Learningtogo

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In this post, we’ll distinguish between informal and formal learning and explore ways to identify and encourage informal learning within your organization. What is informal learning? Cross defined informal learning as “personal, social […] unofficial, unscheduled, [and] impromptu.”

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eFront

OCTOBER 29, 2012

“It’s critical that training and development professionals not go overboard with command and control when they support informal learning. And since informal learning makes up the bulk of learning inside organizations, this could be a truly perilous move.” ~ Patti Shank, Director of Research at The eLearning Guild.

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gomo learning

MAY 14, 2019

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. Making time to learn.

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ATD Learning Technologies

AUGUST 14, 2017

This approach combines traditional training sessions, either in person or online, with informal learning opportunities like microlearning assets and social collaboration. Informal learning implementation feels complicated. Create a bundle of performance support assets, rather than a useless slide deck.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

For organizations interested in promoting employee growth, a mix of formal with informal education methods may be the key to success. Informal learning refers to the spontaneous, ad-hoc learning most of us engage in every day when we feed our curiosity or explore answers to questions provoked by our environment.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Informal Learning: Are We Missing a HUGE Opportunity? with Bob Mosher of Learning Guide Solutions, presented by Massachusetts Chapter of ISPI and sponsored by Kineo. 3 domains: formal, informal, performance support. Part of performance support is encoding, decoding. This is not to teach, but to enable.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Jane is a renowned advocate of performance support in the workplace, and I wonder what she’ll make of my latest musing. While much of Jane’s work exposes the difference between training and performance support – and implores us to do less of the former in favour of the latter – my post here does not.

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LearnDash

JUNE 6, 2016

The opportunity for higher quality gains is in informal learning. I have touched on informal learning before as we are seeing it grow in popularity in modern organizations. However, this begs the question: when you start to ‘formalize’ informal learning… doesn’t it become formal learning?

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

The Entreprise Collaborative has a new question , asking whether we can formalize informal learning. To me, it’s not about formalizing informal learning so much as explicitly supporting it versus ignoring it. Like the proverbial ’stuff’, informal learning happens. I see two roles.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 5, 2013

The EPS discipline is pushing us [Training] into new territory that expands the scope of our deliverable from a training event transaction to seamless implementation of performer support [PS] assets to be consumed at the point of work.

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Jane Hart

APRIL 27, 2012

Jay Cross, the author of the 2007 seminal book, Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance , recently wrote a blog post in which he explained that although there has been a lot of talk about “informal learning” in the last five years, there has been very little action.

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Learning Pool

APRIL 14, 2022

In the fifth installment of our ‘Learning lessons from lockdown’ blog series, we discuss how we use hybrid learning to support hybrid working. Recording sessions for playback later ensures that everything that happens in the classroom, even unscripted and informal learning, is captured. A hybrid model.

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TOPYX LMS

APRIL 19, 2016

Did you take a structured, formal class, or did you learn the terms by hearing the language of others? 100 bucks says you learned to speak colloquially by hearing the speech of your family and friends and following suit. This method of learning is called informal learning. How an LMS Encourages Informal Learning.

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EI Design

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In fact, this is a significant way how we learned as children. In this article, you will learn how to leverage informal learning in today’s remote working environment to drive creativity, innovation, and engagement. What Is Informal Learning? Informal learning , in contrast, happens organically.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 25, 2016

As David Grebow explained in his post about The Learning Curve and The Pivot Point , unless formal training (courses, workshops, seminars, webinars, etc.) This chart identifies only some of the many ways in which learning can be supported over time. This process is represented by the chart below.

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ATD Learning Technologies

AUGUST 14, 2017

This approach combines traditional training sessions, either in person or online, with informal learning opportunities like microlearning assets and social collaboration. Informal learning implementation feels complicated. Create a bundle of performance support assets, rather than a useless slide deck.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 3, 2011

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). I certainly support the idea of staff profiles. They require support resources such as timetables, agendas and follow-ups.

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Litmos

MAY 21, 2019

My Internet Time Alliance colleague, Charles Jennings, pointed me to this interesting article by Andries De Grip, titled " The importance of informal learning at work" that has interesting implications for the design of learning experiences, particularly when employees are not desk-bound, and/or in high-turnover situations.

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Watershed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Learn how to use captured data to support blended learning and enhance informal learning in your organization.

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LearnUpon

JULY 25, 2019

Formal and informal learning are two opposing learning styles. So, let’s dive in, scrutinize each, and figure out which learning practice will work best for your organization. . What is formal and informal learning? . Formal learning is learning that is delivered “in a systematic intentional way”.

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Docebo

JULY 4, 2019

For L&D to remain relevant, we need to develop new, business-focused and technology-enabled ways to support workers (and how they work) to deliver business results. This blog will explore the growing need for smart learning technologies and the actionable solutions they will empower L&D professionals to implement. .

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Torrance Learning

JUNE 6, 2016

As David Grebow explained in his post about The Learning Curve and The Pivot Point , unless formal training (courses, workshops, seminars, webinars, etc.) This chart identifies only some of the many ways in which learning can be supported over time. This process is represented by the chart below.

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LearnUpon

JUNE 20, 2019

These are all substantial aspects of learning, but in truth, learning isn’t always so by the numbers. Informal learning is a type of learning that happens every day, whether we realize it or not. But, smart businesses are now beginning to see the value of nurturing informal training too.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 31, 2011

I stumbled upon an article about an effort by the Gates Foundation to swing the direction of education standards with a mega-investment in digital learning. It turns out Gates has invested millions in educational video games, funded the game-centered Quest2Learn and financially supports YouTube sensation Sal Khan , founder of Khan Academy.

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Challenge to Learn

MARCH 3, 2011

The question of the month #LCBQ is: How do you assess whether your informal learning, social learning, continuous learning and performance support initiatives have the desired impact or if they achieve the desired results? So, did the learning activity solve the problem within the given requirements?

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Clark Quinn

MAY 25, 2016

While it’s easy to talk about how we need to support the transition from novice to expert, it might help to be a little more detailed. While it’s easy to say that the role of formal learning wanes, and the role of informal learning ramps up, what are the types of support we might look to?

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 1, 2010

I’ll be there with bells on – and not just because the workshop is being held five minutes from my house, but also because Bob Mosher is an amazingly dynamic and engaging speaker with lots of practical ideas for your learning organization. Tags: bob mosher ispi informal learning.

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Origin Learning

DECEMBER 30, 2014

With Tin Can, organizations have the capability to blend these two diverse concepts, track all of the learning and create personalized learning paths for each individual.In Subscribe to our newsletter for best learning solutions & practices. First name.

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Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 11, 2011

Jane is describing informal learning, a term most often used by Jay Cross to describe the many forms of learning that take place independently from forced or “pushed” training programs. Informal learning includes certain social learning tools like wikis, communities of practice, expert directories, etc.,

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Spark Your Interest

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Often, it is referred to as learning by experience or just as experience. Informal learning is a pervasive ongoing phenomenon of learning via participation or learning via knowledge creation, in contrast with the traditional view of teacher-centered learning via knowledge acquisition. What do you think?

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Jane Hart

JUNE 4, 2012

So one approach that I have been promoting is, instead of thinking of Formal and Informal Leaning as polar opposites, rather to think in terms of a Social Workplace Learning Continuum (as shown diagrammatically in the image on the right). But in order to support the full SWL Continuum, there are 5 points to take on board.

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eLearning Industry

MARCH 11, 2024

This article explores the significant and multifaceted role of extracurricular activities in shaping graduate employability. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 8, 2012

Given that the goal of instructional designers and training developers is to improve employee performance, it’s surprising that many continue to create blended learning programs with little or no reliance on performance support tools or systems. Build performance support into every blended learning effort.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Mott’s blueprint is the Open Learning Network (OLN). Mine is the Informal Learning Environment (ILE). I see the ILE as a solution for self-directed learning, peer-to-peer discourse and knowledge sharing. We can have both.&#. Amen to that. But how do we bridge the gap? The ILE recapped. It informalises the formal.

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Trivantis

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Today, workers need to be able to learn on demand, as well as to maximize their annual training. Informal learning helps employees stay knowledgeable and ready for industry shifts. Want to initiate more informal learning in your organization? Use a flexible LMS that facilitates social and informal learning.

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Living in Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Integrating Performance Support (PS) as part of a corporate learning strategy is one of the toughest sales we will ever have to make. The advent of Experience API [a.k.a. Tin Can], becoming a reality in early 2013, is turning the conversation from, "Do we really need to go there?"

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

This post continues my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. The second of the ten 'insights' in the report is that ‘L&D is playing a key role in supporting informal learning'.

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