Sticky Learning

AUGUST 4, 2009

I just twittered a thought - 'The benefit of Informal learning is that fish are the last to recognise water' - and then I started thinking. This is the real essence of informal learning. So what does this mean for workplace learning? design informal learning opportunities to meet the development needs of workers.

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Sticky Learning

MAY 12, 2010

Now I won't give a run down on every session I attended but instead will walk you through my 5 favourite keynotes/workshops and give you an overview of my impressions and the key lessons/ideas I walked away with. I write a blog, use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc but what did I know about Social Media really? Fat Chance. Mag-a-holic.

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The Learning Circuits

MARCH 1, 2011

For March the LCBQ is: How do you assess whether your informal learning, social learning, continuous learning, performance support initiatives have the desired impact or achieve the desired results? So, it should look like: Tony Karrer - e-Learning 2.0 We'd love to hear examples.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

OCTOBER 20, 2009

While Robert writes of informal learning, learning 2.0, education, and training; I'm going to stick with informal learning in the workplace to help keep this post more focused. First, there seems to be some confusion as to the origin of the term "informal learning" by both the poster and commentators.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 2, 2008

. :) There are some interesting thoughts in the post, but also Most learning professionals can only do so much. There's a vacuum of leadership in the adoption of enterprise/web/learning 2.0 tools from learning professionals in senior positions and too many barriers put up by over-zealous HR and IT departments.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 2, 2008

. :) There are some interesting thoughts in the post, but also Most learning professionals can only do so much. There's a vacuum of leadership in the adoption of enterprise/web/learning 2.0 tools from learning professionals in senior positions and too many barriers put up by over-zealous HR and IT departments.

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Sticky Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

It is really an expansion of the design section from the original book, adding a good deal of extra information and ideas along the way. The power of story telling in learning is enormous, we all tend to remember information when its woven into a meaningful and engaging story. Change by Design - Tim Brown.

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 4, 2009

The Business Case for Measurement of Learning. Your Social Learning System As A Profit Center. Better Than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning With Power Point. The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. Designing a Virtual Immersive Environment for Learning?

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Sticky Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Over the last 4-5 years I have seen and heard so much about new technologies, elearning, informal learning and so forth. BUT I see businesses introducing 'click, click, click' 'powerpoint-style' elearning and believing that this means that their learning is 'modern'. Social media is seen as a 'fad'. Powerpoint Web 2.0

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Vignettes Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

As the listeners tell their stories, they are embedding the ideas in their minds and in their lives. In turn, the storyteller has learned from the listener. This is the crux of informal learning, which accounts for a lot of the way people learn. At the heart of Web 2.0 e-Learning Strategy e-Learning.

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Sticky Learning

JULY 21, 2009

In an earlier post on Informal Learning I made the observation that social networks allow people to create their own villages of learning. Even when a visitor brought new ideas, this new knowledge was shared amongst the group. Schools, universities and formal learning have been undoubted successes.

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eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Five New Influences on the Future of Learning Technologies <!–( Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning <!–( Applying Blended Solutions In Your E-Learning; Workshop Presenter: Ray Jimenez <! Increasing Virtual Learning And Webinar Effectiveness With Your Social Learning System <!–(

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Jay Cross

APRIL 12, 2008

Last night I went online to write a few pages of the Informal Learning 2.0 Soon I had a dozen tabs open on Firefox: a list of corporate social media evangelists, Nature magazine (archives back to 1869!), Like the pioneering Whole Earth Catalog, the Informal Learning 2.0 The Informal Learning 2.0

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ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2009

I have pasted the question here: "In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?" Learning Skills.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 13, 2009

So, here's the hot list for April 1 - April 11 via eLearning Learning. Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. Find out more.Tags: nonformal learning workplace learning organizational learning non-formal learning definition of learning organizational development informal learning.

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eLearning Development

APRIL 15, 2008

Positioning Your Career in Social Networking and Collaborative Learning. He also gave us several new job titles like Collaborative Learning Anthropologist. His point was that social networking is all about people, not about technologies. Learning 2.0: Conceptually, I think it’s a cool idea.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

And I feel honored that social signals came in granting my post on eLearning Strategy top spot. Understanding the Tools of the Social Learning Landscape - Free as in Freedom , November 2, 2010I am with Mark Oelhert this morning in his all day workshop about the tools of the Social Learning Landscape.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Best of eLearning Learning. Online Learning Technologies–Past, Present, and Future. Implementing Social Media: Beyond The Hype. Why The Death Of The Newspaper Industry Should Scare The Hell Out Of The Learning Industry. Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning. Random Web 2.0

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eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Growing Your Business - Innovative Marketing Using Social Media <!–( The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. Learning Strategies You Can Use - Road to Learning , September 9, 2009. Business applications of Twitter - E-learning in the Corporate Sector , September 3, 2009.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 8, 2008

In the Learning Circuits Blog , Tony Karrer poses a whole series of questions related to the role of learning and development professionals in promoting informal learning / social learning / learning 2.0 within organisations: Q: Must learning professionals be literate in these things?

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Informal Learning 2.0. Networked organizations are reaping rewards for connecting people, know-how and ideas at an ever-faster pace. Value creation has migrated from what we can see (physical assets) to intangibles (ideas). C orporations are flocking to eLearning for all the wrong reasons. Look at Google and Cisco.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 2, 2010

Provided marketing and distribution advice to half a dozen web 2.0 Learning is Not Enough. Began to embrace idea that Learning is not enough. “Learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for working smarter. Dictionaries define learning as acquiring knowledge and skills. Informal Learning 2.0.

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Vignettes Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2007

These are some Web 2.0-like If added or incorporated, these tools help learners use LMS content as a resource for sharing ideas in networks and communities. like tools in LMSs. See how they work: Google-like search - allows learners to search ALL text in the LMS content. Notes can be searched. like tools.

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eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Best of eLearning Learning. The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. The Org Structure of Enterprise 2.0 - trainingwreck , April 18, 2010 I’m lucky to be a member of the 2.0 Should they be coupled with your LMS or other learning-specific tools? Budgeting for Learning 2.0:

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Vignettes Learning

APRIL 7, 2011

The ultimate test is how well they apply the ideas on the spot. Train learners on the essentials and let them learn how to find solutions One large online retailer I worked with, reduced their two weeks on-boarding training to two days. This understanding of the learner’s wisdom is the foundation of social and informal learning.

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Sticky Learning

OCTOBER 11, 2009

My thoughts went a bit like this.just as the dam levels don't immediate respond to rain, employee behaviour or business results don't immediately change after learning either.just as there is a lag between rain and water storage, there is also a lag between learning input and behaviour/results output. Avoid learning droughts!

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Who is to say individuals cannot adjust into a lean-back mode when they are e-learning? E-learning: an oxymoron? Ideas are important, but they need to be backed up by concrete examples; they also need to be thoroughly explored to ensure their validity and their relevance. The argument for blended learning.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2006

I was invited to speak on some aspect of online learning and was pleased to accept on the basis that, although I had no idea what Online Educa was all about, I had never been to Berlin. I've learned a lot from the more enlightened uses of e-learning in further and higher education and I've applied it to my models for learning at work.

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Vignettes Learning

JULY 27, 2009

The event was about challenges and opportunities in the learning industry. There were many great ideas on trends and how to find a business model that will sustain the business of learning. Helping Learners Learn Their Way" "Helping Learners Apply Learning" Ray Jimenez, PhD Author "3-Minute e-Learning" www.vignettestraining.com.

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eLearning Learning Posts

JUNE 9, 2010

A Defense of the LMS (and a case for the future of Social Learning) - Social Enterprise Blog , May 12, 2010 For some time now, I’ve seen a growing negativity toward LMS solutions by a pretty wide group folks in our space. Not because they are wrong about social, but because they get so little right about LMS.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

In today’s world, that means trusting workers to learn for themselves. Learning is mobile. Skim through the following ideas from several dozen DevLearn speakers. Social/informal learning is crossing the chasm to mainstream acceptance. Without a doubt, Web 2.0 Learning 2.0 Lance Dublin.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 17, 2011

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more.

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Xyleme

APRIL 8, 2009

Home > Industry Talk > Learning Pulse Learning Pulse April 8th, 2009 Goto comments Leave a comment Jay Cross has started a conversation on the Future of Organizational Learning and Development. Great ideas have been shared so far. Blended learning, Talent management and Learning 2.0

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Sticky Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

In my previous post I asked the question, 'Is Autonomous Learning the same as Informal Learning?' I'd been reading Daniel Pink's new book Drive and my mind had turned to thinking about autonomy, learning and motivation. When I think of learning in structured settings I see learning that includes: assessable outcomes.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

A: The field is so focused on efficiency that MOOCs seem like an obvious idea. Social Media: An Interview STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012. Negating the learner in the learning process GEORGE SIEMENS | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2013. Social Artists, Connecting the Dots and Steve. MOOCs for the win!

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Vignettes Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Just to kick-off our conversations and provide us some perspective, review this information and ask the provocative questions. Let us exchange ideas, share our thoughts, and learn from each other. Learning organizations are increasing spending on technology. and e-Learning 2.0 to e-Learning 2.0

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

I announced the Informal Learning 2.0 Ideas and relationships are more valuable than tangible assets. Information spreading through network connections empowers workers to make decisions and take responsibility for them. Learnscapes : where informal learning and knowledge work converge.

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