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Informal learning: the real deal. Free.

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I nformal Learning has been getting a lot of buzz lately. Many vendors claim to offer informal learning, or even “informal learning management&# without having changed anything beyond the words in their advertising. Informal Learning: Five Ways to Do More with Less. Register here.

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The LMS – Will It Survive?

Upside Learning

A capable LMS with the ability to offer the right tools to manage courses (which may come from various vendors), manage users and the trainings and their reports would fit here and be productive. The strongest premise behind these concerns is that informal learning doesn’t need management and hence doesn’t need LMS -completely true.

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Learning Experience Creation Systems

Clark Quinn

So, where does the process of creating a learning experience go wrong? There’s been a intriguing debate over at Aaron (@mrch0mp3rs) Silver’s blog about where the responsibility lies between clients and vendors for knowledge to ensure a productive relationship. Tags: design strategy.

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Informal Snake Oil

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

“As soon as the software vendors and marketers get hold of a good idea, they pretty well destroy it,&# writes my colleague Harold Jarche in his post on Social Snake Oil. I watched vendors hi-jack the term eLearning, and I don’t want to see it happen to social or informal learning. This was ground zero.

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Microlearning: What’s Old Is New Again

CLO Magazine

I have to admit when I first heard that term, I rolled my eyes and thought, “Is this informal learning all over again?” There is such a thing as informal learning but the category is too broad to get our arms around. It has also helped us develop scalable design methodologies to serve the many areas of informal learning.

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LearnTrends: Reinventing Organizational Learning

Experiencing eLearning

Learning professionals haven’t gotten a seat at the table b/c they haven’t earned it–focus is too narrow. Now that businesses are ecosystems, we should be training customers, vendors, etc. 2/3 of CLOs have no involvement in customer learning, partner/supply chain learning. We focus too much on novices.

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Sunny Forecast for Learning in 2018

CLO Magazine

Informal learning is another area of expected change. According to the survey, 45 percent of learning leaders plan to use more external support and 38 percent plan to keep usage about the same. Mike Prokopeak is vice president and editor in chief of Chief Learning Officer magazine.