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5 Ways Informal Learning Gets Learners Engaged and Excited

Docebo

Informal learning encourages learning in the flow of work – here are 5 ways to help you make it happen. In fact, those formal learning situations are becoming less of a fixture in L&D as awareness grows around the need to foster and encourage more informal learning opportunities. .

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How to Harness Informal Learning

Rob Hubbard

Informal learning, like the scenario above, takes place constantly in most organisations. It is estimated that probably as much of 80% of learning within an organisation is informal, with formal training constituting the other 20%. What is informal learning? How can informal learning be harnessed?

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What is social learning (and how to adopt it)

Docebo

While there remains a need for formal training environments to meet specific learning outcomes, the necessity for organizations to leverage platforms that enable social and informal learning, where learners network, share, collaborate, and exchange ideas to solve problems, is paramount. Why does social learning matter?

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Power to the People – 5 Reasons to Embrace a Pull Learning Strategy

Rob Hubbard

We’re so used to self-directed learning these days that we forget we’re even doing it. If I want to know the best way to solder a joint or set a stone, I’ll Google it, find a video on YouTube or ask my social network of fellow jewellers. Adopting a pull learning strategy shows that the organisation has trust in their people.

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Can Games Transform the World? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

In her guest blog post on LEEF blog , Koreen Olbrish , CEO at Tandem Learning, outlines several theories that justify games and simulations as learning strategies, including these: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow Theory. Mistakes or guessing should cause realistic consequence. Rieber and Play Theory. Properly d. Properly d.

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Workplace Learning – Formal or Informal?

Paradiso Solutions

What is formal and informal learning? Learning that is “given in a systematic planned fashion” is referred to as formal learning. It typically takes place in a face-to-face environment or through an online learning platform, like an LMS, and is planned and supervised by an instructor. Learn More.

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Learning & Development: How To Do It Right (2020 Update)

Docebo

Ask yourself: when I go to Youtube to quickly learn something, how long is the video, usually? Micro-sharing is what we are used to (think Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Youtube, even texting). Learning should be no different. And how do I consume that piece of content? Everything we do these days is bite sized.