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Learning or Performance Strategy

Clark Quinn

Taken with my backwards design diagram from the learning science book, I was tasked with determining what that means. In this case, the audience can’t be mandated with classes or tutorials. I think of it as a ‘performance strategy’, not a learning one. Thus we focus on job aids and examples.

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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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Formal vs informal learning and what the LMS should do about them

Matrix

Every time we buy a new piece of technology, be it a smartphone, a TV or a blender, we need to learn how to use it. Some of us go by trial and error, few of us read the manual and the younger lot simply go online and watch tutorials about how to do it. Formal and informal learning – two peas in the same pod.

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The dawn of a new generation

E-Learning Provocateur

Kit, the Learning Consultant insisted the videos should be loaded on the LMS so that the time spent and results could be tracked. So the formal training needs to be sustained, and a powerful way of doing that is with an informal learning environment. The real tracking now should be done with the business scorecard.

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20 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 13

Upside Learning

As people increasingly embrace social media and new technologies with open arms, social learning, informal learning and blended learning continue to gain a strong foothold in an organization’s learning palette. The Complete List of iPad Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials. Read on to learn how to cope with it.

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Learning Experience Design

ID Mentors

It was great at acting as a repository that catalogued all the structured courses, stored records of learners and tracked the course completion status. However, it was not a platform that allowed unstructured and informal learning. Neither did it track data related to these informal means of learning.

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How to drive up learner engagement in digital training

Matrix

It’s also advisable to have good tutorials and whitepapers readily available for the users. It’s time to recognize informal learning as legitimate. Informal learning may be harder to track and quantify, but its relevance is very high. Read more: 8 Best practices to facilitate informal learning.