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Exploring Exploration

Clark Quinn

That is, making learning safe. So providing a safe sandbox for exploration is a support for learning. Similarly, have low consequences for mistakes generated through informal learning. Exploration also drives informal learning. There are practices that increase the effectiveness of the search.

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Doctoring the Informal Learning Environment

E-Learning Provocateur

Recently Anne Marie blogged Location and Learning (which I have reproduced here) and she asked me whether or not I consider her central idea an example of an Informal Learning Environment (ILE). They don’t feel part of a team. I would search content. They don’t know who everyone is. I would browse.

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4 Ways to Support Informal Learning

gomo learning

Rather, we gain knowledge through a variety of informal means and methods—such as searching the web, asking a coworker for help, or watching online tutorials. And, because these informal learning experiences are already happening in your organization, it’s important to know how to recognize and foster them.

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Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning

Learning Visions

Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning ….&#%!? Presented by Training Magazine Network Diagram of the learning process: Input: you can get input in lots of ways Organize Apply Evaluate (in a wheel – each of these is a subprocess) Looking first at learning. In a disconnected learning system: Need.

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8 Best practices to facilitate informal learning

Matrix

Without ruling out traditional L&D practices, informal learning should find its way into today’s workplace. Read more: The truth about informal learning: it happens all the time, anywhere. 8 practices to facilitate informal learning. We live in an age when we don’t search for news, the news find us.

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Learn Informal Learning Informally

Jay Cross

Next month I’ll be offering an experiential workshop on Informal Learning through Jane Hart’s Social Learning Center. Collaborate with a self-organizing team to solve problems. By the close of the workshop, you will be able to… understand what informal learning is, how it works, why it’s important.

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Podcasts: Effective ways to train your sales team

QuoDeck

Podcasts are recorded using certain software online recording programs, exported to a digital warehouse like Spotify, and then downloaded/streamed by anyone who searches for that topic or anyone who has a direct link to the podcast itself.?. like satellite radio, but in pre-packaged and time-limited format.?. ?.