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Formal Training Vs. Informal Learning: Which Makes More Sense?

Mindflash

There’s been a great deal of discussion over the last few years related to informal learning. Today, just about any training magazine, website, or conference probably devotes significant time to talking about informal learning. We see this all too often in the learning and performance field.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning [My notes from a webinar. Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning … &#%!? In a disconnected learning system: Need.

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Best of informal learning since September 1, 2010…

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Informal Learning Flow. Next month, a new aggregator on Working Smarter from Internet Time Alliance , sponsored by Xyleme , will replace Informal Learning Flow. Welcome to the Decade of Games - HarvardBusiness.org , September 9, 2010. . - Learning Visions , October 15, 2010. September 1 to November 18, 2010.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Informal Learning -- Getting Learners to Ask the Right Questions

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. This got me musing on some of the issues that have been bumping around in my head as I read all the blog talk on the topic of informal learning as well as Jays book (which I have admittedly only gotten partly through).

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Theories for the digital age: Connectivism

Learning with e's

Learning in the industrialised world can now be contextualised within a largely technological landscape, where the use of digital media is assuming increasing importance. 2006) Informal Learning: Rediscovering the natural pathways that inspire innovation and performance. 2000) Informal Workplace Learning.

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#3quotes from Dewey

Learning with e's

Thus we reach the ordinary notion of education: the notion which ignores its social necessity and its identity with all human association that affects conscious life, and which identifies it with imparting information about remote matters." (p Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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5 Ways Social Learning Can Lead to an Effective Remote Onboarding Process

Obsidian Learning

But a large component of survival rests upon acquiring the skills you need to make it through life—and how better to develop those skills than to learn them from your mentors, peers, and colleagues: your social group. Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Really, not so much has changed. Unported license.