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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? Employee teams could post the progress and results of their projects on a Web site (e.g.,

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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. The individual learner is also able to keep track of his own learning information.

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Open Source eLearning Tools

Tony Karrer

You can find a long list of tools broken into authoring tools, games/simulations, quiz/test tools, social media, delivery platforms, tracking and whether they support mobile. eLearning Technology , July 28, 2006 Scuttle – an open source social bookmarking tool Corporate Social Bookmarking Tools - eLearning Technology , May 21, 2008 Web 2.0

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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). internal wiki).

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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

Adult learning is very much connected to need and usefulness and as a result it’s paramount for instructional designers to prove the importance of any material they present and allow for learners to go about finding what they think is of educational value at a certain point. Formal and informal learning – two peas in the same pod.

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An All-In-One Resource for All Things xAPI

eLearningMind

This database, called a Learning Record Store (LRS), has been specifically designed to capture more granular data about each learning interaction than previous standards such as SCORM. SCORM is one of several standards used for packaging and loading learning content into an LMS. xAPI removes those “tracking boundaries.”

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