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Jarche in Skills 2.0:Today, active involvement in informal learning, particularly through web-based communities, is key ... On this month's Big Question - Lead the Charge - we are already seeing some interesting responses.The Learning ... interesting thoughts in the post, but alsoMost learning professionals can only do so much. There's a vacuum of leadership in the adoption of enterprise/web/learning 2.0 tools from learning professionals in senior positions and too many barriers put ... experiment somewhat difficult for the poor, lonely learning professional.I'm not sure I buy this. Is it okay for ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - Comments100 eLearning Articles and White Papers
... particular order to these.1. Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory 2. Keeping Up with the Pace of Change Informal learning will help employees survive in the future workplace 3. Understanding E-Learning 2.0 There are some very interesting changes going on in the world of e-learning that seem to have crept up on practitioners ... -learning Professional By Stephen Downes, National Research Council Canada 5. 2007 Training Industry Report Summary ... magazine edition. 6. Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? (EDUCAUSE Review) | ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 28, 2008 - CommentsLearning Responsibility
... formal learning - whatever you choose to call this: informal learning, peer learning, bottom-up learning, non-formal ... , eCommunity, coaching, mentoring, informal learning, etc.), and Promoting a culture of learningDeveloping learners as ... The big question for March 2008 is - Scope of Learning Responsibility? Karl Kapp helped me pull this question together ... posts so far.First, my earlier posts Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape lay out that I believe the space in which Corporate Learning (and realistically all learning ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 10, 2008 - CommentsFight in the Blogosphere - Finally
... them. So, no fight emerged.In Bill's series of posts he tells us (among other statements):Informal learning is just ... learning methods badly packaged.Cross' definition of informal learning is so wide open it can mean almost anything.Cross ... return on investment for training (p. 165).Ray Sims - Informal Learning Dustup at Sims Learning Connections and Harold Jarche - Growing, changing, learning, creating both mention Bill's post, but interestingly neither of them mention the ... serious... With that preface...I've got to say that in comparison to other worlds of blogging, all us folks in the learning ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, March 7, 2008 - CommentsLooking Back at 2007
... like? What is the form of informal learning?Still working on this, but my belief is that the picture is not going to be ... informal learning (as a term) during 2007. Part of this is that as you formalize aspects of it, it's really no longer informal ... Predictions for Learning in 2008.Biggest challenges for 2007?I could answer this as the biggest challenges for Learning ... are talking Reusable Learning Objects, Courseware Templates, Tracking Mechanisms, Content Management, etc. I'm really ... wasn't a place to hear about these solutions. That's a problem for me/us.What are your predictions for 2007?More learning ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, December 31, 2007 - CommentseLearning Guild Research Reports
... the slightly older reports such as Informal Learning, Future Directions, Extended Enterprise, etc. You can click on the images to see more information about each report. Immersive Learning Simulations Learning Management Systems Synchronous Learning Systems Mobile Learning Measurement ... things such as the eMag, access to data behind eLearning Buyers Guide, Training Modalities, the e-Learning Salary & Compensation Report, and the e-Learning Projects Database.And, if I'm not mistaken this includes direct data access ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - CommentseLearning 2.0 Random Thoughts based on Chat
... organization? Supporting informal learning?How do people manage their regular deliverables while exploring all these tools ... find out about this stuff?You learn about this using these tools and scanning sources like blogs, trying things out ... , strategy, etc. Most of us blog to Learn and Network. Linking blogging to senior people, which is often done, is a bad ... to be more controlled, but most content is not.A lot of this discussion seems to have to do with personal learning - individuals learning about things we are interested in. Most of the corporate learning we support is teaching ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, November 15, 2007 - CommentsRay Sims - Ongoing Series of his PWLE
I never know what kinds of things to link to in my blog posts, but definitely if you've not been checking out Ray Sim's recent posts where he dives into how he uses different tools as part of his PWLE.Search Alert TipsLinkedIndel.icio.usTaking a look at some of his early posts around personal learning and doing environments is also time well spent if you are interested in learning how to learn.I love how Ray translates concepts into practice. He did similar things around informal learning a while ago. Good stuff Ray!
eLearning Technology - Monday, June 11, 2007 - CommentsPLE - PWLE Discussion Contiunes - Corporate vs Personal and IP Rights
... a great idea for many corporations. Maybe this is the whole issue of the The Paradox of Informal Learning (Form of ... This continues the discussion being had around PLE/PWLEs - see More Discussion on Personal Work Learning Environments ... for learning from everything of personal interest.And they are not, therefore, PLEs.A PLE that is 'inside the enterprise ... learning in a substantial way. Even if this isn't ideal (to you and Stephen), it still doesn't turn it into "not a PLE."In PLEs are power tools Tom tells us ... I'm on the same page as Cammy Bean about Personal Learning Environments:So all ...
eLearning Technology - Sunday, June 10, 2007 - CommentsBlended Learning
Posts related to Blended Learning:No Informal Learning and Blended Learning Mix - CLO Panel SurprisesBlended Learning Dead? - Huh?Blended learning - no shape, theory, methodology or best practice?Shift in Blended Learning - Example of Melding of Training and ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, May 14, 2007 - CommentsInformal Learning
Posts on the topic of Informal Learning:Formalizing and Investing in Informal LearningNo Informal Learning and Blended Learning Mix - CLO Panel SurprisesAction on Informal Learning - Leads to Great QuestionsNumbers and Informal LearningThe Real Challenge around Informal LearningMore on the Form of InformalThe Paradox of Informal Learning (Form of Informal?)Informal Learning and Learning Management SystemsInformal Learning - Let's Get Real - Part IIInformal Learning - Harold Tells Us Where To Put It - Now WhatInformal Learning - Let's Get RealElves, Measuring Results and Informal ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, May 14, 2007 - CommentsFormalizing and Investing in Informal Learning
I just saw a post by David Wilson -Real metrics on Informal Learning that asks about a subject that we would all like to know.Is investing in informal learning effective? Do you get return?This is a fascinating subject for me, because it leads us straight into The Paradox of Informal Learning (Form of Informal?) - which is basically that once you put form and structure to informal learning and try to support it in an organization, it becomes more formal. I've got a lot more on this issue in:Informal Learning - Let's Get Real - Part II Informal Learning - Let's Get Real Elves, ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, April 25, 2007 - CommentsNo Informal Learning and Blended Learning Mix - CLO Panel Surprises
At the eLearningGuild event, I attended a panel of CLOs from fairly large organizations (including EMC). Most of what they said was pretty much what you'd expect, however, what really surprised me were two things.First, none of the panelists seemed to focused on finding ways to support informal learning in the organization. EMC owns Documentum (a big ... wasn't only the CLO from EMC. Clearly, each of the CLOs saw themselves primarily as providers of formal learning ... blended learning solutions would be changing (and suggested that they might have to be shorter and available as ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - CommentseLearning 2.0
... eLearning 2.0The following are the best posts from my blog on eLearning 2.0 as of 2007/04/01. I will attempt to update periodically to continue to keep this up to date.Starting Point:What is eLearning 2.0? eLearning 1.0, 1.3 and 2.0 Learning Trends Point To and Shape eLearning 2.0 Practical Suggestions: Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 Start-Up Guides Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A SummaryIssues:eLearning 2.0: Informal Learning, Communities, Bottom-up ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, April 3, 2007 - CommentsAn Aha Moment - del.icio.us as Indicator of Valuable Content - Importantly My Content
Future of eLearningeLearning Technology: Informal Learning - Let's Get RealeLearning Technology: Do You WANT an LMS? Does a ... 0:02:59 9 9 5. Fun Headline Generator 941 0:01:37 0 0 6. Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective 1,023 0:02:38 ... :51 0 9 8. Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools 599 0:03:00 8 27 9. Second Life and Learning 616 0:01:45 4 7 10. Software Simulation eLearning (w/ links ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 2, 2007 - CommentsDisruptive Changes in Learning
... remember that's us also.See also:The future of learning is DIYThe future of learning is DIY DIY not ISD DIY vs. Formal Learning Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) PKM and Personal Learning PKM and Informal Learning Personal Learning for Learning ... George Siemens recent post - Formal and informal...control vs foster discusses the move from mainstream, controlled information to consumer generated information. His examples include:Mainstream media -> YouTubeMainstream press ... going on within learning where SME generated content and eventually Do-It-Yourself (DIY) will become more and ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 26, 2007 - CommentsInformal Learning and New Managers - Nothing?
... session with Harold and Jay Cross. Someone asked how informal learning might apply to new managers. I thought - wow ... informal learning doesn't apply to new manager training? Or are we powerless to help make informal learning happen? What's the deal? Where's some help? Maybe we just need to visit Ray Sims - What To Do On Behalf of Informal Learning? that suggests lots of informal learning approaches and think about how these might apply to new managers.Donald Clark said...From ... relatively low cost, out-of-the-box things you might try to help new managers?How does informal learning apply to ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, March 22, 2007 - CommentsSupporting New Managers
Ray Sims has been doing great stuff over on his blog: Sims Learning Connections. I've just read his answer to this month's big question - What Would You Do to Support New Managers? - Supporting New Managers With Informal Learning - good stuff. Worth taking a look at.While I'm on it - one of the most important aspects of helping managers transition is to effectively support and coach them over time. The question is always how do they get that coaching support. Some of the most effective performance interventions that I've been involved in targets both the performer and their manager ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 12, 2007 - CommentsTop Ten eLearning Blogs
Learning BlogJay Cross' blog on informal learning. Learning Matters!Tony O'Driscoll - he's been around forever in ... LearningClive Shepherd - make learning things happen electronically Corporate eLearning Strategies and DevelopmentBrent Schlenker explores elearning in the corporate world -- with a personal touch e-Clippings (Learning As Art)Mark Oehlert - how culture and technology come together over the space we call 'learning.' eLearning TechnologyYes, completely self ... - learning, networks, knowledge, technology, community Harold JarcheHarold Jarche's blog about "the intersection ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - CommentsContinuing Thoughts on Questions
Luckily I just saw Action on Informal Learning - Leads to Great Questions and then I read and had a brief back and ... information about how to ask better questions.So, what I've been really learning is what I personally find more ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, February 22, 2007 - CommentsAction on Informal Learning - Leads to Great Questions
Great post by Ray Sims - What To Do On Behalf of Informal Learning? He provides a list of things he can do to help informal learning in his organization. A few that jump out at me:Help employees discover and refine their own personal learning environment Improve content findability. Obsessive attention to enterprise federated search, cross-linking, social ... complementary informal learning opportunities â¬" explicitly driving this exploration through process Culturally ... "learning coachâ¬ý might look like. Market and advocate on behalf of informal learning opportunities Make it easy to share ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - CommentsIs the Big Question Half-Full or Half-Empty?
... quality and quantity ofconversations?" and "How can I create informal learning experiences for newmanagers in my organization?"Why do I like these questions?There are lots of possible answers.I feel I can learn from other people's answers.An ... This month's Big Question - What Questions Should We be Asking? - Dave Lee just told us that there are 102 Questions. The original genesis of this question was a combination of my continual desire for Better Questions for Learning ... can probably apply or can help me learn to do my work better.What I'm wondering is whether people who are reading ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, February 19, 2007 - CommentsNumbers and Informal Learning
Donald Clark has been discussing in the LCB The Numbers Behind Informal & Formal Learning and also on TrDev. I'm a little surprised that Donald didn't correct the graph which shows that 67% of learning comes from informal - which is based ... numbers on the amount of learning and amount of spending on these two things.So, while there's a debate going on in terms of what the amount of spending vs. amount of learning going, I think that somehow the more important point is being missed. I guess I would ask:How much time do YOU spend working on improving the informal learning in ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, February 19, 2007 - CommentsClive Sheppard - What Questions
... lines of the question I heard at Jay's session at ASTD TK2007: "What and how can I use the concepts of informal learning ... This month's LCB Big Question is What Questions Should We be Asking?Clive Sheppard posted his response. Clive first questioned if we've run out of questions. The answer is "no" we haven't, but my personal belief is that part of our issue in learning and eLearning is the lack of focus on what our real problems are - what the real questions are. So, I ... e-learning had never been invented/conceived, would our clients/employers be better or worse off? Is my ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, February 7, 2007 - CommentsWhere Will the Change Come From?
A few weeks ago, I posted a summary around the November LCB Big Question "Are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant in a world of rapid elearning, faster time-to-performance, and informal learning?":eLearning Technology: Significant Work Needed to ... better support.Finally, combine this with the discussions around Informal Learning that suggest the support for informal learning approaches will be emergent as well.What do you get?What's likely to happen here is that all sorts of innovation in learning, knowledge management, etc. is going to occur in the consumer, prosumer and in uncontrolled pockets ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, December 14, 2006 - CommentsKnowledge Management and Learning
Interesting discussion going on with contribution by Luis Suarez, Jay Cross, David Wilson - around the distinction between Knowledge Management and Learning:Knowledge Management and Informal Learning Knowledge Management and Learning - Separated at Birth? - Where They Really?KM & learning: separated at birth?KM and LearningThis is an interesting exchange because it highlights that approaches to learning and to knowledge management are shifting and beginning to overlap more now. Both are coming to recognize the importance of Know-Where and Know-Who as opposed to Know-What and Know-How.
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - CommentsThe Real Challenge around Informal Learning
... around what is informal learning:The Form of Informal - 2More on the Form of InformalThe Form of InformalThe Paradox of Informal Learning (Form of Informal?)This led me through a trail of posts Definitions of informal learning; Formal or informal - does it matter - its all learning; and non-formal learning: mapping the conceptual terrain. a consultation report.The last paper talks about a myriad of ways that informal learning has been defined and it's led me to conclude that I should give up on finding any definition of informal learning. Instead, I've taken away something very important:Informal ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, December 6, 2006 - CommentsMore on the Form of Informal
... of informal learning. In his post, he questions a couple of things I've said in The Paradox of Informal Learning (Form of Informal?) and Informal Learning is Too Important to Leave to Chance.His full article is worth a read, but the crux is:nobody equates 'informal learning' with 'structure-free learning' (unfortunately a few people have talked about "free ... for learning)andWhat makes informal learning different from formal learning is not that it is formless, but rather, it ... distinction between formal and informal learning, I have done it this way: by saying, if you can walk out of the room, or ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, December 4, 2006 - CommentsLCB Question for December - Past Year, Present Challenges, Predictions
The Learning Circuits Blog Question for December has been posted. The questions this month are:What will you remember ... & Mash-upsWhat do you see as the biggest challenges for 2007?I could answer this as the biggest challenges for Learning ... range of topics. And if you are talking Reusable Learning Objects, Courseware Templates, Tracking Mechanisms, Content ... doesn't look like a course and doesn't look like a reference system, what will it look like? What is the form of informal learning?Why am I not finding more opportunities to create front-end tools?I am a big believer in the ability of ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, December 4, 2006 - CommentsThe Paradox of Informal Learning (Form of Informal?)
... around informal learning makes me worried. By way of background for my comments, you may want to look back at:Informal Learning - Let's Get Real - Part II Informal Learning - Let's Get Real Elves, Measuring Results and Informal Learning Guidance Needed - Are we Misguided in Informal Learning and ... Informal Learning is Too Important to Leave to ChanceI just saw two posts on Informal Learning that made helped me to realize the dilemma. First, was Informal Learning on ... kinds of tools that he's provided that support informal learning: Structured OTJ Checklists, Knowledge Guides, ...
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