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The Importance of Informal Learning at the Workplace

Origin Learning

Earlier blog posts have stressed on how workplace learning has evolved over the years and L&D managers are re-inventing the wheel to meet the demands of the ‘millennial audience’. In this blog post, we examine ‘informal learning’ and see how it can play a major role in modern workplace learning.

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Evaluating Informal Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Informal learning in organizations is finally being recognized as a key aspect of employee development and performance improvement. But how do you evaluate something that is as unpredictable and serendipitous as informal learning? This approach can become somewhat automated using technologies like Video Traces.

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Formal Learning vs. Informal Learning

Learningtogo

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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How Experience API (xAPI) - Tin Can API Tracks Informal Learning

Designing Digitally

Organizations can break free of the restrictions that learning management systems dictate and release learners to experience learning beyond the classroom. Learning doesn’t need to take place solely in front of a computer screen and keyboard. For example, the learner can record this type of statement: I watched a video on….” .

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Online Tools for Evaluating Informal Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

All activity in the online community can be tracked, and the ongoing development of the youth’s projects can be analyzed for more detail. And she writes about videotaping users: For example, videotaping a museum visitor using an exhibition (using IRB-approved informed consent as appropriate).

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Why Informal Learning Demands Informal Assessments

Degreed

And most of that on-the-job learning happens outside of training classes, in the job-related information you consume and tasks you complete each day. That’s a huge amount of informal learning over the course of a career. Almost every day you are reading articles, watching videos, searching online to find an answer.

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Using Mobile to Capture Informal Learning

Growth Engineering

Formal learning has a tendency to be just that – formal – and sometimes it fails to speak to the learner in a way they can identify with. The challenge to provide a regular stream of relevant content makes it tempting to tap the well of informal learning. What do we mean when we talk about capturing informal learning?