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Informal Learning 2.0

Jay Cross

Published in Chief Learning Officer, August 2009. Informal Learning 2.0. Some cutting-edge corporations are adopting a new bundle of practices — let’s call them informal learning 2.0 — in order to improve operating efficiency by: • Slashing time to performance. Increasing customer loyalty though learning.

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Formal Learning All the Way.Baby

Kapp Notes

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. The processes have been formalized, in knowledge work, many of the processes are formalized. Here's why.

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Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does: PART TWO

Jane Hart

So how then do we measure learning in the workplace? Well, although we can track formal learning activity, it is really not possible to track informal learning (where most people’s learning takes place). Their services shouldn’t be forced upon them. Quality of service.

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What is the Important Work?

Clark Quinn

learn from mistakes. create new products/services/offerings/markets/businesses. In essence, to do the important work faster. Call it knowledge work, call it concept work, the point is that execution will only be the cost of entry, innovation will be the necessary differentiator. conduct useful research.

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Performance Support in 2015

Tony Karrer

We are already seeing this in terms of lots of startups aimed at particular elements of knowledge work. See Does Deliberative Practice Lead to Quick Proficiency? This is going to first take the form of hundreds of thousands of different little applications that each provide performance support for particular tasks.

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Future of the training department

Clark Quinn

Who is responsible for ensuring this works? In some organizations it’s the information services group, or the knowledge management group. It’s got to include performance support, and informal learning. This doesn’t come for free. It can no longer be just about courses.

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Workplace Learning Professionals Next Job - Management Consultant

Tony Karrer

But there was another significant trend in the answers… Learning and Work Converge In a world where Knowledge Work and Learning is Inseparable , finding ways to support and improve work is the same as finding ways to support and improve learning. Management will be the primary owner.