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The Importance of Informal Learning at the Workplace

Origin Learning

Earlier blog posts have stressed on how workplace learning has evolved over the years and L&D managers are re-inventing the wheel to meet the demands of the ‘millennial audience’. In this blog post, we examine ‘informal learning’ and see how it can play a major role in modern workplace learning.

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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Textbooks, blackboards, and overhead projectors remain the tools of choice for many teachers, at a time when their students are geared to learn from iPads, PowerPoint, and instant messaging. The result is a lost message, and a lost opportunity. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS?

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Bob Mosher: Performance Support and Learning at the Moment of Need #ls2010

Learning Visions

Informal Learning “What’s in a name?” Informal sounds optional. She says “call it performance support and not informal, cuz you can’t get a CFO to pay for informal learning.” Bob’s list of favorites: Job aids CoPs (wikis, blogs, forums) learning portal reference materials…. Are they a better worker?

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Social Learning Theory: What Is It & Its Importance in Workplace Training

Instancy

But that doesn’t mean socializing or learning through social interactions will stop as well. Social learning can still exist over a learning management system where informal learning and information flow will continue to flourish. How to Adopt Social Learning in the Workplace?

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Building a Performance Ecosystem

CLO Magazine

Learning leaders should facilitate this learning to optimize outcomes. A coherent organization is one with a seamless segue from formal to informal learning, where individuals are aligned with the organizational mission and information flows from outside to in and back out again in ways that accelerate work.

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Working Smarter eFieldbook $12

Jay Cross

A workscape is a platform where knowledge workers collaborate, solve problems, converse, share ideas, brainstorm, learn, relate to others, talk, explain, communicate, conceptualize, tell stories, help one another, teach, serve customers, keep up to date, meet one another, forge partnerships, build communities, and distribute information.