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How Experience API (xAPI) - Tin Can API Tracks Informal Learning

Designing Digitally

Organizations can break free of the restrictions that learning management systems dictate and release learners to experience learning beyond the classroom. Learning doesn’t need to take place solely in front of a computer screen and keyboard. The individual learner is also able to keep track of his own learning information.

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Fundamentals of Modern Instructional Design

InSync Training

Training has a great track record of successfully teaching learners during formal events, but our programs often don’t address informal learning. And we know learners build critical skills during unstructured, non-facilitated events, like Googling a term or asking Holly in HR for guidance.

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Building Informal Learning Habits

CLO Magazine

Technology and the business environment are changing so quickly, structured training has by necessity taken a back seat to informal learning as the dominant approach to workplace development. Self-Directed Informal Learning Experience alone can be an inefficient instructor. “Our company is ambitious.

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A Dozen Ways To Promote Informal Learning

CLO Magazine

Leaders can promote this activity and track it to increase development and facilitate talent management. Learning management systems and learning content management systems are the centerpiece for many learning departments, but most organizations are unaware that these systems have capabilities to support informal learning.

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Can non-formal learning be measured?

CLO Magazine

We foster formal learning through formal training, such as classes and courses. We focus on formal training because it is what we are asked to provide, it’s a tangible product, and it allows for easier tracking of pre/post-event learning and skill development. SGS Tracking. SGS Tracking. NON-FORMAL.

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The dawn of a new generation

E-Learning Provocateur

To explore the practicalities of user-generated content, the Learning Cafe sponsored a webinar entitled Learner Generated Learning Content – Possibilities, mechanics and chaos? The event was hosted by Jeevan Joshi and presented by myself, Andrew Mazurkiewicz and Cheryle Walker. What should Ron do?

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Learning Events vs Environments: A Case for Putting the Learner in the Center

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Among other things, the book mentions a study on learning effectiveness by Johns Hopkins University sociologist Karl Alexander. It has some very useful insights for professionals involved in learning initiatives in organizations. Time and again, focusing on formal learning events alone turns out to be myopic.