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Evaluating Informal Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Informal learning in organizations is finally being recognized as a key aspect of employee development and performance improvement. But how do you evaluate something that is as unpredictable and serendipitous as informal learning? How do you measure the impact of informal learning experiences?

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Formal Learning vs. Informal Learning

Learningtogo

In this post, we’ll distinguish between informal and formal learning and explore ways to identify and encourage informal learning within your organization. What is informal learning? Cross defined informal learning as “personal, social […] unofficial, unscheduled, [and] impromptu.”

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Formalizing informal learning?

Clark Quinn

The Entreprise Collaborative has a new question , asking whether we can formalize informal learning. To me, it’s not about formalizing informal learning so much as explicitly supporting it versus ignoring it. Like the proverbial ’stuff’, informal learning happens. I see two roles.

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Online Tools for Evaluating Informal Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

She also suggests apps that can be used to log and document experiences and reactions to experiences on a mobile device (smart phone, iPad, etc.). New technologies are offering many useful ways of monitoring and assessing the impact of “informallearning. . These evaluation tools could easily be applied in work settings.

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Measuring Project Success: Thoughts for the Training Professional.

Dashe & Thomson

The ISO 9000 compliance team cries “success” if the documentation is complete. And by that I mean, documentation, documentation, documentation. And make sure it is documented and clearly understood how to escalate those issues up the chain of command, if you have to. Preparation, preparation, preparation.

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Training Delivery Strategies—How to Incorporate Feedback

Infopro Learning

Online learning still offers interactive and engaging training and often with simulated environments for employees performing high-risk tasks. Virtual classrooms allow businesses to deliver training in text, video, and documents in real-time. And last but not least is blended learning.

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MANAGING INFORMATION OVERLOAD

Learnnovators

We often think of tasks in terms of actions than their significance: Before going through 50 documents on a project, it helps to build clarity about what we’re expecting to do with each document – we’re going to skim through one, read another in-depth, get a summarized understanding of the third, note the highlights of the fourth, etc.