Big Dog, Little Dog

APRIL 20, 2009

Two recent posts got my attention -- Tony Karrer's Reduce Searching Start Talking and Harold Jarche's Effective knowledge sharing. Harold notes the 80-20 funding ratio between formal and informal learning and Will Thalheimer questions this funding differential in the comment section. So which chart do we believe?

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Docebo

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Poll them about what information and training they would find helpful. Analyze your web traffic, product usage statistics, and internal search queries to see what types of information people search for. . Enable formal and informal e-learning . Create open forums where they can ask questions.

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Watershed

JULY 17, 2018

The learning ecosystems associated with these programs largely consist of your company’s formal tools, such as an LMS, content libraries, mobile learning programs, and user-generated content. Other learning programs are more subtle. Employees may be using hundreds of informal pathways to learn new things.

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The Learning Circuits

DECEMBER 2, 2005

Jay Cross says that 80% of learning is informal and I wonder how much of that informal learning is being done by Internet searching. Maybe the first course every person should take should be on effective online search techniques and how to assemble knowledge from multiple sources of varying quality.

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Attention Social Networks Learning Objects Wikipedia 40

Learnnovators

JULY 20, 2015

The parallel concept of Bring Your Own Content (BYOC) has also been suggested and, as mobile devices – smartphones and tablets – have circumvented corporate firewalls, the ability for learners to source, select and consume their own learning materials when and where they choose is becoming a reality.

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Talented Learning

JANUARY 27, 2016

Content tagging (new word for keyword metadata) and search by tag. Find-the-expert functionality with people search and communications via chat or mail. And that means the long-awaited benefits of more continuous, holistic formal and informal learning are beginning to be realized.

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