the same name. The baby boomers are retiring taking their tacit knowledge and experience with them. I deal with sensitive information and data. Why should I post it for all to see?
MOOCs in Workplace Learning – Part 5: Skills Learners Need Today
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. The desire to reach out with the intent to learn is a mindset.
How Social Learning is Powering Up Today’s Workplaces
Learnnovators
MARCH 22, 2015
. “ Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. ” – Albert Bandura (Originator of Social Learning Theory). “ The research isn’t heartening. Here they are: Quotes.
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Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start learning
Coursy
AUGUST 26, 2022
They won't, however, be positioning themselves well for informal learning, performance support, or knowledge management. Connected specialization, modularization, and decentralization are learning foundations capable of adjusting to varied information climate changes. Tools like Furl , del.icio.us
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MOOCs in Workplace Learning – Part 3: Launching a MOOC
Learnnovators
JUNE 8, 2015
This is a continuation of my MOOC series and also a post that draws a lot from the #MSLOC430 Community and MOOC (“C” type) that I am participating in — the open section of the graduate course in the Master’s Program in Learning and Organizational Change at Northwestern University.
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27 Books for L&D Folks.
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.
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172 The differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social business
Jane Hart
AUGUST 27, 2012
A Social Business is one that embraces and cultivates a spirit of collaboration and community throughout its organization—both internally and externally.”. Training often outsourced, on-demand access to self-paced learning, f2f networking important, facilitated collaborative/peer-learning available in the workflow.
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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff
ID Reflections
AUGUST 28, 2012
Technology —is great for exchange of information, updates and other transactional stuff. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. Ever since I started working primarily from home, I realized (even more so than before) the importance of online communities—within my organization and without.
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MOOCS IN WORKPLACE LEARNING – PART 3: LAUNCHING A MOOC
Learnnovators
JUNE 8, 2015
This is a continuation of my MOOC series and also a post that draws a lot from the #MSLOC430 Community and MOOC (“C” type) that I am participating in — the open section of the graduate course in the Master’s Program in Learning and Organizational Change at Northwestern University. The central term in this definition is connections.
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LEARNNOVATORS GAZES INTO THE FUTURE OF E-LEARNING WITH SAHANA CHATTOPADHYAY
Learnnovators
AUGUST 19, 2015
Her work with various companies like Tata Interactive Systems, Zensar Technologies, ThoughtWorks and Future Group has given her a width of experience that spans instructional design, workplace learning strategy, knowledge management, social learning and community management, and people development.
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MOOCS IN WORKPLACE LEARNING – PART 5: SKILLS LEARNERS NEED TODAY
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. The desire to reach out with the intent to learn is a mindset.
Future of Learning Technology – 2015
Upside Learning
MAY 7, 2010
It is governed by community law and it’s an astronomical number as more people join the community. Emergence of social media (and reviewed focus on social and informal learning). Mobiles will become the platform of choice for workplace learning delivery (or learning/knowledge management system access).
Integrating Social Learning In The Workplace
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. Social learning has become a buzzword in the workplace learning space, and every other organization is claiming to have “social learning” as a part of the mix.
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176 How to Improve Learning Outcomes With Performance Support
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.
Revisiting My Learning Journey on Social Media
ID Reflections
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
I got to learn from the experts – individuals who were charting the path and devising ways to use the tool as an avenue for learning, sharing and innovating – building a strong global community of learning professionals. Sometime later, I stumbled on to my first ever online learning community, #lrnchat.
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144 HOW SOCIAL LEARNING IS POWERING UP TODAY’S WORKPLACES
Learnnovators
MARCH 21, 2015
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Social tools leave a digital audit trail, documenting our learning journey—often an unfolding story—and leaving a path for others to follow.” ? Here they are: Quotes.
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THE CHANGING NATURE OF WORKPLACE LEARNING
Learnnovators
MAY 3, 2015
While the former reflects the redesigning of workplace as a physical manifestation of this change with its focus on enabling communities and collaboration, the second one squarely focuses on empowering autonomous learning and facilitating the building of trusted networks. IMHO, L&D and HR have to work together–very very closely.
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Getting Started With Working Out Loud
Learnnovators
JUNE 29, 2015
While “social learning” as a phrase, concept and strategy is fairly well-known by now, the concept of “working out loud” hasn’t yet garnered that level of popularity. When my comment drew that blank stare, I thought it would be a worthwhile topic for a short blog post.
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Pick of the Month: August 2012
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 1, 2012
The month started with a survey, reported in Social Business News, that showed that Professionals spend 40% of their time in online peer communities. “The study surveyed 300 professionals and found that by far the most frequent use of social media amongst professionals was interacting with their peers in professional communities .
The best elearning reads of 2013
eFront
DECEMBER 31, 2013
Cognitive Dissonance and the Denial of Social/Informal Learning , Mike Britz. Learning technology: are we using it right? Conferences Need To Focus More On Learning Design And Less On Information Transfer , Jeff Hurt. Research in the digital age, it’s more than finding information , Scientific American.
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111 The Social Learning Revolution in eLearning
TalentLMS
MAY 16, 2016
The boom in social media and the round-the-clock need to connect in communities is doing wonders for the eLearning industry. Social learning is an age-old learning and teaching strategy, backed by many cognitive scientists. Let’s examine some top benefits of social learning in organizations. What is Social Learning? .
INTEGRATING SOCIAL LEARNING IN THE WORKPLACE
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. Social learning has become a buzzword in the workplace learning space, and every other organization is claiming to have “social learning” as a part of the mix.
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Yammer for internal knowledge sharing for health care and policy making
Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning
MARCH 4, 2012
38% of our time we spend looking for information and Yammer can reduce that time span. But nice to see the examples of various uses of Yammer and how it has opened up knowledge in organisations and made it accessible, through the use of a social approach. At Rijkswaterstaat there is a community manager.
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163 4 Ways L&D Can Maximize Learning Technology for Hyper-Connected Learners
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.
Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does!
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Any learning outside training is not of any significance of interest to us. Learning only takes place in a classroom or in a course delivered from our LMS, where we monitor and track it. We value informal learning and want to support people learn continuously – in the workflow. Encourage & Engage.
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216 LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I'm particularly looking forward to discussions around: How information services and enterprise 2.0 are intersecting with Learning / eLearning? How and where do networks and communities fit in? Innovation Awards - The conference will also include the LearnTrends Innovation Awards 2009. Please see that post for details.
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100 Summarizing Learn for Yourself
Jay Cross
MARCH 29, 2015
Sharing is an act of learning and can be considered your responsibility for the greater social learning contract. Not only does it confirm the significant frequency of informal learning, it demonstrates that informal learning shows up in many ways: e-Learning, traditional book study, social learning, and experience.”
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