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Official description: Microlearning: Beyond Learning Objects and Just-in-time Performance Support. The need and pressure to learn continually, coupled with limited time available to learn, make new digital media viable for professional development. Let’s discuss how microlearning might address the realities of learning in a digital age. Specifically focusing on OTJ skills & knowledge. Basic goal: make learning more effective through new media. MORE
There has been a lot of talk about formal vs. informal learning in the educational blogosphere and when it comes right down to it, formal learning is the most effective. When lives are on the line, the learning process is studied, calculated and formalized to a degree of realism as close to 100% as possible. The processes have been formalized, in knowledge work, many of the processes are formalized. Realistic, formal learning events make a difference. MORE
To my way of thinking, this is the convergence of knowledge work and informal learning that I’ve been trying to promote. Can Cisco-style collaboration really work outside of Cisco? How Cisco’s CEO John Chambers is Turning the Tech Giant Socialist , by: Ellen McGirt. MORE
ABOUT CHARLES JENNINGS (Managing Director, Duntroon Associates): Charles Jennings is a leading thinker, practitioner and consultant in the areas of performance improvement, change management, and learning. From 2002 until the end of 2008, Charles was the Chief Learning Officer for Reuters and Thomson Reuters where he had responsibility for developing the global learning and performance strategy and leading the learning organisation for the firm’s 55,000 workforce. MORE
I’m still working on my yearly post that is my eLearning Predictions. Here’s the information: Ten eLearning Predictions for 2010 To kick off the new year, Dr. Tony Karrer is sharing some thoughts on what's going to be happening in the world of eLearning in 2010. and it's long term impact on workplace learning. It is being hosted by the local DC Chapter of ASTD’s Technology Learning Group. s impact on knowledge work and workplace learning. MORE
The Big Question for May is Learning Technology 2015 – it asks what we expect workplace learning technologies to look like in 2015. We are already seeing this in terms of lots of startups aimed at particular elements of knowledge work. tools designed to support learning? Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs MORE
Better yet, go take a look at: Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee Better Questions for Learning Professionals Continuing Thoughts on Questions What Questions Should We be Asking? Session Hopping a Practical Guide General Session - New Work Literacies and E-Learning 2.0 These changes are continuously transforming the landscape for knowledge work. As learning professionals, we have an opportunity to take a leading role. Learning 2.0 MORE
In my presentation yesterday, I was talking about how to get informal learning going. The point, however, is from the point of the view of the learner, all the resources needed are ‘to hand’ through every stage of knowledge work. Courses, information resources, people, representational tools, the ability to tap into the 4 C’s (create, contextualize, connect, co-create). Weed : you may have to help people learn how to participate. MORE
The July issue of Chief Learning Officer is now available online. It features an article in which Jon Husband and I delve into how to measure the impact of learning in the network era. Understandably, seasoned executives, chief learning officers among them, are having a devil of a time shifting from the industrial age mindset of logic, certainty and bounded constraints to the network gestalt of interaction, self-organization, unpredictability and fewer limits to potential. MORE
T oday CLO magazine’s Deanne Hartley interviewed me for an upcoming story about micro-learning. People naturally learn in small chunks. On the way home from the Swiss eLearning Conference, my mind was racing after three days of talking with interesting people and spreading the informal learning gospel. Not quite micro-learning, but a step in that direction. In time, the words will migrate into the Working Smarter unbook. MORE
People learn their jobs by doing their jobs. These posts offer guidance to managers who want to make learning from experience and conversation more effective. Replacing today’s haphazard approaches with systematic, enlightened management accelerates the development of future workers and gets the entire organization working smarter. Convergence of work and learning. Work and learning have merged. We learn on the job to do the job. MORE
Someone was just asking me about the big trends in learning and the implications of those trends on corporate learning and development. So, here's a bit of a compilation of some of the things I've been talking about in my blog which points to some of the major trends in learning. And the risk is pretty severe as described in the Business of Learning. Training Method Trends suggests that social learning tools are beginning to take off. vs. Learning 2.0, MORE
To my way of thinking, this is the convergence of knowledge work and informal learning that I’ve been trying to promote. Can Cisco-style collaboration really work outside of Cisco? How Cisco’s CEO John Chambers is Turning the Tech Giant Socialist , by: Ellen McGirt. MORE
The Big Question this month is Workplace Learning in 10 Years : If you peer inside an organization in 10 years time and you look at how workplace learning is being supported by that organization, what will you see? What will the mix of Push vs. Pull Learning; Formal vs. Informal supported by the organization? What new departments will be responsible for parts of workplace learning? Who in an organization is responsible for supporting and improving work? MORE
This isn’t news: things are moving faster, we’re having less resources available, our competition is more agile, the amount of relevant information is increasing, customers are more aware, the list goes on. Not surprisingly for regular readers, I think that the nature of work is changing. learn from mistakes. In essence, to do the important work faster. The fact is, our brains are really good at pattern matching, and bad at rote work. MORE
Most trainers, both formal and informal, have the same goal: to make learning that sticks. There are tons of roadblocks that come up when you’re trying to get other people to absorb information, especially if you’re not the subject matter expert. In this post, we examine ten pain points that video training addresses – the first of which is the time and money spent on face-to-face learning for repetitive tasks. Problem #6: I work with smart people. MORE
Next year, I intend to start making the world a better place, and that’s going to take more oomph, focus, and work with others. Staying Alive appears in Link&Learn eNewsletter. Time to Change Centuries appears in Inside Learning Technologies. Keynoted Learning Technologies 2008 in London. Topic: Learning — All Change. I announced the Informal Learning 2.0 Knowledge workers have replaced factory workers. MORE
ABOUT CHARLES JENNINGS (Managing Director, Duntroon Associates): Charles Jennings is a leading thinker, practitioner and consultant in the areas of performance improvement, change management, and learning. From 2002 until the end of 2008, Charles was the Chief Learning Officer for Reuters and Thomson Reuters where he had responsibility for developing the global learning and performance strategy and leading the learning organisation for the firm’s 55,000 workforce. MORE
Best of eLearning Learning. 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. LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009 How to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. New Skills for Learning Professionals - The Learning Circuits Blog , July 1, 2009. MORE
Using eLearning Learning , I thought it would be interesting to go look what it thinks are some of the top items of all time. Learning 2.0 - The Things How we read online. - Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers Web 2.0 Applications in Learning Rethinking Learning Styles Understanding E-Learning 2.0 MORE
Jay Cross examines decision making on learning at work, and gives the lie to some myths about the use of business metrics. It is equally vital to understand that different officers of your corporation will approach decisions about learning in very different ways depending on their circumstances. Every business decision is made with less than perfect information, and every decision entails taking a risk. Knowledge Workers. There’s more and more to learn. MORE
MacWorld : learning infrastructure and social network infrastructure are converging. I was coincidentally walking by a presentation by Clive Shepherd on the exhibits floor at Learning Technologies in London when he happened to flip my photo and a quote on the screen. Donald Clark, Charles Jennings, and I gave the closing keynote, Learning for Tomorrow, What a Difference a Decade Makes ( pdf , mp3 , mp4 ). All of our energies will go into peer-to-peer, self-service learning. MORE
Things are moving faster, and this has all sorts of consequences: it means that change is occurring more frequently, information is doubling, our competition is more aggressive, and more. In short, we have to move away from depending on formal learning to be able to cope, and we need a new solution. Instead, we need to make sure everyone understands what the overall goal is, and have them work together to achieve it. Who is responsible for ensuring this works? MORE
Mostly, business as usual at work and crisis situations at home took my time and attention. Because I love what I do (and I am hugely fortunate in that sense), it’s very easy to let my work consume me and my time. Much has been written about priorities and work life balance — especially for women. To strike a work-life balance, work from home as much as possible (most of the time). This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself. MORE
To bring learning opportunities to your workforce you’re going to have to look beyond the confines of the conference room for informal learning. Continue Reading → The post Is informal learning this year’s L&D Fortnight? appeared first on E-Learning Curve Blog. MORE
Published in Chief Learning Officer, August 2009. Informal Learning 2.0. Corporate approaches to learning have to change, as well. Until the shift from industrial to network dominance, corporations could compensate for crummy learning by hiring experienced people and managing ingenious command-and-control structures. Organizations that don’t learn can’t keep up. It’s learn or die. Increasing customer loyalty though learning. MORE
Organizations are facing increasing disruptions, more information is available, and new technologies are making it easier and faster to compete. Provided that learning and development leaders could and should have a central role in innovation, what is the chief learning officer’s responsibility? And this is contrary to much of the working world where interaction is kept to a necessary minimum, time is to be spent on work tasks and mistakes are punished. MORE
To bring learning opportunities to your workforce you’re going to have to look beyond the confines of the conference room for informal learning. Continue Reading → The post Is informal learning this year’s L&D Fortnite? appeared first on E-Learning Curve Blog. MORE
Yesterday, in my first posting on this topic, I showed how “social learning” is not just about a new training trend or about adding social media into the “blend&# or acquiring the latest Social Learning Management System, but a fundamental change in how we need to view workplace learning. Let’s first take a look at managing and measuring employee “learning&#. So how then do we measure learning in the workplace? MORE
Point your smart phone at a QR code, and you’ll be led to a location on the net with more information. In this 2011 edition, we added a more lucid description of workscapes, streamlined the social learning chapter, updated the cheat sheets, and included a glossary. Working smarter is the key to sustainability and continuous improvement. Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable. Why isn’t Sally at work today? MORE
It’s always fun at the end of the year to go back and take a look at what you’ve been working on, what you’ve learned during the year. In June 2008, Work Literacy Launched. I’m convinced that we are all struggling to have our Work Skills Keep Up. During the year, I’ve had fantastic conversations through LearnTrends around SharePoint , Examples and Tour of Different Kinds of eLearning , Social Learning , and the Business of Learning. Learning Event? MORE
Just got through reading - Long Live Instructor-Led Learning - by Saul Carliner, who is a person I know, like and respect. His article included citations with links, but included no links to the Learning Circuits Blog , nor to the post Workplace Learning in 10 Years that he discusses, nor to any of the individual responses several by well known and respect people from the industry. Tony Karrer Formal learning will still be going strong but somewhat de-emphasised. MORE
Sharing 50 suggestions on putting 70-20-10 to work has consumed five posts spread over two months. Post 1 People learn their jobs by doing their jobs. Knowledge work has evolved into keeping up and taking advantage of connections. We learn to do the job on the job. To stay ahead and create more value, you have to learn faster, better, smarter. He is the world authority on 70:20:10 and these posts draw heavily on his work.). Learning is social. MORE
Thus, right from our school days, we are “trained” to provide the right answers else our grades suffered, entry to sought-after colleges/institutions were blocked.After that, once you enter the “ jobosphere ” of the corporate world and start your work life, the likelihood is that you will come across managers and bosses, 99% of whom: Hate to be approached with problems. Informal Learning 4. MORE
The E-Learning Curve
JUNE 21, 2018
To bring learning opportunities to your workforce you’re going to have to look beyond the confines of the conference room for informal learning. Continue Reading → The post Is informal learning this year’s L&D Fortnight? appeared first on E-Learning Curve Blog.
The E-Learning Curve
JUNE 21, 2018
To bring learning opportunities to your workforce you’re going to have to look beyond the confines of the conference room for informal learning. Continue Reading → The post Is informal learning this year’s L&D Fortnite? appeared first on E-Learning Curve Blog.
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Jay Cross
AUGUST 7, 2009
Published in Chief Learning Officer, August 2009. Informal Learning 2.0. Corporate approaches to learning have to change, as well. Until the shift from industrial to network dominance, corporations could compensate for crummy learning by hiring experienced people and managing ingenious command-and-control structures. Organizations that don’t learn can’t keep up. It’s learn or die. Increasing customer loyalty though learning.
Experiencing eLearning
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
Official description: Microlearning: Beyond Learning Objects and Just-in-time Performance Support. The need and pressure to learn continually, coupled with limited time available to learn, make new digital media viable for professional development. Let’s discuss how microlearning might address the realities of learning in a digital age. Specifically focusing on OTJ skills & knowledge. Basic goal: make learning more effective through new media.
Learnnovators
FEBRUARY 17, 2014
ABOUT CHARLES JENNINGS (Managing Director, Duntroon Associates): Charles Jennings is a leading thinker, practitioner and consultant in the areas of performance improvement, change management, and learning. From 2002 until the end of 2008, Charles was the Chief Learning Officer for Reuters and Thomson Reuters where he had responsibility for developing the global learning and performance strategy and leading the learning organisation for the firm’s 55,000 workforce.
Learnnovators
FEBRUARY 16, 2014
ABOUT CHARLES JENNINGS (Managing Director, Duntroon Associates): Charles Jennings is a leading thinker, practitioner and consultant in the areas of performance improvement, change management, and learning. From 2002 until the end of 2008, Charles was the Chief Learning Officer for Reuters and Thomson Reuters where he had responsibility for developing the global learning and performance strategy and leading the learning organisation for the firm’s 55,000 workforce.
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
People learn their jobs by doing their jobs. These posts offer guidance to managers who want to make learning from experience and conversation more effective. Replacing today’s haphazard approaches with systematic, enlightened management accelerates the development of future workers and gets the entire organization working smarter. Convergence of work and learning. Work and learning have merged. We learn on the job to do the job.
Jay Cross
APRIL 6, 2013
Sharing 50 suggestions on putting 70-20-10 to work has consumed five posts spread over two months. Post 1 People learn their jobs by doing their jobs. Knowledge work has evolved into keeping up and taking advantage of connections. We learn to do the job on the job. To stay ahead and create more value, you have to learn faster, better, smarter. He is the world authority on 70:20:10 and these posts draw heavily on his work.). Learning is social.
Tony Karrer
AUGUST 31, 2009
Someone was just asking me about the big trends in learning and the implications of those trends on corporate learning and development. So, here's a bit of a compilation of some of the things I've been talking about in my blog which points to some of the major trends in learning. And the risk is pretty severe as described in the Business of Learning. Training Method Trends suggests that social learning tools are beginning to take off. vs. Learning 2.0,
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 22, 2008
Better yet, go take a look at: Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee Better Questions for Learning Professionals Continuing Thoughts on Questions What Questions Should We be Asking? Session Hopping a Practical Guide General Session - New Work Literacies and E-Learning 2.0 These changes are continuously transforming the landscape for knowledge work. As learning professionals, we have an opportunity to take a leading role. Learning 2.0
ID Reflections
AUGUST 28, 2012
Mostly, business as usual at work and crisis situations at home took my time and attention. Because I love what I do (and I am hugely fortunate in that sense), it’s very easy to let my work consume me and my time. Much has been written about priorities and work life balance — especially for women. To strike a work-life balance, work from home as much as possible (most of the time). This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself.
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Clark Quinn
AUGUST 13, 2010
This isn’t news: things are moving faster, we’re having less resources available, our competition is more agile, the amount of relevant information is increasing, customers are more aware, the list goes on. Not surprisingly for regular readers, I think that the nature of work is changing. learn from mistakes. In essence, to do the important work faster. The fact is, our brains are really good at pattern matching, and bad at rote work.
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
In my presentation yesterday, I was talking about how to get informal learning going. The point, however, is from the point of the view of the learner, all the resources needed are ‘to hand’ through every stage of knowledge work. Courses, information resources, people, representational tools, the ability to tap into the 4 C’s (create, contextualize, connect, co-create). Weed : you may have to help people learn how to participate.
Tony Karrer
MAY 4, 2010
The Big Question for May is Learning Technology 2015 – it asks what we expect workplace learning technologies to look like in 2015. We are already seeing this in terms of lots of startups aimed at particular elements of knowledge work. tools designed to support learning? Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs
Kapp Notes
JULY 8, 2010
There has been a lot of talk about formal vs. informal learning in the educational blogosphere and when it comes right down to it, formal learning is the most effective. When lives are on the line, the learning process is studied, calculated and formalized to a degree of realism as close to 100% as possible. The processes have been formalized, in knowledge work, many of the processes are formalized. Realistic, formal learning events make a difference.
Tony Karrer
JANUARY 11, 2010
I’m still working on my yearly post that is my eLearning Predictions. Here’s the information: Ten eLearning Predictions for 2010 To kick off the new year, Dr. Tony Karrer is sharing some thoughts on what's going to be happening in the world of eLearning in 2010. and it's long term impact on workplace learning. It is being hosted by the local DC Chapter of ASTD’s Technology Learning Group. s impact on knowledge work and workplace learning.
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
Yesterday, in my first posting on this topic, I showed how “social learning” is not just about a new training trend or about adding social media into the “blend&# or acquiring the latest Social Learning Management System, but a fundamental change in how we need to view workplace learning. Let’s first take a look at managing and measuring employee “learning&#. So how then do we measure learning in the workplace?
Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 12, 2009
Things are moving faster, and this has all sorts of consequences: it means that change is occurring more frequently, information is doubling, our competition is more aggressive, and more. In short, we have to move away from depending on formal learning to be able to cope, and we need a new solution. Instead, we need to make sure everyone understands what the overall goal is, and have them work together to achieve it. Who is responsible for ensuring this works?
Tony Karrer
APRIL 7, 2009
Using eLearning Learning , I thought it would be interesting to go look what it thinks are some of the top items of all time. Learning 2.0 - The Things How we read online. - Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers Web 2.0 Applications in Learning Rethinking Learning Styles Understanding E-Learning 2.0
Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 14, 2009
It’s always fun at the end of the year to go back and take a look at what you’ve been working on, what you’ve learned during the year. In June 2008, Work Literacy Launched. I’m convinced that we are all struggling to have our Work Skills Keep Up. During the year, I’ve had fantastic conversations through LearnTrends around SharePoint , Examples and Tour of Different Kinds of eLearning , Social Learning , and the Business of Learning. Learning Event?
CLO Magazine
MAY 11, 2017
Organizations are facing increasing disruptions, more information is available, and new technologies are making it easier and faster to compete. Provided that learning and development leaders could and should have a central role in innovation, what is the chief learning officer’s responsibility? And this is contrary to much of the working world where interaction is kept to a necessary minimum, time is to be spent on work tasks and mistakes are punished.
Jay Cross
APRIL 20, 2010
T oday CLO magazine’s Deanne Hartley interviewed me for an upcoming story about micro-learning. People naturally learn in small chunks. On the way home from the Swiss eLearning Conference, my mind was racing after three days of talking with interesting people and spreading the informal learning gospel. Not quite micro-learning, but a step in that direction. In time, the words will migrate into the Working Smarter unbook.
Tony Karrer
MARCH 16, 2009
The Big Question this month is Workplace Learning in 10 Years : If you peer inside an organization in 10 years time and you look at how workplace learning is being supported by that organization, what will you see? What will the mix of Push vs. Pull Learning; Formal vs. Informal supported by the organization? What new departments will be responsible for parts of workplace learning? Who in an organization is responsible for supporting and improving work?
Tony Karrer
MARCH 29, 2009
Just got through reading - Long Live Instructor-Led Learning - by Saul Carliner, who is a person I know, like and respect. His article included citations with links, but included no links to the Learning Circuits Blog , nor to the post Workplace Learning in 10 Years that he discusses, nor to any of the individual responses several by well known and respect people from the industry. Tony Karrer Formal learning will still be going strong but somewhat de-emphasised.
eLearning Learning Posts
AUGUST 4, 2009
Best of eLearning Learning. 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. LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009 How to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. New Skills for Learning Professionals - The Learning Circuits Blog , July 1, 2009.
Jay Cross
JULY 4, 2009
MacWorld : learning infrastructure and social network infrastructure are converging. I was coincidentally walking by a presentation by Clive Shepherd on the exhibits floor at Learning Technologies in London when he happened to flip my photo and a quote on the screen. Donald Clark, Charles Jennings, and I gave the closing keynote, Learning for Tomorrow, What a Difference a Decade Makes ( pdf , mp3 , mp4 ). All of our energies will go into peer-to-peer, self-service learning.
Jay Cross
JUNE 28, 2009
The July issue of Chief Learning Officer is now available online. It features an article in which Jon Husband and I delve into how to measure the impact of learning in the network era. Understandably, seasoned executives, chief learning officers among them, are having a devil of a time shifting from the industrial age mindset of logic, certainty and bounded constraints to the network gestalt of interaction, self-organization, unpredictability and fewer limits to potential.
Jay Cross
MARCH 14, 2010
Jay Cross examines decision making on learning at work, and gives the lie to some myths about the use of business metrics. It is equally vital to understand that different officers of your corporation will approach decisions about learning in very different ways depending on their circumstances. Every business decision is made with less than perfect information, and every decision entails taking a risk. Knowledge Workers. There’s more and more to learn.
TechSmith Camtasia
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Most trainers, both formal and informal, have the same goal: to make learning that sticks. There are tons of roadblocks that come up when you’re trying to get other people to absorb information, especially if you’re not the subject matter expert. In this post, we examine ten pain points that video training addresses – the first of which is the time and money spent on face-to-face learning for repetitive tasks. Problem #6: I work with smart people.
Jay Cross
JUNE 28, 2011
Point your smart phone at a QR code, and you’ll be led to a location on the net with more information. In this 2011 edition, we added a more lucid description of workscapes, streamlined the social learning chapter, updated the cheat sheets, and included a glossary. Working smarter is the key to sustainability and continuous improvement. Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable. Why isn’t Sally at work today?
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
DECEMBER 25, 2008
To my way of thinking, this is the convergence of knowledge work and informal learning that I’ve been trying to promote. Can Cisco-style collaboration really work outside of Cisco? How Cisco’s CEO John Chambers is Turning the Tech Giant Socialist , by: Ellen McGirt.
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
DECEMBER 25, 2008
To my way of thinking, this is the convergence of knowledge work and informal learning that I’ve been trying to promote. Can Cisco-style collaboration really work outside of Cisco? How Cisco’s CEO John Chambers is Turning the Tech Giant Socialist , by: Ellen McGirt.
Jay Cross
DECEMBER 26, 2008
Next year, I intend to start making the world a better place, and that’s going to take more oomph, focus, and work with others. Staying Alive appears in Link&Learn eNewsletter. Time to Change Centuries appears in Inside Learning Technologies. Keynoted Learning Technologies 2008 in London. Topic: Learning — All Change. I announced the Informal Learning 2.0 Knowledge workers have replaced factory workers.
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